UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
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Spanish Level 3
(Common European Framework Level B1)
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Spanish Level 2+ at UCL CLIE or for learners who have studied the
language before, for instance A levels.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this course is to enable students to communicate and interact at an intermediate
level and to further develop their skills and knowledge of the target language and culture.
Functions
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Talk about the past, describe it and express duration of past actions.
Asses and evaluate experiences.
Talk about the future.
Predict and express possibilities.
Express conditions and their consequences.
Ask and Give Cultural references and information.
Compare and stand out one thing among several.
Talk about the past: describe the situations and circumstances when something
occurred. Express its cause.
Talk about the past: relate actions form different moments in the past.
Express personal experiences.
Show interest about people or things.
Express feelings: happiness, satisfaction, sadness, pity, surprise and oddness.
Describe Problems.
Ask for and give advice. Suggest. Respond to and advice or suggestion.
Ask for: a favour, an object, permission, help, passing information.
Pass information, requirements and questions.
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Learning Spanish: skills and good practice.
Variety within Spanish.
Talking about Future.
Latin World.
Personal Relationships: Our Friends.
Your Life: important experiences.
Healthy Life: good and bad habits.
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Technology: your devices.
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of Spoken Spanish
Grammar
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Past Tenses: Preterit Tense, Imperfect, Pluperfect and continuous.
Contrast within Past Tenses.
Periphrasis: Llevo estudiando, Desde hace 10 años…
Future Tense
If Clause: present tense + future tense.
Interrogatives
Temporal sentences
Causal sentences
Verbs of change: possibilities for to become.
Relatives: que or quien.
Indefinite quantifiers: alguien, nadie, nada, alguno, ninguno…
Verbs and expressions with prepositions: alegrarse de, tener ganas de …
Imperative tense: affirmative, negative + personal pronouns.
Suggest or advice + infinitive
Conditional Tense, simple or in periphrasis: podrías ayudarme? Te importaría
ayudarme a hacer…?
Periphrasis to continue or give up actions: dejar de + infinitive, seguir + Gerund.
Indirect Speech: telling or passing what others asked for.
Direct and Indirect objects: lo / la/ les...
Learning Resources
Books
- Course Book: Curso de Español Para Extranjeros ELE ACTUAL B1 (student’s Book).
- Virgilio Borobio y Ram’on Palencia. Ediciones SM. (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8)
ISBN: 979-84-675-4897-6
- In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the
Self-Access Centre.
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