Level teaching hours: 280 hours.
General objectives:
At this level, you will be able to understand a wide variety of long texts with a certain degree of difficulty, recognizing also the implicit meanings they contain. You will be able to express yourself fluently and spontaneously, without obvious effort to find the right expression. You will make flexible and effective use of language for social, academic and professional purposes, and will be able to produce clear, well-structured and detailed texts on topics of a certain complexity, showing a correct use of the mechanisms of organization, articulation and cohesion of the text.
As a social agent, the student carries out transactions of all kinds and communicates fluently, providing evaluations that avoid possible confusion in the listener. Participates in conversations of different topics and complexity, capturing implicit ideas and nuancing the meaning. Can deal with oral and written texts, regardless of their subject matter or complexity, and is able to continue an unfinished discourse. Identifies main ideas and establishes coherent interrelationships to convey content in a meaningful way to others.
As an intercultural speaker, he/she takes advantage of cultural diversity as a source of enrichment of his/her intercultural competence, initiating research and applying techniques to interpret new realities, incorporating pluricultural and linguistic knowledge. Integrates artistic and socio-political movements and events in Spain and Latin America, using their critical and analytical skills. Analyzes and maintains a critical and comprehensive position on the values and behaviors of Spanish-speaking countries, relating them to their own culture. Successfully resolves complex transactions arising from cultural misunderstandings and takes the initiative as a mediator between their own culture and that of Spain and Latin America.
As an autonomous learner, consciously and autonomously organizes his/her learning of Spanish and other languages, taking the initiative in the search for resources. Takes advantage of learning resources both individually and in work groups. Plans, creates, designs and evaluates tasks to get the most out of learning and communicative situations, both inside and outside the classroom.
Specific objectives:
Reading Comprehension |
Listening comprehension |
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1. Understand long texts on different topics, reading several times the most complex parts in order to grasp all the details. 2. Understand long and complex texts of social, professional or academic life, identifying subtle details, attitudes and opinions, both implicit and explicit. 3. Understand all types of correspondence, occasionally resorting to the dictionary when necessary. 4. Follow long and complex instructions on the operation of machines or the application of new procedures. |
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Oral expression |
Written expression |
2. Express oneself fluently, using appropriate intonation to accurately convey nuances of meaning. 3. Use interjections correctly and respond spontaneously and effortlessly. |
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Contents: what will you learn?
Functional contents |
Grammatical contents |
Textual and lexical content |
Cultural content |
Strategic content |
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- To value and emphasize someone's attitude or behavior. - Tell an anecdote. - Describe in detail: the portrait. - Describe by means of comparisons. - Reliving a memory. - Narrate and describe the past. - Reminiscing about a character. - Participate in a debate. - Expressing wishes and curses. - Expressing feelings. - Influencing others. - Give orders in a direct and attenuated manner. - Grant permission. - Giving orders and instructions. - Express relationships of contemporaneity between actions. - Establish relationships of anteriority and posteriority. - Give your opinion and make a critique. - Intervene in a debate. - To refer to something. - To express one's partial agreement. - Trying to convince someone. - Express insistence and intensity that facilitates the desired results. - To present or take into account a fact. - Characterize and identify people, places and things. - To ask and answer for the existence or non-existence of something or someone. - Conveying what a person has said. - Interpret and reproduce other people's words. - Convey information taking into account different pragmatic elements. - Justify and support an opinion with weighty arguments of authority. - Express what is considered possible or probable. - To express what is considered possible but distant. - Evoking fictitious situations. - Expressing unreal desires and sensations. - Express impossible or almost impossible wishes. - General expression of the condition. - Express the cause as a justification and with an emphatic nuance. - Express the cause formally and informally. - Compare qualities, events or actions performed. - To express when an action began to develop. - To express that someone has started doing something for which he or she is not prepared. - To express the sudden onset of an action. - To express the end of a recent event. - To express the duration and result of an action. |
