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 3 at UCL CLIE or for learners who have a good
command of the language and its main grammatical structures or have recently achieved a
good grade at A-Level.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes
Progression
After 20 hours students may progress to level 4
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 wishes and emotions.
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Giving comfort.
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Express future plans and projects using probability.
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Talk about character, feelings and moods. Describe someone’s character and talk
about personal relationships.
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Express opinion. Participate in a debate.
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Showing agreement or disagreement.
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Suggesting, accepting, refusing.
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Talk about pass experiences. Express the situations and circumstances when
something occurred.
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Talk about the future and express prediction and possibilities.
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Express hypothesis and certainty.
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Describe and discuss cultural behaviours and social norms.
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Ask and Give Cultural references and information.
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Making assessments and judging situations, events and states.
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Social and cultural wishes.
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Wishes about the future.
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Personal relationships: express feelings and good behaviour.
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Advantages and disadvantages of living in a city.
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Your Life: anecdotes and jokes.
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Your life: hypothesis about the future.
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Social norms and stereotypes.
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Ecology.
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Impersonality and complains.
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Advised
Grammar
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Past Tenses: Preterit Tense, Imperfect, Pluperfect and continuous.
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Contrast within past tenses.
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Present subjunctive:
- expression of whish: esperar que, desear que…
- expressions of probabity: tal vez, a lo mejor…
- expression of feelings: me parece, me pone nervioso que..
- impersonal structures: es importante que, es necesario que…
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Future perfect tenses.
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Conditional tenses.
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Hypothesis using indicative or subjunctive tenses.
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Expression and structures required participating in a debate giving your opinion and
showing agreement or disagreement.
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Relative clauses with indicative and subjunctive.
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Direct and Indirect objects: lo / la/ les...
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Impersonal clauses: se dice, la gente dice, uno dice…
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Time clauses: contrast indicative/subjunctive. Cuando, en cuanto, después de que,
una vez que…
Learning Resources
Book: Curso de Español Para Extranjeros ELE ACTUAL B1 (student’s Book).
Virgilio Borobio y Ramón Palencia. Ediciones SM. (Chapters 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12)
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ISBN: 979-84-675-4897-6
Additional Material
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the SelfAccess Centre.
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