Intensive Spanish: Advanced (2225.YR.003290.2)

General information

Type:	OPT	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 1	Joaquin Boyero Merino	Sección Español	ESP

To be able to take part in this course, students have to have achieved the B2 level (Common European Framework of Reference, CEFR).

To be able to take part in this course, students have to have achieved the B2 level (Common European Framework of Reference, CEFR).

Every class session includes activities to be carried out outside of class to help students assimilate the content through practice.

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 Advanced 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, especially in the business context.

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.

1. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT - Revise content from the B2 level. - Make comparisons with complex structures. - Express conditions in the present, past and future. - Give advice and make suggestions. - Forward messages. - Forward orders. - Reproduce a conversation. - Persuade and convince. - Assess the characteristics of a person, action or process. - Organise written and spoken discourse. - Connect ideas in a text. - Structure ideas in specific texts. - Argue for and against something. - Refute ideas. - Counter an argument. - Express total and partial agreement and disagreement. - Summarise texts. - Give and follow complex instructions. - Clearly explain the steps in a process. - Explain causes and consequences.

2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT - Comparative and concessive phrases. - Conditional phrases: impossible or improbable conditional, hypothetical conditional in the past. - Subjunctive imperfect: review. - Structures with the subjunctive. - Reported speech: when the original message is expressed as an imperative or in the present subjunctive. - Composite conditional: morphology and use. - Pluperfect subjunctive: morphology and use. - Verbal periphrasis. - Prepositional phrases. - Adverbial phrases. - Connectors: to counter arguments. - Meta-textual discourse markers.

3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT - History and society. - Politics and the economy. - Art and advertising. - Communications media: radio and television. - Literature and films. - Music. - Sports. - New technologies. - Formal, administrative and legal texts. - The company. - Studies and professional careers. - Festivities and celebrations. - Customs and traditions.

4. CULTURAL CONTENT - Social structures in Spain and Latin America. - Folklore: typical objects, music, dance, festivals. - Compliments. - Stereotypes. - Bullfighting in language. - Set phrases and sayings/proverbs.

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: teoría y práctica C1-C2. Editorial SM.

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 1	Joaquin Boyero Merino	Sección Español