Spanish Courses 90 hours

Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level A1 (CEFR) Programme

GENERAL AIMS

On completing this course, student should be able to:

- Be familiar with the Spanish alphabet letters and signs and relate them to the
corresponding sounds.
- Recognise the main intonations of the Spanish language.
- Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that
can be understood by a Spanish speaker.
- Understand basic information (timetables, shopping, personal information) and
communicate in everyday situations.
- Take part in very simple conversations on topics of daily life: basic communicative
situations (formulae for social interaction), personal relationships (talking about habits
and personal tastes) and relationships with public service staff (asking for
information).
- Reading and overall understanding of very simple texts which allow basic activities to
be carried out.
- More precise reading and understanding of specific texts: enrolment forms, library
service application forms, sports, etc.
- Read aloud texts they have written themselves.
- Narrate, simply and using simple structures, present and past events related to the
present. Talk about future plans and intentions.
- Fill in simple forms, write personal notes, postcards and brief letters.
- Take notes and transcribe oral messages.
- Apply strategies to improve comprehension of oral and written messages, associate
meanings, discover similarities by comparing with other languages, identify
internationalisms.
- Use Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of the reading
activity (between students and the teacher).

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

Social function

- Offering and receiving greetings. Asking and responding to questions. Saying

goodbye.
- Saying thank you. Apologising. Making simple excuses.
- Introducing one self.

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Informative function

- Identifying yourself and other people. Asking for and giving personal information
(name, surname, age, profession, nationality, civil status, etc.).
- Describing people's physical appearance. Asking for and giving succinct information
about people's character.
- Asking for and giving general information about places: location with respect to other
places, what they are like and how to get there. Methods of transport.
- Asking for and giving basic information about objects: asking and telling who they
belong to, what they are for, describing them and situating them.
- Asking for and giving the necessary information for buying something: quality,
quantity, colour, size, andprice.
- Asking and telling the time: the time, timetables, carrying out an action.
- Asking for and giving information about activities: what somebody is doing, what is
happening at a specific time, daily routines.

Expressive function

- Simple expressions ofhappiness and sadness.

- Expressing satisfaction or a lack of satisfaction, likes and dislikes.
- Expressing interest, admiration for something or someone. Expressing a lack of
interest, indifference or rejection.

Evaluative function

- Expressing agreement or disagreement with someone or about something.

- Expressing tastes and preferences.
- Simple ways of justifying preferences.

Inductive function

- Expressing desires, wishes, intentions or proposals. Asking about a proposal for

action.
- Proposing an activity. Agreeing to the terms of a meeting: place, day and time.
- Asking if something can be done, should be done or if it is better not to do it.

Meta-linguistic function

- Ask how to say something in Spanish.

- Asking and telling how to spell a word and which punctuation signs are necessary.
- Asking a telling about understanding an expression.
- Asking someone to repeat something, to talk louder or slower.
- Asking for clarification about the meaning of a word or an expression.

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GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

Determinants and Quantifiers

- Definite articles (el, la, los, las) and indefinite articles (un, una, unos, unas).
- Demonstratives: este/a, ese/a, aquel/lla.
- Possessives: mi, tu, su, nuestro/a, vuestro/a, su, mis, tus, sus, nuestros/as,
vuestros/as, sus.
- Cardinal and ordinal numbers.
- Grades of meaning: muy, bastante, demasiado, poco.

Nouns and adjectives

- Gender and number.

Verbs

- Present tense of the most common regular and irregular verbs (trabajar, estudiar,
ser, vivir, estar, ir, venir, cerrar, abrir, costar, empezar...) andmost frequent
expressions of time (siempre, todos los días normalmente, a veces...).
- The verb 'haber'. Uses as an auxiliary and main verb.
- Most common regular and irregular reflexive verbs: llamarse, levantarse, ducharse,
acostarse...
- Verbs with emphatic pronouns: gustar, encantar (―a mí me gusta‖).
- Modal verbs of obligation (tener que), desire (querer) and possibility (poder).
- Future expressions. Use of the present in future expressions (tomorrow, next
week...).
- Simple past tense: most common regular and irregular verbs. hablar, ver hacer
poner, ser...
- Presentation of expressions using estar + gerund.

Adverbs

- Adverbs of state: bien, mal, regular...

- Adverbs of place: aquí, allí, cerca, lejos...
- Adverbs of time: ahora, después, luego...

