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Intermediate Conversational Spanish I

Course ID: FLI-3717AS2
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If you have taken courses in Spanish and want to continue your study, this class is for you. Focus on listening and speaking skills within themed units. Participate actively in class. Grammar and vocabulary review are also included, but class time focuses on productive communication exercises.

Course Objectives

increase their vocabulary through thematic lists.

improve listening comprehension skills so that they can understand information conveyed in simple, sentence-length speech on familiar or everyday topics.

generally be able to comprehend one utterance at a time while engaged in face-to-face conversations or in routine listening tasks such as understanding highly contextualized messages, straightforward announcements, or simple instructions and directions.

improve their oral communication skills so that they gain the ability to create with the language when talking about familiar topics related to their daily life.

be able to recombine learned material in order to express personal meaning and can handle a straightforward survival situation for travel or work.

be able to produce sentence-level language, ranging from discrete sentences to strings of sentences, in the present, past and future tenses.

Outline of instruction

Chapter 1A (2 classes): La Moda - Fashion and its influence on society, past tense narration.

Chapter 1B (2 classes): Los Autos - Automobiles, driving, and getting around, narrating using both past tenses together, understanding preterite and imperfect.

Chapter 2A (3 classes): El Medio Ambiente - The environment, conversation, and the natural world, using ser, estar, and haber correctly.

Chapter 2B (2 classes): El Futuro del Planeta - The future of our planet and our way of life, using the future tense to express what will happen and to discuss conjecture.

Chapter 3A (2 classes): Los Derechos Humanos - Human rights in the first world and in the Spanish-speaking world, foreign policy, using the subjunctive to will others to action, indirect commands.

Review (1 class): Students review topics covered previously and wrap up the semester.

Contact Hours

CEUs

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

None

CE or CU Articulation

Prerequisites

Students should have a solid understanding and working knowledge of basic grammar and vocabulary. This course is designed for students who have already participated successfully in Spanish conversation either in a classroom environment or in social/daily-life settings.

Text and Supplies Needed

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Clinical Site/Special Facilities

None.

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

This course is designed for students whose level of Spanish speaking and listening is clearly beyond the basic level. Students enrolling in this course should already have a solid foundation of basic grammar and vocabulary as well as experience with conversation Spanish either in a classroom or social/daily-life settings.