Level teaching hours: 320 hours.

General objectives:

At this level, the student is able to understand and use the language with a high degree of accuracy and flexibility in a wide variety of contexts, both everyday and specialized. He/she is able to manage with ease in complex communicative situations, adapting his/her speech to the needs of the interlocutor and the particularities of the context. Likewise, he/she masters diverse linguistic structures that allow him/her to express nuances, intentions and opinions with clarity, coherence and efficiency.

As a social agent, the student participates actively and competently in interactions of different nature, successfully managing complex communicative exchanges. They are able to interpret and produce discourses appropriate to each situation, showing sensitivity to the sociocultural and pragmatic norms that govern communication. In addition, he/she is able to function autonomously in both formal and informal contexts, negotiating meanings and resolving possible misunderstandings effectively.

As an intercultural speaker, possesses a critical awareness of cultural diversity and how it influences communication. Recognizes and analyzes the differences and similarities between cultures, integrating this knowledge into his or her own communicative practice. Is able to interpret cultural references in a nuanced way and to act as a mediator in intercultural contexts, facilitating mutual understanding and avoiding possible conflicts derived from cultural differences.

As an autonomous learner, he/she manages his/her own learning process in a strategic and reflective manner. He identifies his needs, sets realistic goals and selects the most appropriate resources to achieve them. Likewise, he evaluates his progress critically, adjusting his strategies when necessary. Takes into account both cognitive and emotional factors, thus consolidating effective and sustainable long-term learning.

Specific objectives:

Reading comprehension

Listening comprehension

1. Is able to understand and accurately interpret written texts of diverse nature and complexity, even when they present little explicit structures or contain implicit meanings. Can easily identify both main ideas and relevant details, as well as discursive nuances, communicative intentions and cultural or contextual references.

1. Can understand extended and complex spoken discourse, regardless of its pace or degree of planning. Is able to follow spontaneous utterances typical of natural speech, interpreting not only explicit content but also nuances, speaker's intention and possible pragmatic implications.

Oral expression

Written expression

1. Can express him/herself fluently, precisely and spontaneously, with little effort, using a wide lexical repertoire and complex structures. Can express him/herself clearly, well organized and adapted to the communicative context, both formal and informal. Can describe, argue and qualify information about him/herself, other people, places or experiences, showing a high degree of coherence and appropriateness.

2. In addition, can read aloud texts with appropriate intonation, rhythm, and pronunciation, reflecting a thorough understanding of content and communicative intent.

Produces clear, detailed and well-structured written texts on a wide variety of subjects. Is able to develop ideas with precision, cohesion and coherence, adapting the register to the context. Can write personal and professional texts, integrating descriptions, evaluations and arguments in an effective way, with a solid use of grammatical and lexical resources.

Contents: what will you learn?

Functional

Linguistic

Textual and lexical

Cultural

Strategic

- To write a tourist brochure.

- Reacting to a work of art.

- Express tastes and evaluations.

- To write the rules of an artistic contest.

- Values of the se.

- Values of the pronoun lo.

- The use of the future tense in normative texts.

- Tourist brochure: linguistic resources.

- Lexicon related to architecture.

- Lexicon related to contests and competitions.

- Lexicon related to aesthetic categories.

- Architectural and artistic movements in Spain.

- Cultural and artistic heritage of Spain.

- Different pictorial styles and formats.

- Some important cultural events in Spain.

- Search for textual models to compare them and extract their main features.

- Selective use of resources.

- Strongly recommend and strongly discourage.

- To qualify the opinion.

- Tell an anecdote.

- Narrate, describe and evaluate.

- Position of the adjective (qualifier and epithet).

- Concordance in complex lexies.

- Discourse markers to intensify and attenuate.

- Phraseological units: collocations and idiomatic expressions.

- The newspaper column.

- Poetry.

- Radio interview.

- Travel blog.

- Sense-related vocabulary.

- Gastronomic tourism.

- Science outreach programs and magazines in Spanish.

- Concept of good and bad taste.

- Predict the content of an auditory text.

