Course detail
Spanish Upper-Intermediate
FAST-BYS4Acad. year: 2009/2010
This course concentrates on the following areas:
- understand daily life phrases and have conversations about themes and problems of daily life,
- use of all basic tenses in present, past and future.
The course will conclude with a test, which will asses the students’ knowledge of useful vocabulary and phrases and their ability to understand texts.
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Course curriculum
Week 1 - Unit 1 – Explain the biography of somebody: talk about his/her hobbies and what he or she likes to do.
Week 2 - Unit 1 – Express continuity and duration – estaba + gerundio, llevar + gerundio.
Week 3 - Unit 2 – Speak about humor. Describe the personality of somebody. Ask and express about personal opinion. Adjectives that describe someone’s personality.
Week 4 - Unit 2 – Difference between ser and estar. Fututo imperfecto of regular and irregular verbs.
Week 5 - Unit 3 – Express obligation in personal and impersonal forms. Give instructions and orders.
Week 6 - Unit 3 – Subjunctive of regular verbs. Positive and negative orders.
Week 7 - Unit 4 – Express probability and explain the way to somewhere.
Week 8 - Unit 4 – Conditional simple tense. Préterito Plusquamperfecto of regular and irregular verbs.
Week 9 - Unit 5 – Transmission of information given by somebody else. Ask and give information to someone else.
Week 10 – Unit 5 – Indirect style. Transmission of questions.
Week 11 – Practicing of studied grammar and vocabulary.
Week 12– Conversations about studied themes.
Week 13 – Tests.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-K-C-GK Bachelor's
branch G , 2 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
- Programme B-P-C-GK Bachelor's
branch G , 2 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, recommended course