Español: Intermedio+ (B90404)

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 be able to take part in this course, students have to have achieved the B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference, CEFR).

To be able to take part in this course, students need to have a basic knowledge of Spanish: B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference, CEFR).

In-class sessions: 40 hours

In an increasingly globalised world, business is not only undertaken at the regional level or solely within a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale. Consequently, people need to develop versatile and multilingual communication skills along with a broad and varied cultural background.

Globalisation also affects the job market, and competition is more intense. For foreign students visiting us, mastering a third language such as Spanish is fundamental, opening doors to job markets here and in Latin America.

For this reason, mastering a language such as Spanish will allow students to participate in job recruitment processes in Spanish-speaking firms and opt for jobs anywhere in the world.

In terms of the programme, learning and mastering Spanish will also enable students to sit classes, lectures and participate in groups carried out in Spanish, as well as interact comfortably with their classmates.

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 efficiently in day-to-day situations related to professional and private life.
- Understand the principal ideas of clear, simple texts in standard language related to work, study and leisure activities.
- Produce simple, coherent texts on family topics and others that are of personal interest.
- Describe experiences, events, desires and aspirations.
- Describe how to do something, giving detailed instructions both orally and in writing.
- Justify an opinion and explain plans.
- Provide concrete information required in an interview or a consultation.
- Easily and comfortably interact in social settings.
- Understand the key ideas in complex and even theoretical texts, so long as these are within their area of professional specialisation.
- Know how to imitate oral and written discourse.
- Develop an argumentative discussion.
- Appropriately use linguistic and extra-linguistic cooperation strategies.

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 agreement, 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.

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