- Resources to understand the meaning of oral texts.

- Inference in the speaker's attitudes.

- Capture and summarize the general ideas of a written text.

- Take notes and plan a written text.

- Narrate own and others' anecdotes.

- Describe a social situation.

- Express the causes of a social phenomenon.

- To argue one's own opinion.

- Expressing skills.

- Short adverbs.

- Modal connectors.

- Argumentative connectors and markers.

- Prepositions governed by verbs, participles, adjectives and nouns.

- Combinations of verb + short adverb.

- Radio monologues.

- Newspaper headlines.

- The paper.

- Magazine article.

- Professional and personal questionnaire.

- Qualities related to success.

- Verbs related to success and failure.

- Lexicon related to the world of work and personal skills.

- The social definition of success.

- Traits that define successful people.

- Presidents and governments of democracy in Spain.

- Social values associated with success.

- Successful Hispanic personalities.

- Predict the content of oral and written texts.

- To reflect on the different meanings of a word.

- Involve students in the development of materials.

- Evoking memories of literary experiences.

- Expressing surprise, surprise and desire.

- Express courtesy.

- Narrate fictitious events.

- Confirm a piece of information.

- Analyze and comment on a narrative text.

- Compare literal and figurative language.

- Uses of the different tenses of the past tense of indicative.

- Relationship between verb semantics and past tenses: event / state.

- The narrative imperfect.

- Modal values of the imperfect.

- Metaphor.

- Adverbs in -mente.

- The blog: experiences as readers.

- The literary magazine: contests and collaborations.

- Poetry.

- The literary tale.

- Lexicon of literary genres.

- Terms and expressions to comment on a narrative text.

- Literary conversations.

- Mario Benedetti.

- Antonio Machado.

- Hispanic short story authors.

- Works of literature in Spanish.

- The literary tale in the Spanish language.

- Stylistic effects in journalistic language.

- Express agreement and strong disagreement.

- Express skepticism.

- To express certainty or probability.

- Understanding and commenting on statistics.

- Support the argumentation with statistical data.

- Refute using statistical data.

- Linguistic elements that express certainty.

- Indicative-subjunctive contrast in the expression.

- Rhetorical interrogative sentences.

- Concordance in partitive constructions.

- Concordance ad sensum in pseudopartitive constructions.

- Magazine article.

- Tales and legends.

- The essay.

- Expository texts: structure and characteristics.

- Lexicon related to moral dilemmas.

- Phraseology related to luck.

- Statistics.

- Derivation.

- Quantitative notions.

- Lexicon related to cultural aspects, values and beliefs.

- Religious beliefs.

- Values and beliefs of the Hispanic world.

- Sociocultural elements in the Spanish for foreigners class.

- Spanish essayist Ortega y Gasset.

- To anticipate the content of a text by its genre and title.

- Use of the dictionary.

- Mobilize vocabulary and test hypotheses about word derivation.

- Reflection on the treatment of sociocultural elements in the classroom.

- Argue about lifestyles and lifestyles.

- Describe in detail physical and character traits.

- Giving advice in sentimental matters.

- Define people you like at first sight.

- Speaking in a colloquial manner.

- Pejorative suffixes.

- Structures of colloquial conversation.

- Comparatives with subjunctive.

- Presence and absence of the subject pronoun.

- Word division.

- Eco constructions.

- The survey: opinions on romantic relationships.

- Colloquial conversation: proper expressions.

- Expressions about personal relationships.

- Body language lexicon.

- Adjectives applied to conversation.

- Spanish reality on sentimental and personal relationships.

- Gestural language.

- Conversational habits specific to the Hispanic world.

- Non-verbal communication.

- Deduce implicit information in a message.

- Importance of nonverbal language in interaction.

- Recognition of conversational strategies.

- Clarify and specify scientific and technical terms.

- Describe and evaluate scientific and technical innovations and discoveries.

- Prefixation.

- Discourse markers: explanatory reformulators.

- Characteristics of the technological conversation in the network.

- Consecutive sentences with subjunctive.

- Reports on scientific topics.

- Scientific texts.

