Superior Spanish Language

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understand all types of information expressed in standard language if it deals with familiar topics, whether in work, study, or leisure situations.
2. Describe experiences, events, desires, and aspirations, as well as briefly justify opinions or explain plans.
3. Establish social relationships through fluent, clear, and effective discourse.

UNIT CONTENTS 

Unit 1: Welcome
Expressing ongoing action.
Talking about our experience.
Contrasting before and now.
Selecting and comparing words.
Comparing ways of learning.
Defining and explaining.
Review of indicative tenses: present and past
Spatial markers of location and direction:
Temporal markers and constructions
Verbs of movement and prepositions of direction:
Frequency markers
The verb "soler" (to "simply" or "simply" in Spanish)
Reflexive verbs
Infinitive periphrases
Gerundive periphrases

Unit 2: Biology Study
Making plans and projects.
Expressing courtesy.
Expressing a request.
Making proposals and suggestions.
Expressing excuses.
Expressing hypotheses and conjectures.
Controlling communication: repeating,
questioning, summarizing, etc.
Review of indicative tenses: future and conditional.
Time markers and constructions.
Relationship of the conditional to the present: courtesy, wishes, and requests.
Formation and uses of the present and perfect subjunctive.
Discourse organizers.

Unit 3: On the road
Expressing purpose.
Expressing certainty and probability.
Expressing wishes.
Reacting to a wish.
Encouraging someone.
Expressing conditions.
Proposing solutions.
Ending structures.
Probability markers.
Indicative/Subjunctive correspondence.
Time markers and correspondences.
Formation and uses of the Imperf. and Plusc. Subjunctive.
Conditional structures.
Uses of the
Interrogatives: Why not...? What if...?
Constructions with Ojalá/ojalá que.
¡Que + present subjunctive!

Unit 4: He's my best friend
Expressing emotions
Talking about changes in people.
Expressing opinions and perceptions
Noun structures with verbs of feeling.
Causal structures:
Verbs of change and prepositions
Prepositional uses.
Verbs of feelings and prepositions:
Discourse organizers: in my opinion, from my point of view, in my way of seeing, in my opinion...

Unit 5: What are we doing this weekend?
Expressing goals and objectives
Proposing and accepting suggestions
Expressing impersonality
Arguing
Deducing information from context
Adjective or relative structures.
Structures with 'parecer' + subjunctive.
Mechanisms for expressing impersonality.
The passive voice with an agent and the reflexive passive.
Final structures
Speech organizers to summarize: In summary, in conclusion, ultimately, luckily...

Unit 6: I'm sending you a message
Explaining and defining
Talking about physical and emotional states
Talking about character
Expressing conditions
Giving advice and recommendations
Making proposals and suggestions
Formulating hypotheses
Ser and estar + adjectives. Adjectives with changing meanings.
Idiomatic phrases with ser and estar.
Conditional structures
Conditional markers
Other ways of expressing condition
Oral discourse organizers: well, nothing, 
so, luckily, so…

Unit 7: He told me that…
Giving and asking for information
Maintaining attention and asking for confirmation from our interlocutor
Referring to the words of others
Defining unfamiliar words or realities
Comparing words in several languages
Direct/indirect speech: formal changes
Relative structures.
Relative pronouns.
Pronominal Constructions
Comparative Structures
Resources for Intensification
Discourse Markers for Cooperation with the Interlocutor:
Yes? Yes? No? True? No? Look!