UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Evening CoursesSpanish Level 2+(Common European Framework Level A2)Prerequisite for entrySuccessful completion of Spanish Level 2 at UCL CLIE or for learners who have studied thelanguage before, for instance up to GCSE level.

Term duration10 x 2-hour classes

ProgressionAfter 20 hours students may progress to level 3

Aims and ObjectivesThe aim of the course is to enable students with a good knowledge of basic Spanish to reachan intermediate level and to communicate in and understand Spanish.

Functions-

Talking about what you did yesterday.

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Talking about the past: holidays and travels.

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Narrating the most important facts of someone's life. Talking about important peoplein Spanish and Latin-American culture.

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Talking about last weekend. Asking and giving opinions about the activities that wedid during the last weekend.

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Asking and giving information about public places in a city. Giving instructions to getto a place.

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Asking for permission. Giving and refusing permission. Asking for favours and help.Asking for things. Borrowing and lending things.

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Describing objects. Expressing purpose. Expressing possession. Talking about gifts andpresents.

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Describing the way things and places used to be in the past. Talking about ourchildhood.

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Comparing how things, people and places used to be in the past and how are theynow. Comparing our past habits with our current ones.

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Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered-

Daily routine activities. Sports and leisure activities.

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Holidays and travels.

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Biographies. Important moments in life.

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The last weekend. Leisure activities.

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Public places in a city.

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Social situations. Classroom rules.

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Objects: shapes, materials and purposes. Gifts and presents.

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The Incas.

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Childhood.

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The character.

Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics-

Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of spoken Spanish.

Grammar-

The preterite tense: regular and irregular verbs.

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The preterite tense: alternation e-i in the 3rd person singular and plural.

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Ser + bueno/malo; estar + bien/mal.

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The absolute superlative.

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Parecer + adjetivo.

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Puedo + infinitive?, puedes + infinitive? se puede + infinitive?

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Me das?; Me dejas?

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The imperative affirmative, singular.

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The imperative affirmative + direct object pronouns.

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Ser para + infinitive; ser de + material; ser de + nombre de persona; ser + posesivo.

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The imperfect tense: regular and irregular verbs.

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Verb soler.

Learning ResourcesBook-

Course book: Curso de espaol para extranjeros ELE ACTUAL A2 (students book).Virgilio Borobio. Ediciones SM. (chapters 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15)ISBN: 978-84-675-47417-4

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In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in theSelf-Access Centre.

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