OBJECTIVE
This course is designed for those students who have completed four semesters of college level Spanish and have a solid working knowledge of Spanish. 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
Requesting clarification
Establishing contact with a salesperson
Talking about character and states of mind
Giving information
Relating events
Soliciting and giving professional information
Expressing and justifying opinions
Giving orders and advice
Making recommendations
Indirect discourse
Academic, professional, and commercial vocabulary
Vocabulary associated with soccer and bull-fighting
Vocabulary unique to the different Spanish regions
Expressions to begin and conclude conversations
GRAMMAR OBJECTIVES
Review preterite and imperfect
Review of perfect tenses
Oral versus written language
Conditional tense
Conditional + subjunctive/ indicative
Connector words: entonces, luego, ¿no?, ¿no es así?
Costar, valer, and ser
Differences between: quiero, quería, quisiera, querría
Emphatic and metaphoric comparisons
Verbs of will and wishing + subjunctive
Verbs of opinion + subjunctive
Conjunctions of contingency + indicative/ subjunctive
Interjections
Negative words
Uses and meanings of impersonal forms of verbs: infinitive, gerund, and participle
Tener que, deber que, and hay que + infinitive
Past subjunctive
Future used as an imperative
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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