Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

ADVANCED SPANISH GRAMMAR

METHODOLOGY:

The methodology applied at the Language Center by the Department of Spanish includes various techniques:

• Communicative - emphasizing interaction in communication
• Situational - students acquire the necessary tools to react comfortably to daily circumstances
• Personalized instruction
• Independent learning - students interact directly with the language and learn at their own pace, organizing and applying concepts

TOPICS REVIEWED:

Grammatical tenses
Present
Preterit
Simple imperfect/co-preterit
Future
Indicatives
Perfect present
Perfect preterit
Perfect compounds
Pluperfects
Perfect future
Past/imperfect
Subjunctives
Perfect present
Perfect compounds
Perfect pluperfect
Simple conditionals
Compound conditionals
Imperatives

GENERAL:
• The alphabet
• Rules of accentuation
• Punctuation
• Demonstratives
• Abbreviation
• Negative prefixes
• Suffixes
• Compound words

SUBSTANTIVES:
• Gender
• Number
• Plural formation
• Gender and professions

ADJECTIVES:
• Adjective
• Plural formation

PRONOUNS:
• Pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns

VERBS:
• “Ser” and “estar”
• Past participle
• Gerunds
• Verbal periphrasis

ADVERBS:
• Adverbs
• Adverbs ending in “-mente”

PREPOSITIONS:
• Prepositions (and idiomatic prepositions)

OTHER:
• Interesting grammatical links

Unit I
Review all tenses and verbal modes
• Modes: indicative, imperative, conditional, subjunctive, infinitive, gerund, participle
• Tenses:
Simple: present, preterit, imperfect, conditional, future
Compound: perfect present, pluperfect, perfect future, perfect conditional

Unit II
Grammatical Details
• Use of: articles, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections
• Spelling: accentuation, punctuation, abbreviations

Unit III
Commercial language: letters, professions, resumes, etc

Unit IV
Assignments, compositions, and editing
• Poetry �" use of metaphors
• Prose �" narrations, descriptions, essays, etc
• Biographies
• Interviews
• Reports
• Articles
• Plays
• Translations
• Etc.

Unit V
Textbook