University Spanish Program

Objetives

• Students will acquire basic knowledge of the Spanish language enabling them to:
• Provide personal data and information in real life situations (labor interview, medical interview, admissions to courses, etc.)
• Manage in everyday situations (finding spaces and locating people, buying and selling, expressing likes and dislikes)
• Understand and actively participate in conversations about simple topics (food, the city, the time, the weather, the house, clothes, family relations)
• Express relatively simple situations, both orally and in writing.

Content

Functions

• Introducing himself and others
• Interchanging personal information
• Speaking of and describing his or her family
• Giving simple instructions
• Identifying objects
• Describing places
• Interchanging place information
• Asking and telling the name
• Making future plans

Grammar

• Phonetics
• Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives
• Regular and Irregular verbs in the Present Mood
• “Estar” + adjectives
• “Estar” + gerunds
• Direct and indirect object pronouns
• Infinitive and Gerund expressions
• Going to Future
• Number and Gender
• Articles
• The introduction of the imperative
• Hace” + the weather
• The verb “haber”: hay -there is-
• Prepositions for verbs of movement and place
• The introduction of reflexive verbs
• “Tener” + que Ej.: tener frío to be as in –to be cold-

Objetives

• Students will acquire basic knowledge of the Spanish language enabling them to:
• Provide personal data and information in real life situations (labor interview, medical interview, admissions to courses, etc.)
• Manage in everyday situations (finding spaces and locating people, buying and selling, expressing likes and dislikes)
• Understand and actively participate in conversations about simple topics (food, the city, the time, the weather, the house, clothes, family relations)
• Express relatively simple situations, both orally and in writing.

Content

Functions

• Describing people
• Speaking in detail about habitual actions
• Showing interest in the actions of others
• Criticizing and making compliments
• Retelling specific facts in the past

Grammar

• Qualifying adjectives, superlatives, direct object, qué y cuál –what and which
• Verbs in the present tense
• Regular Perfect Preterit 
• Irregular verbs in the Perfect Preterit “estar, ir, dar, poder, venir, decir”
• Imperfect Preterit
• Time adverbs: yesterday, today, tomorrow

Objetives

At this stage, students acquire broader knowledge of the Spanish language, allowing them to:

• Properly face any situation of everyday life
• Express suggestions, possibilities, wishes, advises, orders and instructions
• Understand and independently elaborate an original text of intermediate difficulty
• Express themselves more properly –orally and in writing– about more complex topics (describing the present, narrating situations in the past and reporting other speaker’s speech)

Content

Functions

• Job Interviewing and application skills
• Describing tasks
• Retelling experiences
• Inviting, accepting or rejecting invitations
• Giving Advice and recommending

Grammar

• The use of the impersonal se
• Uses of estar + gerund
• Possessives
• The simple past, irregular forms
• The Past Perfect
• Use of possessive pronouns: double substitution.
• Indirect Speech
• Imperative Mood
• Prepositions: values of por -by- de-of-, en-in.
• Recommending and giving instructions with impersonal forms
• The use of possessives with Imperative Mood verbs

Objetives

At this stage, students acquire broader knowledge of the Spanish language, allowing them to:

• Properly face any situation of everyday life
• Express suggestions, possibilities, wishes, advises, orders and instructions 
• Express themselves more properly –orally and in writing– about more complex topics (describing the present, narrating situations in the past and reporting other speaker’s speech)
• Understand and independently elaborate an original text of intermediate difficulty

Content

Functions

• Expressing wishes, emotions, likes and preferences. Stating agreement and disagreement. 
• Expressing doubt 
• Expressing wishes. 
• Controlling discussions 
• Making a point  

Grammar

• The Subjunctive 
• Querer, desear, esperar -wish, desire, hope (+ que + Subjuntivo): “Quiero que sepas... 
• Sentir-feel- , lamentar –to regret-, agradecer, alegrase (de) – to be happy with-, tener miedo (de) –to e afraid of 
• Requests 
• The diminutive form 
• The use of the verb “gustar” 
• The use of the Subjunctive Mood Infinitive y Past Imperfect  
• Verb Tenses to state agreement and disagreement. “Creo que...I believe that…. 
• “Estoy en total desacuerdo – I completely disagree..., etc. 

Objetives

At this stage students widen and deepen the acquired knowledge of the Spanish language. This knowledge will allow them to:

• Manage in situations that require a more advanced use of language (discussing specific topics, expressing opinions, abstract assessing, oral exposition); 
• Discuss, debate and expose ideas in a clear and grammatically correct manner: 
• Express themselves fluently both orally and in writing, applying stylistic nuances;
• Independently understand, elaborate and linguistically assess complex original texts, related to a variety of topics.

Content

Functions

• Describing people 
• Describing personality 
• Retelling stories: chronology, historical accounts, anecdotes, dreams, short stories. 
• Giving advice and stating opinions 
• Defining and giving instructions 
• Expressing agreement and disagreement 
• Expressing the unreal past and probability 

Grammar

• The use of ser y estar –to be- 
• Word Formation 
• Circumlocutions or Periphrastic verbal structures 
• Correcting untrue information.  
• Time relationships among actions
• Telling time and dates 
• The Subjunctive. The Conditional 
• The uses of the subjunctive in relative, time and final clauses. 
• Giving orders 
• Uses of verbal tenses in hypothesis 

Objetives

At this stage students widen and deepen the acquired knowledge of the Spanish language. This knowledge will allow them to:

• Manage in situations that require a more advanced use of language (discussing specific topics, expressing opinions, abstract assessing, oral exposition); 
• Discuss, debate and expose ideas in a clear and grammatically correct manner: 
• Express themselves fluently both orally and in writing, applying stylistic nuances;
• Independently understand, elaborate and linguistically assess complex original texts, related to a variety of topics.

