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Contenidos
General
General review of grammatical knowledge: present indicative; principal irregulars; ser and estar; pronominal and reflexive verbs; personal pronouns
- Past tenses: perfect preterite; indefinite preterite; pluperfect preterite
- Future
- Conditional
- Prepositions; verbs that govern preposition; total system of prepositions
- Present subjunctive: regular and irregular forms
- Imperative sense; irregulars; negative imperative; pragmatic values
- Subjunctive in temporal phrases
- Subjunctive with verbs that express influence or emotion
- Subjunctive with verbs of thought
- Subjunctive in phrases that express finality
- Subjunctive in phrases of probability
- Imperfect subjunctive: regular and irregular forms
- Subjunctive in conditional phrases
- Other uses of the subjunctive
- Connectors and formulas of discursive use; casual and consecutive phrases
- Indirect style; verbs of expression; indirect interrogatives
Composition
- Composition of personal letters (letters of invitation, congratulation, thanks, and apology)
- Composition of simple formal letters
- Descriptive compositions of everyday life
- Descriptive compositions of past events
- Compositions that imply an element of creativity (humorist texts, horror texts, public announcements, recipes, etc.)
Conversational and Functional Contents
- Physical and intellectual description of people: advanced vocabulary
- Description of objects by their form and function
- Communicating physical and animate states
- Communicating positive and negative qualities of a person or object
- Creating invitations, petitions, and offerings
- Accepting and declining invitations and offerings
- Developing advice and suggestions (and accepting/declining of such)
- Developing hypotheses and desires
- Adequate use of title (tú, Usted, don, señor)
- Argue for and against an idea or concept
- Accept the ideas of others or refute them completely or partially
- Coordinate the actions of a group that requires cooperation: give instructions
- Formulate acts of spontaneous speech
- Narration of stories
NOTE: The program of the course may be modified by the professor due to the rhythm of the class and the necessities of its students. Attendance is mandatory.
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