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

High Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five 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.

PROGRAM

1. Uses of the perfect tense; conversation: “¿qué has hecho…?” “¿Alguna vez has…?”

2. Accentuation I: “agudas”, “llanas”, and “esdrújulas”; theory and practice

3. Contrasting imperfect/present; dictation

4. Resources for expressing opinion; contrasting indefinite/imperfect

5. Accentuation II: dipthongs, tripthongs, and “hiatos”; theory

6. Accentuation, group exercises; dictation

7. Prepositions dealing with place; locations

8. Dictation; conversation: “Perdone, ¿sabe si hay un banco por aquí”

9. Expression of probability (not subjunctive); listening

10. Accentuation III: diacritical tilde; creative dictation

11. Verbs of movement + preposition; conversation: organizing the zoo

12. Accentuation: exercises; adjectives and possessive pronouns

13. Comparatives and superlatives; dictation

14. Imperatives; listening

15. Conversation: resources for advising

16. Por and para

17. Indefinite pronouns; exclamatory sentences