COURSE OBJECTIVE
The overall objective of this level is to enable students to communicate more accurately and in a more sophisticated manner. The focus is on vocabulary and grammar associated with commercial, professional, and academic situations.
This course has a double emphasis. The first focus is on active mastery of the following proficiency skills. The second focus is on grammar skills studied from a linguistic perspective, practiced in context, and recycled throughout the semester.
COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES
1. Requesting clarification
2. Establishing contact with a salesperson
3. Talking about character and states of mind
4. Giving information
5. Relating events
6. Soliciting and giving professional information
7. Expressing and justifying opinions
8. Giving orders and advice
9. Making recommendations
10. Indirect discourse
11. Academic, professional, and commercial vocabulary
12. Vocabulary associated with soccer and bull-fighting
13. Vocabulary unique to the different Spanish regions
14. Expressions to begin and conclude conversations
GRAMMAR OBJECTIVES
1. Review preterite and imperfect
2. Review of perfect tenses
3. Oral versus written language
4. Conditional tense
5. Past subjunctive
6. Conditional + subjunctive/ indicative
7. Connector words: entonces, luego, ¿no?, ¿no es así?
8. Costar, valer, and ser
9. Differences between: quiero, quería, quisiera, querría
10. Emphatic and metaphoric comparisons
11. Verbs of will and wishing + subjunctive
12. Verbs of opinion + subjunctive
13. Interjections
14. Negative words
15. Tener que, deber que, and hay que + infinitive
16. Future used as an imperative
17. Conjunctions of contingency + indicative/ subjunctive
18. Uses and meanings of impersonal forms of verbs: infinitive, gerund, and participle
EVALUATION
The student will be evaluated on daily oral and written exercises, classroom participation, a mid-term exam, and a final exam.
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