Español Intensivo: Intermedio + (B90005)

General information

Type:	OP	Curs:	5	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 1	Francesco Spinoglio	Spanish Section	ESP

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 2	Francesco Spinoglio	Spanish Section	ESP

To study this course students need to have achieved the B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference - CEFR).

To study this course students need to have achieved the B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference - CEFR).

In-class sessions: 40 hours

In an increasingly globalised world, business is not only undertaken at a regional level or solely with a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale. For this reason, developing versatile and multilingual communication skills is necessary along with a broad and varied cultural background.

Globalisation also affects the job market, there is ever greater competition and, in the case of students coming to ESADE ,the need to master Spanish is evidently important as it provides access to job markets in places such as in Latin America.

Similarly, mastering a language such as Spanish will allow students to take part in recruitment processes in Spanish-speaking companies and thus be able to find work in any part of the world.

With regard to the programme, learning and mastering Spanish will enable students an to attend classes, lectures and work groups delivered in Spanish as well as interact with their peers without difficulties.

The aim of this Intensive Intermediate+ Spanish course is to provide students with the sufficient resources needed to achieve an advanced level of the language, enabling them to interact relatively easily in different situations.

Students will be able to develop learning strategies appropriate for their level and be able to converse with native speakers at an appropriate rhythm and speed.

Taking advantage of the immersive situation in which students find themselves, this course also aims to enable students to fully integrate in local social, cultural and academic life, participating actively and sharing spaces with faculty, classmates and others in their social setting.

By completing this level, students are expected to be able to:
- Communicate effectively in day-to-day private and professional settings.
- Understand the key ideas found in clear and simple texts written in standard language, whether in the academic or professional settings or during their free time.
- Produce simple and coherent written texts on topics they are familiar with or which are of interest to them.
- Describe their experiences, desires and aspirations.
- Describe how to do something, providing detailed instructions both orally and in writing.
- Justify an opinion and explain plans.
- Provide concrete information required in an interview or consultation.
- Interact easily in social situations.
- Understand the key ideas in complex texts, including technical ones, in their areas of specialisation.
- Know how to initiate both oral and written discourse.
- Develop an argument.
- Appropriately use linguistic and extra-linguistic strategies for cooperation.

1. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT - Revise content from the B1 level. - Narrate a story or an event. - Present an item of news. - Make a formal presentation on a topic of interest to the student. - Organise written and oral discourse. - Express feelings. - Express complaints. - Formally ask for and demand something. - Reject a prohibition. - Argue in favour or against an idea or opinion. - React to news. - Express partial agreement and disagreement in both a formal and informal tone. - Identify, describe and define objects, places and people. - Transmit information: forward a message when the information is in the present. - Write a formal letter.

2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT - Revise the most important content from the previous level. - Consolidation of the difference between the various past tenses: present perfect, past simple, imperfect and past perfect. - Present subjunctive: review. - Present perfect in the subjunctive: morphology and use. - Conditional phrases with "si". - Argumentative connectors. - Verbs with prepositions. - Por versus para. - Ser versus estar. - Relative clauses + prepositions. - Periphrasis with the infinitive, gerund and past participle. - Discourse organisers. - Markers for anecdotes. - Argumentative connectors. - Impersonal constructions.

3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT - Revise vocabulary related to homes, cities, professions and families. - History and society. - Politics and the economy. - Art and advertising. - Communications media: radio and television. - Literature and films. - Music. - New technologies (social media and internet). - Formal, administrative and legal texts. - The company: self-employed/salaried, job stability, fire someone, compensation, contract types (temporary, indefinite and permanent seasonal contracts). - Studies and professional careers. - Festivities and celebrations. - Customs and traditions.

4. CULTURAL AND SOCIO-LINGUISTIC CONTENT - Linguistic expressions related to the human body, colours, work, animals, number and the senses. - Social norms: invitations. - Notions of Spanish politics, society and economics.

The course will comply with the syllabus, carrying out interactive activities to facilitate students' learning.

The methodology applied in language classes and in Spanish, in particular, is as follows:

- Participatory sessions, giving priority to communicative aspects though without obviating grammar
- Greater emphasis on oral skills through presentations, class discussions and interactive activities between students, all in a comfortable setting that facilitates students' learning.
- Motivating students in class to encourage their participation and learning.

Gramática de uso del español. B1-B2 Editorial SM.

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 1	Francesco Spinoglio	Spanish Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 2	Francesco Spinoglio	Spanish Section