- Scientific terminology.

- Lexicon related to technology and television.

- Terms related to social networks.

- Manual of style for writing on the web.

- Advances in medicine and genetics.

- The role of social networks.

- History of television in Spain.

- The socializing role of television: generational programs.

- Fundéu.

- Use of examples to remember words.

- Selection of key words from a text.

- Usefulness of style manuals.

- Rewrite texts introducing sentences with the terms that present difficulty.

- Narrate historical facts in a colloquial way.

- Respond to formal inquiries.

- Counterargument.

- Express commitment.

- Uses of gerund.

- Characteristics of legal and administrative language.

- Phraseological units.

- Texts of historical divulgation.

- Electronic encyclopedias.

- Specialized dictionaries.

- Legal consultations.

- The judicial sentence.

- Legal and administrative lexicon.

- Commonly used metonymies.

- Important people and moments in the history of Spain.

- Famous phrases from Spain's recent past.

- Branches of Law.

- Immigration regulations in Spain.

- The NI-NI generation.

- Television programs.

- The main problems of Spaniards based on the CIS study.

- Relationship between the two terms of a metonymy.

- Search for examples of use in the network.

- Use of specialized dictionaries.

- Planning and review of the writing process.

- Locate synonymous words and expressions between common and specialized language.

- Explain the origin of words.

- Formulate hypotheses about words.

- Emphasize and highlight information.

- Structures to express emphasis.

- Ask for a favor.

- Respond affirmatively to a request.

- Reasoned evaluation of a current issue.

- Debate and present arguments.

- To relate fantastic narratives.

- Grammar of politeness.

- Language levels and speech registers.

- Structures to express emphasis.

- The generic masculine: sexist and non-sexist uses.

- Alternatives to the sexist generic masculine: slashes, hyphens, splitting.

- The past tense: form and use.

- The categorical negation: sentences made with the adverb ni and other structures.

- Lexicon related to communicative styles.

- Etymological dictionaries.

- Radio programs.

- Letters to the editor.

- Educational video.

- Palindromes and vocabularies.

- The paper.

- Idiomatic expressions.

- Social networks: TikTok and Instagram.

- Informative texts.

- Phrases from literature and cinema.

- Journalistic texts.

- Traditional tales and legends.

- Slogans.

- Interest in linguistic issues in the media.

- Crossing of cultures.

- Non-sexist communication.

- The NGO.

- Values and anti-values of traditional Hispanic tales.

- Cross-cultural reflection on folklore.

- Use of etymological dictionaries.

- Mobilization of previous knowledge of other languages.

- Involvement of students in the elaboration of didactic material.

- Draft to participate in an oral communication situation.

- Adequacy of the linguistic register to the context and type of text.

- Select the main ideas of a text.

- Describe and compare actions and situations in a process.

- Narrate a process of change.

- To express regret, regret, reproach, etc., about a past situation.

- Express cause and consequence.

- Present alternatives to past events.

- Verbs and periphrases expressing change.

- Verbal periphrases with compound infinitive.

- The retrospective imperative.

- Causal and consecutive sentences.

- Placements.

- Marriage and domestic partnership lexicon.

- History-related vocabulary.

- Changes in customs and traditions regarding courtship and marriage.

- Columbus' arrival in America.

- Use of dictionary corpora and collocations.

- Autonomy in learning; self-correction.

- To value the differences in registration.

- Establish relationships of anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority.

- Express punctuality and anticipation.

- Talk about the beginning and end of actions or events.

- Express continuation, repetition, duration and frequency.

- Narrating a dream.

- Evidentiality markers.

- Temporary markers.

- The use of the imperfect tense in stories.

- The argumentative text: its structure.

- Informative scientific texts.

- Journalistic texts.

- Lexicon related to parts of the day and sleep problems.

- Aesthetics-related vocabulary.

- Songs.

- Calligrams.

- Famous personalities from the Hispanic world.

- Cosmetic surgery as a social phenomenon.

- Types of dreams.

- Spanish music.

- Word deduction from syllable structure and rhyme.