Level teaching hours: 240 hours.

General objectives:

At this level, you will be able to understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, even if they are of a technical nature, as long as they are within your field and specialization. You will be able to interact with native speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and naturalness, so that communication is effortless for the interlocutors. In addition, you will be able to produce clear and detailed texts on a variety of topics, as well as defend a point of view on general issues, indicating the pros and cons of different options.

As a social agent, the student carries out usual transactions of daily life, beyond basic needs, including areas such as commerce, hospitality, public services and contingency management. Participates and interacts socially in work, academic or social situations, exchanging opinions on general or personal topics and reaching an adequate level of fluency. Can deal with oral and written texts related to his/her tastes and preferences, as well as specialized documents, and identify the main ideas in order to make value judgments.

As an intercultural speaker, he/she is aware of cultural diversity and approaches the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries in order to avoid prejudices, clichés or ethnocentric positions. They broaden their cultural, sociocultural and linguistic knowledge to approach new realities and reinforce their sensitivity towards the culture of Spain and Latin America. Accesses cultural references from different periods and perspectives, incorporates in practice the characteristics of social norms and conventions, and develops in intercultural situations of moderate complexity, applying techniques that facilitate his role as an intermediary.

As an autonomous learner, identifies, controls and flexibilizes the factors that influence the learning process, recognizing progress and shortcomings. Participates actively in the selection and planning of learning tasks and language use, as well as in group work. Selects appropriate resources to consult, practice or reinforce their knowledge.

Specific objectives:

Reading Comprehension

Listening comprehension

1. Read with a high degree of independence, adapting style and using an active vocabulary, even in the face of infrequent idioms.

Search quickly in long texts to locate details and understand the content of news, reports or articles on different professional topics.

3. Understand long and complex instructions, including all details, reading the text several times if necessary.
  1. Understand any type of discourse on current topics from native speakers in personal, social, academic or professional contexts, capturing most of the information.
  2. Understand the main ideas of speeches with standard-level linguistic complexity, as well as lectures, talks and other academic or professional presentations, even when they use complex language, are extensive and present explicit markers.

Oral expression

Written expression
  1. Make clear descriptions and presentations, expanding on ideas with relevant examples.
  2. Use extended arguments to defend points of view, pointing out advantages and disadvantages and applying appropriate emphasis on important issues.
  3. Express opinions and statements on most topics with a high degree of fluency and spontaneity, without generating tension or discomfort in the listener.
  1. Write clear and detailed texts on various topics, evaluating the resources used.
  2. Write complete descriptions of events and experiences, real or imaginary, as well as reviews of films, books or plays, following a clear structure and respecting the rules of the chosen genre.
  3. To prepare essays and reports that develop arguments, providing relevant details and reasoning, and synthesizing information from different sources.

Contents: what will you learn?

Functional contents

Grammatical contents

Textual and lexical content

Cultural contents

- Ask for and give advice.

- To formally request or demand.

- Verify reality and make value judgments.

- Expressing hypotheses in the past.

- Express possible and unlikely conditions in the present and in the future.

- Expressing irregular conditions in the past.

- Express feelings, tastes and emotions.

- Rectify a piece of information.

- Talking about appearances.

- Evaluate information and give opinions.

- Make comparisons or establish differences.

- Describe through imaginary comparisons.

- Define and describe.

- Value actions, states, objects and facts.

- Judging.

- To express an imminent action.

- To express an obligation.

- Express an assumption.

- To express the beginning and end of an action.

- To express the repetition of an action.

- To express the continuity of an action.

- To express an action in progress.

- Expressing an opinion and evaluating a film.

- Value something quantitative.

- Contrast opinions.

- Give an opinion taking into account whether the information is known or unknown to the interlocutor.

- Trying to convince someone.

- To state the reasons for something.

- To agree with someone.

- To tell someone that they are wrong.

- To tell someone that they are right.

- Identify and describe objects, places and people.

- Provide secondary information.

- Talking about something by highlighting it and making objections.

- Ask for information about whether you know something or someone.

- Speech referring to the past.

- Replay a conversation.

- Express surprise, disbelief and indifference.

- Convey and summarize information.

- Give instructions to carry out a claim.

- Describe objects detailing their characteristics to differentiate them from others.

- Complaining, expressing indignation, politely rejecting a proposal, expressing finality.

- Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo: morphology and use.

- Contrast of present and imperfect subjunctive.

- Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo.

- Conditional structures.

- Indicative and subjunctive verb agreement.

- Verb parecerse.

- Degrees of comparison.

- Comparative expressions.

- Double participle.

- The passive voice.

- Being and being: changes in meaning.

- Descriptive expressions with ser and estar.

- Verbal periphrases.

- Verbs of change.

- Concessive subordinate clauses.

- Reduplicative structures.

- Adjective relative clauses.

- Relative pronouns and adverbs.

- The indirect style.

- Time correlation.

- Closing sentences.

- Transmission from indirect to direct style.

- Health.

- Health precautions for travel.

- History-related vocabulary.

- Formal, administrative and legal texts.

- Gastronomy and the senses.

- Lexicon related to family and personal relationships.

- Lexicon related to the carnival party.

- Lexicon related to family and personal relationships.

- Lexicon related to the carnival party.

- Art-related vocabulary.

- Lexicon for critical description and appraisal.

- Idiomatic expressions in plural.

- Informative text.

- Lexicon related to television.

- Film-related vocabulary.

- Lexicon related to sports.

- Leisure and free time.

- Lexicon for conducting an auction.

- New means of communication: forum, chat, e-mail.

- Lexicon related to travel, airport and luggage.

- The health system.

- Modernist architecture.

- History of Spain.

- Exile.

- Spanish gastronomy.

- Stereotypes about Hispanics.

- The carnivals of Cadiz.

- The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

- Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

- Famous television personalities.

- Hispanic films.

- Spanish cinema.

- Spanish film director: Pedro Almodóvar.

- Bolivia.

- Leisure for young people.

- Volunteering and NGOs.

- New technologies in education: the school of the future.

- The controversy between the terms Castilian and Spanish.

- Announcements and news.