Pronouns

- Personal stressed subject pronouns: yo, tú, él...

- Personal unstressed direct object pronouns: me, te, lo, la, nos, os, los, las.
- Personal unstressed indirect object pronouns: me, te, le, nos, os, les.
- Reflexive pronouns: me, se te, nos, os, se.
- Emphatic pronouns: a mí me, a ti te...

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Interrogative pronouns

- Qué, cómo, quién, cuándo, por qué...

Prepositions

- Most common prepositions: a, en, por, para, de...

- Prepositions or prepositional expressions of place: en, entre, encima de, debajo de,
dentro de....

Conjunctions

- Frequently used conjunctions: y, o, pero, porque.

Vocabulary

- Introduction and familiarisation with the most useful words for daily situations.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

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TEACHING MATERIAL
Textbook
Corpas, J. et al., Aula Internacional 1 Nueva edición, Difusión.

Recommended complementary reading

(At the discretion of the professor)

- Estopiñá, A., & Sans, N., Pepa Villa, taxista en Barcelona. Fantasmas en la escalera,
Difusión.
- Miquel, L., & Sans, N., Lola Lago detective. Vacaciones al sol, Difusión.
- Rodríguez, E., Un día en Barcelona, Difusión.

Grammar resources
Gramática básica del estudiante de español, Difusión.
Cuadernos de gramática española A1, Difusión.
www.campus.difusion.com
www.vert-taal.com
www.aprenderespanol.org

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Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level A2 (CEFR) Programme

GENERAL AIMS
On completing this course, student should be able to:

- Relate letters to their corresponding sounds, especially homophones (b/v, c/z) and
homographs (c, g, before e/i and a/o/u).
- Recognise and pronounce the following with basic Spanish intonation of: declaration,
exclamation, interrogation and hesitation.
- Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that
can be understood by a Spanish speaker.
- Understand basic information (street signs, information about third parties,
advertisements and instructions about basic academic tasks) and be able to
communicate in everyday situations.
- Take part in simple conversations about events in daily life: habitual communicative
situations (forms of social interactions), personal relations (talking about experiences,
asking for and giving opinions, talking about customs and comparing) and relations
with the professionals and staff of public services (asking for information, assistance,
requesting a service).
- Read and gain a general and detailed understanding of simple texts that allow basic
activities to be carried out.
- Reading and accurate understanding of specific texts with the aid of a dictionary:
academic programmes, recipes, cinema listings, etc.
- Reading aloud texts written by themselves and by others.
- Using simple structures to narrate present, past and future events. Describe
proposals and intentions.
- Fill in forms; write personal notes, postcards or informal letters.
- Take notes and transcribe oral messages.
- Apply strategies to increase understanding of oral and written messages, deduce
meaning from context, associate meanings, discover similarities by comparison with
another language, and identify internationalisms.
- Use Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of the reading
activity (between students and the teacher).
- Start using a bilingual dictionary.

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LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Social function

- Give and respond to greetings with different degrees of formality. Ask and respond to
questions. Say goodbye.
- Say thank you. Apologise. Ask for and give simple excuses. Use the usual forms of
courtesy (show interest in people, offer to do something, invite somebody to do
something).
- Introduce themselves and other people.
- Use the usual forms of starting or ending a telephone conversation.

Informative function

- Identifying yourself and other people. Asking for and giving personal information
(name, surname, age, profession, address, date of birth,nationality, civil status, family
status, etc.).
- Describing someone by their physical appearance and what they are doing. Asking
for and giving succinct information about people's character.
- Asking for and giving general information about places: address and location
compared with others, such as (external and internal characteristics) and how to get
there (street directions, distance, means of transport).
- Asking for and giving basic information about objects: saying the name, asking about
and saying what they are, what they are for, describing them (shape, material,
volume) and situating them (where they are and where they need to be put).
- Asking for and giving the necessary information for buying something: quality,
quantity, colour, size, price.
- Asking and telling the time: the time, timetables, carrying out an action.
- Asking for and giving information about activities and stories: what someone is doing
in the present or the past, what is happening at a given time in the past or present,
daily routines in the present and the past.
- Asking for and giving information about someone's state of health or their mood:
asking and telling how you feel, where it hurts, describing symptoms.
- Establishing comparisons between two actions, qualities or objects.

Expressive function

- Expressing happiness or sadness.

