Intermediate Spanish Language

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. Establish social relationships with Spanish speakers with a sufficient degree of naturalness and fluency.
2. Participate in a conversation or debate, demonstrating various cooperative skills.
3. Produce and interpret oral and written texts related to topics of personal interest.
 

UNIT CONTENTS 

1 Hello, how are you?
Talking about identity
Talking about origins
Greeting and saying goodbye
Talking about tastes and preferences
Giving an opinion and asking for an opinion
The verb "to be called"
Interrogative pronouns and adjectives
The verb "to like", "to prefer" ...
Verbs of opinion

2 My house was...

Talking about common actions in the present and past
Expressing actions in the future
Expressing actions in the past
Present indicative
Estar + gerund
Verb tenses and structures for the future and the past
The verb "soler"

3 Be careful!

Making requests
Giving orders and instructions
Giving advice
Asking, granting, and denying permission
Convincing, persuading
Imperative
Negative imperative
Lexicalized imperatives
Verbs of influence
Personal pronouns

4 Where are you from and How are you?
Making descriptions
Defining
Identifying
Locating in space and time
Verbs to be and to be:
Relative pronouns and adverbs
Alternative subjunctive/indicative
Differences between is/there are
Prepositions and adverbs of spatial and temporal location

5 Perhaps and hopefully
Expressing wishes
Expressing feelings
Encouraging someone to do something
Making proposals and invitations
Showing gratitude
Verbs and expressions of desire
Verbs of feeling
Alternative subjunctive/indicative/infinitive
Conditional tense

6 I like receiving gifts
Expressing agreement and disagreement
Making assessments
Supporting or refuting the opinions of others
Reacting to a fact
Expressing preferences
Expressing physical and mental sensations
Noun structures: To be/to be/to seem + adjective/adverb/noun
Alternative indicative/subjunctive/infinitive
Causal structures: because, it's that, like...

7 When I grow up...
Relating events in time
Expressing the moment in which the action takes place
Talking about plans and projects
Temporal structures
Alternative indicative/subjunctive
When and other time markers.