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Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Spanish Level 2+ at UCL CLIE or for learners who have studied the language before, for instance A levels.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Progression
After 20 hours students may progress to level 3+
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this course is to enable students to communicate and interact at a basic intermediate level and to further develop their skills and knowledge of the target language and culture.
Functions
- Asses and evaluate experiences.
- Talk about films and give personal opinion.
- Talk about how we met people in our life.
- Talk about our work experience.
- Interact in small conversations and stories.
- Talk about the past:
- Express personal experiences.
- Express when actions started, finished, repeated or continued.
- Describe and express duration of past actions.
- Express the relationship among moments in the past.
- Relate actions form different moments in the past.
- Describe the situations and circumstances when something occurred. Express its cause.
Course Content
Main topics/themes to be covered:
- Tourism and travels.
- Learning Spanish: skills and good practice.
- Work Experience.
- Moments in a Life: important experiences and people.
- Anecdotes and small stories.
- Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends.
- Talking about cinema. Synopsis of films.
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of Spoken Spanish
Grammar and Vocabulary
- Past Tenses: Present Perfect, Preterit Tense, Imperfect, Pluperfect and continuous.
- Esta mañana he visto a Manuel. Ayer fui al teatro. Cuando era una niña no me gustaba la leche. Cuando llegué a clase no había nadie.
- Periphrasis to continue, repeat or give up actions: dejar de + infinitive, volver a + infinitive, seguir / llevar + gerund.
- Indicating origin of activities: Estudio español desde que llegué a Londres.
- Temporal references for different past tenses : Ayer fui… Esta semana he estado…
- Contrast within Past Tenses: Esa mañana hacía mucho frío. Fui a tomar un café. Cuando la policía llegó ya había llegado la ambulancia.
- Nexus in stories: En aquel momento, de repente, entonces, por eso, sin embargo…
- Causal sentences: Como no tenía zapatos no podía ir a la fiesta.
- Evaluating experiences or events : Me encantó esa obra… Me gustó bastante la película
- Direct and Indirect objects: lo / la/ les...
- Vocabulary to tell stories: Pues una vez me pasó una cosa
- Vocabulary to interact: Cuéntame… ¡No me digas! ... !Qué suerte!
- Vocabulary to talk about work life: Empecé a trabajar hace 10 años. No tenía experiencia ni formación especializada.
- Vocabulary to talk about personal relationships: Nos conocimos en un curso y me cayó genial.
- Vocabualry to talk about cinema: Va de una pareja… Está ambientada en los 80…
Learning Resources Required
- Course Book: Aula Internacional 2 (student’s book) Chapter 10. Aula Internacional 3 (student’s Book). Difusión. (ISBN: 978-84-15640-11-0) Chapters 1, 8 and 4.
- Online platform campus.difusion.com (materials to be used in class, as homework and for self-study; details will be provided in class). For this online platform, students will need to open their own account and then, for full access, purchase a premium account for a year access.
- We recommend you to acquire your book (Aula Internacional 3), or the platform, or both through the European Bookshop http://www.europeanbookshop.com/setbooks.php?institution=195705&class=900
- In addition, there is a range of language learning materials for self-study in the Self-Access Centre (SAC).
