Advanced Spanish Language

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. To provide students with the means to interact with native speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and naturalness.
2. To enable students to participate in conversation or debate, demonstrating various cooperative skills.
3. To teach students to produce fully understandable texts, both oral and written, on any topic related to their interests.

UNIT CONTENTS 

UNIT 1: How is your Spanish?
Talking about identity
Talking about origins
Talking about what I like
Giving an opinion and asking for opinions
Talking about habits and customs
Describing
The verb "gustar" (pronominal verbs)
Regular and irregular verbs
The verb "soler" (to use to)
Reflexive verbs
Discourse organizers
Communication situations

UNIT 2: Now, yesterday, or tomorrow?
Talking about what we do
Expressing actions in the present
Expressing actions in the future
Expressing actions in the past
Present Indicative
Verbal periphrases
Future
Past tenses: he cantado / canté / canba / había cantado
Time markers
Verbs of change

UNIT 3: Please speak up. Ask for something
Give orders and instructions
Give advice
Grant permission
Convince, persuade
Imperative (regular and irregular verbs)
Negative imperative
Lexicalized imperatives

UNIT 4: Who are we and where are we?
Making descriptions
Defining
Identifying
Locating in space and time
Verbs to be and to be: general and specific uses
To be and to be + adjectives. Adjectives with changes of meaning.
Idiomatic phrases with To be and to be
Relative pronouns: que, quien, el cual, el que

UNIT 5: Have a good time
Expressing wishes
Cheering someone on
Thanking for wishes
Present and Imperfect Subjunctive
I want that/I hope that + Subjunctive
Constructions with Ojalá
¡Que + Present subjunctive!
Quien/Si + Imperfect Subj.

UNIT 6: Maybe...
Expressing politeness
Expressing hypothesis
Expressing possibility
Expressing doubt
Expressing surprise
Expressing concern
Simple conditional
Probability markers
Present and imperfect subjunctive
Conditional clauses
Conditional markers

UNIT 7: I'm glad you're here
Expressing agreement and disagreement
Giving an opinion and evaluation
Reacting to a fact
Expressing preferences
Expressing physical and mental sensations
Expressing feelings
Noun structures with verbs of understanding, perception, and communication
Structures for evaluation and reaction
Structures for influence
Discourse organizers
Indicative/subjunctive alternation

UNIT 8: What did he say to you?
Telling what others say, have said, or have said. Indirect Speech
Direct/Indirect Speech: Formal Changes
Correlation of Tenses
Indicative/Subjunctive Alternation
Comparative Structures:
Resources for Intensification

UNIT 9: Plans for the Future
Relating Events in Time
Expressing the Moment in Which the Action Takes Place
Talking About Future Plans
Expressing Cause
Expressing Purpose
Temporal Clauses
Causal and Final Clauses
Concessive and Consecutive Clauses
Indicative/Subjunctive Alternation
Temporal, Causal, and Final Markers

UNIT 10: Relating
Arguing
Relating Ideas
Narrating/Telling
Referring to Something or Someone
Pronouns
Mechanisms for Expressing Impersonality
Prepositions
Prepositional Verbs
Oral and Written Discourse Markers