Course Description
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Course Name
Practice of Oral Skills
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Host University
Universidad de Salamanca
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Location
Salamanca, Spain
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Area of Study
Linguistics, Spanish
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Language Level
Intermediate, Advanced, Superior
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Recommended U.S. Semester Credits1
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units2
Hours & Credits
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Overview
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
To help students improve their oral proficiency skills (listening, speaking). Students will be required to put into practice the grammar that they are learning in their formal level-specific grammar class.GENERAL OBJECTIVES
? To improve the communicative capacity and oral interactions in daily situations.
? To speak about things, people, real places, and abstract feelings.
? To practice and improve pronunciation, intonation, and fluidity of spoken discourse.
? To practice the mechanisms of summarization of past events and description of developing events.CONTENT
1.- To ask for and provide information: location of places, people, and public services.2.- Description of people, places, and objects
3.- Making an appointment
4.- Having phone conversations
5.- Dialogues in daily situations
5.1.- In a bar/café
5.2.- Shopping
5.3.- In a restaurant
5.4.- In a travel agency6.- Dialogues in public places or places of public service
6.1.- Post Office
6.2.- In a bank
6.3.- In a hospital
6.4.- En la comisaría de policía
6-5.- En la Secretaría de la Universidad7.- Expressing an opinion and showing agreement and disagreement
8.- Actions and circumstances completed in the past
9.- Indirectly expressing information orally from others
10.- Expressing feelings, needs, and desires
11.- Suggestions, instructions, and commands
12.- Reactions to information given
13.- Estimating and expressing doubt or probability
Course Disclaimer
Courses and course hours of instruction are subject to change.
Eligibility for courses may be subject to a placement exam and/or pre-requisites.