- Expressing satisfaction or a lack of satisfaction likes and dislikes enthusiasm or
boredom.
- Expressing interest, admiration for something or someone. Expressing a lack of
interest, indifference or rejection.
- Expressing physical pain or relief.
- Expressing fear, fright, and unease. Expressing confidence and conviction.
- Expressing surprise

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Evaluative function

- Expressing agreement or disagreement with someone or about something.

- Expressing tastes and preferences.
- Valuing and comparing.
- Asking for and giving opinions.
- Justifying an opinion, valuation or statement.

Inductive function

- Asking someone to do something (asking a favour, asking for help, or to do an errand

etc.). Offering or refusing to do something. Giving excuses.
- Asking and giving permission to do something.
- Expressing desires, wishes, intentions or proposals. Asking about a proposal for
action.
- Making an invitation. Accepting or refusing an invitation.
- Proposing an activity. Agreeing to the terms of a meeting: place, day and time.
- Asking if something can be done, should be done or if it is better not to do it.Meta-
linguistic function
- Ask how to say something in Spanish.
- Asking and telling how to spell a word and which punctuation signs are necessary.
- Asking a telling about understanding an expression.
- Asking someone to repeat something, to talk louder or slower.
- Asking for clarification about the meaning of a word or an expression.

GRAMMATICAL CONTENT
Determinants and Quantifiers
- Contract articles: al, del.
- Male, female and neuter demonstratives.
- Possessives as adjectives: (mi, tu, su, nuestro/a, vuestro/a, su, mis, tus, sus,
nuestros/as, vuestros/as, sus.) and pronouns (mío, tuyo, suyo...).
- Indefinite pronouns: algún, ningún, algo, nada, alguien, nadie.
- Cardinal and ordinal numbers.
- Grades of meaning: muy, bastante, demasiado, poco.

Nouns and adjectives

- Gender and number. Irregular singular and plural agreements.

Verbs

- Present tense of regular and irregular verbs and their use with expressions of time
(siempre, todos los días normalmente, a veces...).

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- Consolidating the use of 'haber' as an auxiliary with its use as a verb in its own right
and in contrast to the verb 'estar'.
- Regular and irregular reflective verbs.
- Verbs with emphatic pronouns: interesar, parecer, encantar, doler (―A mí me duele
la cabeza‖).
- Modal verbs of obligation (tener que), desire (querer) and possibility (poder).
- Future indicative. Most common regular and irregular reflexive verbs.
- Future expressions. Use of the present in future expressions (tomorrow, next
week...).
- Simple past tense: regular and irregular forms.
- Indefinite past tense: most common regular and irregular verbs(hablar, levantarse,
llegar, ir, ser, venir...).
- Contrasting the simple past the the indefinite past tenses using the most frequent
expressions of time (hoy, ayer, esta semana, la semana pasada...).
- Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs: introductionto the contrast between the
imperfect and the past and indefinite tenses.
- Regular and irregular affirmative imperative. The use of 'Usted' in the imperative.
- Expressions with estar + gerund: in present and imperfect tenses

Adverbs

- Adverbs of state: bien, mal, regular, fatal...

- Adverbs of place: aquí, allí, dentro, fuera, arriba, abajo...
- Adverbs of time: ahora, después, luego, ya, todavía no...
- Adverbs of comparison: más...que, menos...que, tan/ tanto...como.

Pronouns

- Personal stressed subject pronouns: yo, tú, él...

- Personal unstressed direct object pronouns: me, te, lo, la, nos, os, los, las.
- Personal unstressed indirect object pronouns: me, te, se, le, nos, os, se, le.
Combinations of direct and indirect pronouns.
- Reflexive pronouns: me, se te, nos, os, se.
- Emphatic pronouns: a mí me, a ti te...
- Relative pronouns: que.

Prepositions

- Most common prepositions: a, en, por, para, de, hacia, con, sin...
- Prepositions or prepositional expressions of place: en, entre, encima de, debajo de,
dentro de...

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Conjunctions

- Frequently used conjunctions: y, o, pero, porque. Conjunctions that change before a

vowel: y/e, o/u.Interrogative particles
- Qué, cómo, quién, cuándo, por qué...Vocabulary—Formation of words by derivation.
Word families: plata/plateado.—Superlatives and diminutives.—Irregular
comparatives: mayor, menor, mejor...