- Contrast of being and being. - Expressions with ser and estar + preposition. - Emphatic structures with ser. - The passive sentence. - The historical present. - Use and relationship between the different past tenses in the indicative. - The simple conditional with past value. - Subordinate noun clauses. - Verbs and expressions that convey reaction, will, feeling, desire, prohibition, command, advice and perception. - To be + adjective. - Verbs with double meaning in the indicative or subjunctive. - The imperative. - Direct and indirect object pronouns. - The reduplication of object pronouns. - Structures for giving orders and instructions. - Temporal and modal connectives and connectors. - Verbal expressions of time and manner. - Unreal comparative structures. - Concessive connectors. - Specific and explanatory relative clauses. - Relative clauses with indicative and subjunctive. - Relative pronouns and adverbs. - Referential discourse; indirect speech. - Grammatical transformations. - Future imperfect. - Future perfect. - Simple conditional and imperfect past tense of indicative. - Simple conditional as an indicator of probability in the past. - Expressions to formulate hypotheses and wishes. - Conditional sentences. - Complex conditional connectors. - Causal sentences. - Final sentences. - Contrast of cause and purpose. - Uses of by and for. - Periphrasis of infinitive, gerund or participle. |
- Humorous text. - The instance. - Humor-related vocabulary. - Dictionary abbreviations. - Homophones. - Different types of text: informative, digital, argumentative. - Interviews. - Theater critic. - Lexicon related to the idiomatic expressions of the show. - Digital and testimonial text. - Prefixes and suffixes. - Lexicon related to happiness. - Advertising. - Specialized report. - Advertising language. - Advertising-related vocabulary. - Instructive and argumentative text. - Lexicon related to magic and superstitions. - Lexicon related to cinema and criticism. - The journalistic genre. - Type of text: conversational, descriptive. - Survey report. - Political rally. - Field related to memory. - Informative text. - Newspaper news. - Specialized journalistic article. - Idiomatic expressions with animals. - Environment-related vocabulary. - Conversational text about an interview. - Argumentative text on a newspaper article. - Informative text on the concept of donjuanism. - Narrative text about a biography. - Digital text on insomnia. - Lexical field related to the dream world. - Journalistic genres: opinion column. - Conclusions of a survey. - Interview. - The job offer. - The cover letter and resume. - The job interview. - Lexicon of money and economy. - Academic lexicon. - Informative text. - Legends about the origin of the world. - Scientific language. - Literary language. - Lexicon related to myths and legends. - Idiomatic expressions with por and para. - Instructional text. - Informative text. - Health-related vocabulary. - Idiomatic expressions related to the body. - Lexicon of American Spanish: Argentina. |
- Humor in the Hispanic world. - The comedy club. - Dalí. - Theater Festival. - Corral de comedias. - Spanish actors. - Famous quotes. - Money and happiness. - The NGO: advertising people involved. - Advertising: advantages and disadvantages. - Institutional advertising. - Aztec legend about the origin of chocolate. - Superstitions in the Hispanic world. - Cultural misunderstandings. - The figure of King Philip II. - Some Hispano-American politicians. - The figure of Eva Perón. - El silencio y el caos, article by Rosa Montero. - Miguel Delibes. - Natural parks. - Famous for the environment. - Quotes from famous people. - Don Juanism. - Octavio Paz. - Surrealism. - Salvador Dalí. - Freud. - Ethical banking. - The Spanish Cooperation Agency. - NGOs and volunteerism. - Legends of Spain and Latin America. - Pre-Columbian cultures. - The Machu Picchu. - Intangible Heritage of Humanity. - Conventional and alternative medicine. - Diseases of the 21st century. - The NGO SOS Children's Villages Spain. - Hispanic cinema. |
- Resources for understanding the meaning of long oral texts. - Guidelines for the comprehension of humorous texts. - Strategies for acquiring listening proficiency. - Lexicon by derivation. - General comprehension of written text. - Intercultural communicative interaction. - Reading comprehension. - Written expression. - Guidelines for writing an article. - Analysis of informal and formal oral and written language. - Lexicon deduction through contextualization. - Guidelines for participating in a debate. - Strategies for developing listening comprehension. - Keys to write a description. - Lexicon acquisition. - The use of the dictionary. - Textual coherence and cohesion. - Introductory elements of the speech act that disappear in the referred speech. - Expressive elements of the speech act to be interpreted in the referred speech. - Improvement and expansion of the lexicon. - Resources to elaborate a definition. - Guidelines for writing a biography. - Reflection on learning inductive and deductive grammar. - Reading comprehension: techniques. - Read with concrete purpose. - Skimming technique. - Lexical composition strategies. - Guidelines for public speaking. - Cooperative work to accomplish a task. - Recommendations and strategies for writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper. |