Content

Functions

• Repeating, retelling and summarizing what is said 
• Giving advice and expressing wishes, likes and feelings 
• Analyzing and writing news 
• Describing and speculating in abstract 
• Expressing conditions and making a point 
• Retelling 

Grammar

• Transformations in verb tenses as to communicative situation changes. Transformation of other elements 
• Resources when giving advice. The subjunctive in noun phrases 
• Cause and opposition discourse connectors 
• The passive voice. The gerund and the participle. 
• Word Formation 
• Resources to giving opinions. 
• Conditionals and concessive sentences 
• Time relationship and logical relationship 

Objetives

In the specialization levels, students widen and deepen the already acquired knowledge of the Spanish language, enabling them to:

• Improve their oral and written production, developing more accuracy, fluency and a register of their own;
• Use vocabulary and grammatical structures wit increased accuracy;
• Develop strategic skills;
• Efficiently identify and produce different types of texts;
• Analyze literary and non-literary texts;
• Become acquainted with examples of Argentine and Latin American literature.

Content

Level 7

Functions

• Discuss and comment on the process of learning Languages
• Describe and compare advantages and disadvantages of different ways of living.
• Focus and discuss on common writing mistakes
• Giving opinions and discussing about habits, routines, beliefs and popular devotions
• Description of extraordinary facts, events, and make hypothesis of them.
• Express agreement and disagreement stating different points of view.
• Description and advertising goods. Promoting, sales, etc.
• Talk about the future

Grammar

• Pronominal verbs combines with nouns, infinitives, and subjunctive. “Aunque” Even though, Although, Though.
• Expressing necessity.  
• Comparisons, comparative connectors and expressions related to them. 
• Verbs of thinking combined with Indicative and Subjunctive.
• Impersonal formal forms.
• Passive forms, impersonal “se”
• Verbs and expressions of feeling. Use of connectors. Temporal correlations. Forms for making hypothesis
• Sentences using subjunctive, indicative, simple and compound futures.
• Expressions of certainty.
• Phrases to help retelling anecdotes, episodes, stories.
• Temporal phrases in the past
• Expressing objectives using “para”. 
• Speech connectors combined with indicative and subjunctive.
• Punctuation.
• Other expressions to help talk about the future.

Level 8

Functions

• Expressing reproach and regret about the past. 
• Talk about what happened, but should not have and vice versa. Feeling sorry for what has or has not happened
• Talking about the past and its relation with the present time.
• Commenting on different aspects of the labor world: changes, problems, finding solutions.
• Justifying opinions to support or reject 
• Commenting on the scientific breakthroughs highlighting their advantages or disadvantages.
• Expressing and contrasting with your own and others´ points of view.
• Developing abilities for reading comprehension, taking notes and making graphics. Writing skills and self correction of mistakes.

Grammar

• Conditional Statements. Connectors for conditionals.
• Coativos verbs. Direct Speech  
• All uses of “se” 
• All uses of “lo”.. Directo Object. “Lo” + adjective. 
• Predicative Complement.
• Uses of gerunds 

Level 9

Functions

• Commenting on unreal and strange imaginative situations.
• Talking about dreams. Contrasting ideas.
• Refuting arguments.
• Presenting an argumentative text in formal registry.
• Making questions
• Giving clear and precise opinions
• Criticizing through arguments and justifications using speech elements. 
• Exchanging information on Internet security, expressing advantages and disadvantages

Grammar

• Auxiliary verbs. Characteristics of verbal phrases with auxiliaries. Combination of auxiliaries.
• Uses of pronouns.  
• Uses of modal verbs to express obligation and probability.
• Uses of prepositions ruled by verbs.
• Questions beginning with prepositions.
• Word order
• Use of interrogative pronouns. 
• Expressions to deny or to reassure.
• Introductory and explanatory world building sentences
• Uses of articles.
• Other verbs needing prepositions
• Gender
• Structure of a monograph, its steps to writing one. 

Level 10

Functions

• To define and to redefine
• Understanding argumentative texts under high degree of subjectivity
• Understanding documentaries and discuss them.
• Reading, discussing and stating your opinions of a story.
• Talking about others´opinions and confronting them with yours.
• Stating your own judgments.
• Elaborating argumentative texts
• Writing definitions in an objective registry from a subjective perspective.
• Expressing feelings throughout lyrics.
• Talking about hypothetical situations in the past, present and future.
• Arguing about a controversial topic
• Writing an essay
• Making up interviews to look for specific information or asking for opinions.
• Organizing a bibliographical research
• Setting out a written and oral research.

Grammar

• Correct use of all Spanish Tenses
• Correct use of temporal expressions.   
• Correct use of prepositions in temporal expressions.
• Expressing cause and consequence.
• Use of connectors
• To organize the correct information within a phrase.
• Correction of common mistakes.
• Review of hypothetical expressions (conditionals and conjectural future)
• Word order. The position of the subject. The position of adjectives