OBJETIVES AND LEVELS

Standard course

Advanced level:

To express opinions, give explanations, share or reject ideas, etc. in a logical coherent way during a conversation with one or more people, showing a good command of the grammatical and communication skills in Spanish.

To understand the other speakers' participations in a fluent conversation.

To make a short speech and follow the others' participations understanding their meaning.

To use social formulae improving oral communication.

To understand easily oral and written messages from mass media and to distinguish information from opinions and personal viewpoints.

To understand how the content of written texts determines their structure.

To write letters, summaries and reports showing objective data as well as opinions accurately.

To use the Spanish language creatively.

To change registers (formal or informal Spanish) according to the communicative needs.

To get familiarized with the specific vocabulary of specific activities and situations.

To fulfill all the objectives without grammatical mistakes.

Upper-Intermediate level:

To take part in a conversation about general subjects giving information and expressing attitudes and opinions.

To keep fluent phone conversations.

To make a speech with logically and coherently structured contents.

To understand an oral or written text, a speech, an article, a mass media broadcast, etc. distinguishing the main from the secondary ideas.

To distinguish also the information in a text from opinions and personal viewpoints.

To recognize the elements implicit in a message.

To produce oral as well as written texts of a certain length with grammatical correction and lexical variety.

To familiarize the student with different registers in Spanish.

Intermediate level:

To understand and produce texts about personal experiences, habitual actions, opinions, etc.

To use communication skills consciously in order to avoid interruptions during a conversation.

To follow grammatically correct conversations with brief not-too-fast participations.

To adapt the conversation register to the social relation with the receiver.

To understand informative newspaper articles and other descriptive or narrative texts and to deduce the unknown aspects from the context.

To understand the content development of simple oral and written texts.

To produce short texts with complex grammatical structures comprehensible for any reader. Some grammatical, spelling or lexical mistakes are allowed, though.

Beginners'-Elementary level:

To understand and produce texts related to material needs and habitual social relations, physical sensations and feelings, etc.

To understand and express opinions in a simple explicit way.

To understand essential ideas related to habitual basic needs and to choose certain information from them.

Intensive course

Intermediate level:

To understand and produce texts about personal experiences, habitual actions, opinions, etc.

To take part in a conversation about general subjects giving information and expressing attitudes and opinions.

To keep fluent phone conversations.

To make a speech with logically and coherently structured contents.

To understand an oral or written text, a speech, a paper or mass media braodcast, etc. and to distinguish the main from the secondary ideas.

To distinguish also the information in a text from opinions and personal viewpoints.

To recognized the elements implicit in a message.

To create oral as well as written texts of a certain length with grammatical correction and lexical variety.

To familiarize the student with different registers in Spanish.

Beginners' level:

To understand and produce texts related to material needs and habitual social relations, physical sensations and feelings, etc.

To use communication skills consciously in order to avoid interruptiona during a conversation.

To follow grammatically correct conversations with brief not-too-fast participations.

To adapt the conversation register to the social relation with the receiver.

To understand informative newspaper articles and other descriptive or narrative texts and to deduce the unknown aspects from the context.

To understand the content development of simple oral and written texts.

To produce short texts with complex grammatical structures comprehensible for any reader. Some grammatical, spelling or lexical mistakes are allowed, though.