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Spanish Level 2+
(Common European Framework Level A2)
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Spanish Level 2 at UCL CLIE or for learners who have studied the
language before, for instance up to GCSE level.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes
Progression
After 20 hours students may progress to level 3
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students with a good knowledge of basic Spanish to reach
an intermediate level and to communicate in and understand Spanish.
Functions
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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 people
in Spanish and Latin-American culture.
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Talking about last weekend. Asking and giving opinions about the activities that we
did during the last weekend.
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Asking and giving information about public places in a city. Giving instructions to get
to 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 and
presents.
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Describing the way things and places used to be in the past. Talking about our
childhood.
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Comparing how things, people and places used to be in the past and how are they
now. Comparing our past habits with our current ones.
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Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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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
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Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of spoken Spanish.
Grammar
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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 Resources
Book
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Course book: Curso de español para extranjeros ELE ACTUAL A2 (student’s 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 the
Self-Access Centre.
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