High Advanced Spanish
DESCRIPTION AND AIMS
The main goal of the course is to provide students with the appropriate atmosphere for students to develop their communicative competence from an advanced level towards a high advanced one. This will be achieved through practice involving the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and through the focus on specific grammar aspects in an advanced context. The course will specifically address focus on subordinate clauses and on conjunctions, both of which will ultimately help students speak a fluent and coherent Spanish.
SYLLABUS
Grammar and functional contents:
- The use of present and imperfect subjunctive to express wishes related to the present or the past.
- Expressing wishes that are either difficult to materialize or imposible: Conditional tense + infinitive / Conditional tense + Imperfect subjunctive
- Relative clauses. The use of prepositions and articles in relative clauses.
- The use of indicative vs. subjunctive tenses in relative clauses.
- “Aunque” with indicative and subjunctive tenses.
- Reported speech (present and past).
- The conditional clause with “SI”. The use of the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive in the conditional clause in order to express impossible, unlikely and unreal conditions in the present and in the past.
- The use of subjunctive tenses in special conditional sentences: expressing minimal, remote, unwanted and negative conditions ( CON TAL DE QUE, EXCEPTO QUE, SALVO QUE, COMO, EN EL CASO DE QUE, …)
- Time clauses with indicative and subjunctive tenses: mientras que, cuando, todas las veces que, cada vez que,…
- “Antes de” / “Después de” with infinitive and subjunctive tenses.
- Time agreement in noun clauses in order to express wish and hope.
- Words expressing wish: “Ojalá”, “Quién” and “A ver si”.
- The use of subjunctive tenses in independent clauses.
METHODOLOGY
All grammar and functional contents will be integrated into activities within the framework of units with different topics. Both theoretical explanations and practical work will be combined in the class.
Assignments will include daily homework. There will be a final exam and several midterm tests.
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: 20%
Homework: 20%
Tests: 30 %
Final exam: 30%
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Instructor’s own material.
Notes:
- The grading system, as well as the assessment standards, will be the same as those used in the U.S.A.
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