Courses objective: course is designed for those students who have completed four or more semesters of university level Spanish and have a solid working knowledge of Spanish. The overall objective of this level is to enable students to communicate more accurately. The focus is on vocabulary and grammar associated with business, professional, and academic situations
Syllabus: 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 Objective:
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
Academic, professional, and business 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
Past subjunctive
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
Interjections
Negative words
Tener que, deber que, and hay que + infinitive
Future used as an imperative
Conjunctions of contingency + indicative/ subjunctive
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, and final exam.
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