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.

OBJECTIVE

In this course the students will work on their communicative strategies associated with the formal language, but also will conversationalâ€"syntactical structure-functions, lexical and semantics. With this, it will be inevitable to study the textual productionâ€"coherence, cohesion, and adecuationâ€"and they will perfect the skill associated with written and oral expression, along with reading and auditory comprehension.

AGENDA

1. Oration structure (I). Actualization and Generalization. Pronominal and expression uses of the impersonal.
2. Oration structure (II). Temporary/manners values of the verb.
3. Oration structure (III). The manners in some verbal periphrases.
4. Oration structure (IV). Grammatical structure of the sentences with ser, estar and other copulative verbs.
5. Oration structure (V). Value and uses of adjectives according to their position.
6. From the oration to the text. Adverbial, prepositional and conjunctional constructions. Values and uses.
7. The narrative and descriptive structure in written texts. The noun sentences with double constructed verbs. Relative sentences with indefinite antecedents. The informative structure in temporary sentences.
8. Argumentation and Counter Argumentation (I). Conditional, concessive and adversative sentences. Connectives.
9. Argumentation and Counter Argumentation (II). Causal, consecutive, ending and comparative sentences.
10. Objective texts and Modalized texts. Elative procedures in the syntactic and oration levels.