Intermediate Spanish Language

OVERVIEW
This course is designed for students who have had at least 2 semesters of college level Spanish. The overall objective of this class will be substantial vocabulary expansion and communicative competency in describing, giving directions, getting information, narrating and describing in the past, reacting to events through the use of the subjunctive, comparing, narrating in the future, and hypothesizing. The communicative skills course will build upon the grammatical skills learned in this course.

CONTENT
The specific grammar points to be covered include:

1. Preterite versus imperfect

2. Future tense

3. Superlatives

4. Gustar and similar verbs

5. Sentences with porque and para

6. Si clauses

7. Formation and derivation of words.

EVALUATION
The student will be evaluated on daily oral and written exercises, classroom participation, a mid-term exam, and a final exam.