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 Language III

NOTE: The University of Deusto recommends to take this course together with Intermediate Spanish I and II.

DESCRIPTION AND AIMS
The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for them to develop their communicative competence from a high-intermediate level towards a low-advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The speaking skill will be emphasized by means weekly sessions devoted to oral Spanish, where students will need to make brief cultural presentations and participate in activities such as roleplays. All functional and grammar contents will be approached from a communicative perspective which will assume and value active participation of the students in the class at all times.

SYLLABUS

Functional and grammar contents:

- Narrating a conflict and talking about it.
- Expressing feelings and moods: Me da miedo/risa... + infinitive, me da miedo/risa... que +
subjunctive
- Explaining changes in mood, status, personality…: ponerse histérico, hacerse rico, volverse
loco
- Assessing behaviors and giving advice: Lo mejor es que + subjunctive.
- Identifying the goal of different written messages.
- Writing notes: thank-you notes, sorry notes, requests…
- Asking for objects, help, permission: ¿Tienes...? ¿Me dejas...? ¿Podrías...? ¿Te importaría...?
¿Puedo...?
- Use of indicative and subjunctive verbs in reported speech: reporting information (indicative)
and reporting requests and proposals (subjunctive)

METHODOLOGY
All grammar and functional contents will be integrated into activities within the framework of units with different topics: meeting other people, health…

Assignments will include brief compositions, daily homework and brief oral presentations.

Classes will be implemented with weekly visits to the multimedia laboratory, where students will have the chance to improve their pronunciation by means of the state-of-the-art software available to them.

ASSESSMENT
The final grade will be calculated according to the following grade breakdown:

Participation & attendance: 15%
Homework: 15%
Compositions: 15%
Test: 20 %
Oral section: 15 %
Final exam: 20%

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Textbook and workbook:
Martín Peris, E. y N. Sans Baulenas, Gente 2: Libro del Alumno y Libro de Trabajo. Barcelona, Difusión, 2004.

Other sources of material to be used in class:

- Arnal, C. y A. Ruiz de Garibay, Escribe en español. Madrid, SGEL, 1996.
- Ascarrunz Gilman, G. y C. Benito-Vessels, Horizontes: Cultura y Literatura. Boston, Heinle
& Heinle, 1997.
- Baralo, M., Gibert, B. Y B. Moreno de los Ríos, Preparación Certificado Inicial Español
Lengua Extranjera, Madrid, Edelsa, 1994.
- Bretz, M.L., Dvorak, T. y C. Kirschner, Pasajes: Lengua. Boston, McGraw Hill, 1997.
- Bretz, M.L., Dvorak, T. y C. Kirschner, Pasajes: Cultura. Boston, McGraw Hill, 1997.
- Cabrerizo, M.A., M.L. Gómez, and A.M. Ruiz: Sueña 2: Libro del alumno y cuaderno de
ejercicios, Anaya, Madrid, 2001.
- Castro, F. Uso de la gramática española. Nivel Intermedio. Madrid, Edelsa, 2000.
- Cerrolaza, M., Cerrolaza, O. y B. Llovet, Planet@ 2: Libro del alumno y Libro de referencia
gramatical. Madrid, Edelsa, 1999.
- Pinilla, Raquel y Rosanna Acquaroni, ¡Bien dicho! Ejercicios de expresión oral. Madrid,
SGEL, 2000.
- Rodríguez Rodríguez, María, Escucha y aprende. Ejercicios de comprensión auditiva. Madrid,
SGEL, 2003.
- Sánchez, A., Mª T. Espinet y P. Cantos: Cumbre. Nivel Intermedio. Madrid, SGEL,1996.

 Notes:
- Requirement for “Spanish II: Intermediate III”: “Spanish II: Intermediate II” or equivalent
level.
- Since class attendance is essential for the acquisition of the four skills, student attendance will
be daily checked. Absences might affect the students’ final grade.
- The grading system, as well as the assessment standards, will be the same as those used in the
U.S.A.