This course is designed for students who have had 3 semesters of university-level Spanish. Emphasis is on applying the skills acquired at the elementary and intermediate levels to further improve oral and written skills. The methodology applied is communicative and encompasses assignments which include grammar reviews, cultural readings on Spain and debates which require use of practical and communicative vocabulary.
OBJECTIVES
The principal objective of this course is to develop the skills the students acquired during intermediate level Spanish courses, and with the improvement of the students’ speaking and writing abilities, achieve an advanced level of communicative competence, sufficient to use in Spain in daily situations. For this, we will use a communicative approach focused on grammar and practical vocabulary. Additionally, lectures relating to Hispanic culture and the viewing of the movie “Ay, Carmela,” which will be discussed in class, will complement the rest of the course material.
EVALUATION
There will be 2 tests (2 x 20, 40% of the final grade) about the material presented in class. There will also be an oral exam (15%) over the material in the book. A final written exam (25%) will cover all of the content of the course. In this kind of class, daily work is very important (turn in your homework on time) and active participation in class counts for 20% of the final grade.
WEEKLY PROGRAM
1. Introduction to the course and book Sueña 2.
2. Lesson 6: Looking at the future. Scope 1: What will happen?
- Functions: Speaking about future events, describing routes.
- Grammar: simple future: forms and uses; compound future, forms and uses. Supongo que / creo que / seguramente / seguro que + future.
3. Scope 2: What will we do tomorrow?
- Functions: making plans, advising, giving instructions.
- Grammar: imperative: forms and use with pronouns; present subjunctive: forms; temporary subordinates; sentences using the conditional.
- Vocabulary: vacation, tourism, gastronomy
4. Lesson 7: Taking care of body and spirit.
- Functions: Expressing states of movement and sentiments; expressing finality, concession, and argumentation.
- Grammar: sentences with substantive subordinates; concessive subordinate sentences
;subordinate final sentences- Vocabulary: sports and public events.
5. Scope 2: “Es bueno que escuches al música.”
- Functions: express judgments and evaluations; express agreement and disagreement; express certainty.
- Grammar: ser, estar, parecer + expression of opinion and expression of certainty; substantive subordinates (creer / no creer, paracer / no parecer, etc.)
- Vocabulary: music
6. Review of lessons 6 and 7. EXAM 1.
7. Lesson 8: “Hoy ceno con mi jefe.” Scope 1: “¿Sería tan amable de…?”
- Functions: express desire or request; ask permission.
- Grammar: verb tenses for expressions of courtesy: conditional: forms and uses; imperative: uses.
- Vocabulary: shops, public services, hotels.
8. Scope 2: “Haz un curso de informática.”
-Functions: to advise; the necessary objective and subjective
- Grammar: linguistic structures the express advice: conditional + imperfect subjunctive; relative pronouns
-Vocabulary: work, labor vocabulary
9. Lesson 9: “¿Habrá alguien en casa?” Scope 1: “Será la casa ideal.”
- Functions: express and hypothesize; talk about wishes and hopes.
- Grammar: quizás, tal vez, puede que, a lo mejor + subjunctive o indicative; gustar, odiar, encantar, fastidiar, odiar + subjunctive / indicative
infinitivo; ojalá; me gustaría que + subjunctive.
- Vocabulary: the house
10. Scene 2: “Me extraña que haya llegado tan pronto.”
- Functions: to talk of circumstances that surround an event or fact; express disbelief, surprise, satisfaction, happiness, dissatisfaction, and disagreement.
-Grammar: preterit perfect of subjunctive; final sentences, causales, consecutive, conditional and concessives (present and past), circumstantial connections.
-Vocabulary: City Furniture Shop
11. Review of lessons 8 & 9. Movie, “Ay, Carmela.” Exercises about the movie. EXAM 2.
12. Lesson 10: “Tenemos nuevas noticias” Scope 1: Telephone.
- Functions: transmit words to others.
- Grammar: indirect manner.
- Vocabulary: means of communication
13. Scope 2: “Dicen que…”
- Functions: summarize and identify the principal ideas of a story.
- Grammar: express impersonality; passives; se + 3rd person.
- Vocabulary: means of communication
14. Final review.
15. FINAL EXAM.
Each week we will read a chapter of the novella: La llamada de la Habana, Monday we will summarize the reading. The book will be part of the ORAL EXAM. The date of the oral exam will be confirmed by the professor.
Bibliografía
Álvarez, M.ª A. et ali. (2001), Sueña 2.Libro del alumno, Madrid: Anaya.
Álvarez, M.ª A. et ali. (2001), Sueña 2.Cuaderno de ejercicios, Madrid: Anaya.
Miquel, L. y Sans, N. La llamada de la Habana, Barcelona, Difusión.
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