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

Beginning

There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Elementary Spanish LanguageIII
NOTE: The University of Deusto recommends to take this course together with Elementary 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 an upper elementary level towards a low-intermediate 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, interviews, etc. 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 past experiences
- Expressing wishes
- More on giving advice
- Describing illnesses and symptoms
- Locating and action in time
- Speaking about habits and circumstances in the past
- Locating actions in the present and the past
- Recommendations
- Giving instructions
- Describing a scene in the past and the present
- Speaking about future actions and situations
- Expressing conditions
- Summarizing an argument
- Formulating hypotheses
- The Present Perfect and the Preterite: uses
- Me /te / le / nos / os / les gustaría + Infinitive
- More uses of ser and estar
- Ya / todavía no + Present Perfect
- The Past of estar + Gerund
- The Imperfect: some uses
- Time markers
- Placement of DO , IO and Reflexive Pronouns
- Conditionals: si + Present, Future
- The Future: forms and some uses
- Seguramente / probablemente / posiblemente / seguro que / supongo que + Future

METHODOLOGY
All grammar and functional contents will be integrated into activities within the framework of units with different topics: jobs, history, a publicity campaign, telephoning…

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%
Tests: 20 %
Oral section: 15 %
Final exam: 20%

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Textbook and workbook:
Corpas, J., García, E., Garmendia, A. & Soriano, C. Aula Internacional 2: Libro del Alumno. Barcelona, Difusión, 2005.

Other sources of material to be used in class:

-Arbonés, C., V. González, E. López y M. Llobera. Así me gusta 1: Libro del alumno y cuaderno de actividades. Cambridge. CUP. 2003.
-Arnal, C. y A. Ruiz de Garibay. Escribe en español. Madrid, SGEL. 2001.
-Bretz, M. L., T. Dvorak y C. Kirschner. Pasajes: Lengua. McGraw-Hill. 1997.
-Castro, F. Uso de la gramática española. Niveles elemental e intermedio. Madrid, Edelsa, 2000.
-Cerrolaza, M., O. Cerrolaza y B. Llovet. Planet@ 1: Libro del alumno y Libro de referencia gramatical. Madrid, Edelsa. 1998.
-Cerrolaza, M., O. Cerrolaza y B. Llovet. Planet@ 2: Libro del alumno y Libro de referencia gramatical. Madrid, Edelsa. 1999.
-Domínguez, P., P. Bazo y J. Herrera. Actividades comunicativas: Libro del alumno. Madrid, Edelsa. 1995.
-Fernández, J., R. Fente y J. Siles. Curso intensivo de español-ejercicios prácticos: niveles elemental e intermedio. Madrid, SGEL. 1999.
-Knorre, M., T. Dorwick, A. Pérez-Gironés, W. Glass y H. Villarreal. Puntos de Partida. McGraw-Hill. 1997.
-Martínez, L. y M. L. Sabater. Socios 2: Libro del alumno. Barcelona, Difusión. 2000.
-Miquel, L. y N. Sans. Rápido: Libro del alumno y cuaderno de ejercicios. Barcelona, Difusión: 1998.
-Palomino, M. A.. Dual: pretextos para hablar. Madrid, Edelsa. 1998.
-Pinilla, R. y R. Acquaroni. ¡Bien dicho! Madrid, SGEL. 2000.
-Rodríguez Rodríguez, M., Escucha y aprende. Ejercicios de comprensión auditiva. Madrid, SGEL, 2003.

 Notes:
- Requirement for “Spanish I: Elementary III”: “Spanish I: Elementary 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.