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

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three 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.

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH GRAMMAR

GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

Learn, improve, and practice the morph-syntax of the Spanish language.

PARTICULAR OBJECTIVES:

A) That the student acquires basic elements for communication in Spanish as a second language, through reading, writing, understanding and speaking

B) Correct existing poor linguistic habits as well as derivates of the interaction processes of communication

C) Express opinions, ideas, concerns and personal needs involved in acquisition of the language

D) Incorporate written composition as part of the course

METHODOLOGY:

The methodology applied in the Language School through the Spanish Department includes a combination of various methods:

•The Communicative (which emphasizes the interactive processes of communication)

•The Situational (where the student acquires the necessary tools to be able to function comfortably in daily situations)

•Personalized Instruction (which bases itself on the needs and objectives of each student in order to enrich their language acquisition and production)

•The Interactive (where the student interacts directly with the language and constructs his/her own way of learning, organizing and applying concepts

THEMATIC CONTENT:

Indicative present, regular and irregular verbs
Indicative imperfect, regular and irregular verbs
Indicative future, regular and irregular verbs
Conditional and its uses
Imperative, affirmative and negative command forms
Reflexive verbs
Reciprocal verbs
Verbs ser and estar
Prepositions
Personal pronouns: possessive, demonstrative and relative
Possessive, comparative and diminutive adjectives
Direct and indirect objects
Adverb and its uses
Gerunds: uses
Infinitive and its uses
Article and indefinite, uses
Si as conditional
Verb usage
Present subjunctive
Participle, regular and irregular verbs
Present perfect of indicative and its uses
Impersonal pronoun “se”
Passive voice using “ser”, participle and passive reflective
Relative pronouns: el que, la cual, los que, las que y lo que
Indicative pluperfect and its uses
Indicative future perfect and its uses
Use of present subjunctive in nominal, adverbial and adjectival clauses
Indefinites and the negatives
Subjunctive mode
Verbs that introduce subjunctives
Time
Use of infinitive with subject identity
Use of infinitive when subjects are distinct
Verbs that show indicative or subjunctive according to context
Mental activities in interrogative sentences
Impersonal sentence
Adverbial, temporal, concessive, final, conditional, causal and consecutive expressions