Course Description: This is the second part of the intermediate course series, where students will continue to acquire a full understanding of more sophisticated structures of the language, including new tenses that will develop and improve the student's oral and written communication. This course is recommended for those who completed successfully Intermediate level I, or that have a good grasp of the topics covered there.
At this level the class is conducted completely in Spanish with a few exceptions at the teacher's discretion. Group activities and projects, and conversation are emphasized. There will be other immersion activities, readings about literature and art from Latin America and Spain, activities with music videos and interviews, and/or viewings of films in the Spanish language.
Prerequisite: Spanish Intermediate I or equivalent
Duration:
10 weeks (1 class/week) 20 hours total.
Course Outline:
1) Imperfect Tense Review
2) Reflexive Verbs revisited
3) Regular past participles
4) The present perfect tense
5) Adverbs revisited
6) Irregular past participles
7) The pluperfect tense
8) Possessives revisited
9) The future tense
10) Future of probability and irregular future verbs
Bibliography:
1. Arnaiz, C., Wilkie, I.; Basic Spanish:A Grammar and Workbook; Routledge,2006.
2. Valette, J.P., Valette, R.M.; Spanish for Mastery 2 – Entre Nosotros; D C Heath & Co, 1994.
3. Schmitt, C.J.; Spanish Grammar; Schaum's outline series, McGraw-Hill, 5th ed. 2008.