Interrogative particles

- Qué, cómo, quién, cuándo, por qué...

Vocabulary

- Formation of words by derivation. Word families: plata/plateado.

- Superlatives and diminutives.
- Irregular comparatives: mayor, menor, mejor...

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

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TEACHING MATERIAL
Textbook
Corpas, J. et al., Aula Internacional 2 Nueva edición, Difusión.

Recommended complementary reading

(At the discretion of the professor)
- Colección Grandes personajes, Difusión.
- Colección Perfiles pop, Difusión.
- Serie Lola Lago detective, Difusión.

Grammar resources
- Gramática básica del estudiante de español, Difusión.
- Cuadernos de gramática española A2, Difusión.
- www.campus.difusion.com
- www.vert-taal.com
- www.aprenderespanol.org

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Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level B1.1 (CEFR) Programme

GENERAL AIMS
On completing this course, student should be able to:

- Improve their level of accuracy in pronunciation and intonation in Spanish.

- Use Spanish to interact appropriately in the classroom, recognising the
communication mechanisms in operation there.
- Extract specific information from brief oral messages broadcast in public places.
- Participate appropriately in everyday conversations, both face-to-face and by
telephone.
- Recognise moods from the way in which speakers express themselves and react
appropriately.
- Understand in general terms the information in texts about general subjects.
- Understand and extract specific information from real information documents
(posters, advertisements, informative leaflets, events listings, press articles, etc.).
- Read aloud with a reasonable degree of accuracy texts written by themselves or by
others.
- Narrate, orally or in writing, past, present or future events, organising the information
adequately.
- Write letters, personal notes and postcards in an informal style.
- Develop basic strategies for comprehension and expression: deduce the meaning of
a word from its context, relate words with common roots, etc.
- Take notes and transcribe oral messages.
- Extend knowledge of social and cultural aspect that encourages integration of the
student into their learning environment.
- Consolidate the use of the bilingual dictionary and begin to use a monolingual
dictionary.

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Social function

- Use conventional forms to ask for permission and to ask for a favour.
- Say goodbye.

Informative function

- Describe and identify people or objects that could be in a group.

- Ask someone what sortof mood they are in and tell them what mood you are in.

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- Request and give information about public transport (timetables, activities, location,
etc.), travelling inside and out of the city (means of transport, timetables, services,
distances, prices, etc.).
- Talk about projects or future intentions explaining the conditions.
- Formulate hypotheses and suppositions from real or possible events.
- Situate an event or a story in time by ordering the parts (ask and say when
something happened and in what order the events took place).
- Talk about daily activities in the present and past tenses, explaining the
circumstances.
- Transmit information about one person to another.

Expressive function

- Express pleasure and displeasure.Expressing surprise.

- Express interest or indifference.
- Offer someone encouragement.
- Express doubt or certainty.
- Express annoyance or irritation.Evaluative function
- Express tastes and preferences. Compare them with others.
- Expressing agreement or disagreement with someone or about something.
- Express and ask for opinions.
- Accept the opinion or reasoning of others.

Inductive function

- Offer to do something.
- Invite someone to do something. Accepting or refusing an invitation. Make a date
with someone.
- Demand something, order someone todo something. Express prohibition.
- Express an intention to do something and ask someone what they intend doing.
- Ask for and give advice.
- Warn someone of something.
- Ask for, give or deny permission.
- Make a complaint.

Meta-linguistic function

- Take someone's word for something.

- To counter-question and ask something again.
- Enumerate and order the principles of an argument.
- Express certainty about an announcement

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GRAMMATICAL CONTENT
Determinants

- Indefinite pronouns: revision and consolidation.

- Neuter demonstratives: use and syntax.
- Indefinite pronouns: revision and consolidation.
- Grades of meaning: revision and consolidation.

Nouns and adjectives

- Gender and number: revision and extension. Special cases: el cava, el idioma...
- useof some adjectives with the verbs “ser” and “estar”.
- Nouns derived from adjectives: leal/lealtad, etc.

Verbs

- Verbs with emphatic pronouns: apetecer, doler, molestar, indignar, preocupar...

- Future verb forms: revision and consolidation.
- Negative imperativeof regular and irregular verbs. Use of “tú” and “usted” in
imperative forms.
- Contrast between the simple past and the indefinite past: revision and consolidation.
- Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs: different uses.
- Contrast between the three indicative past tenses (perfect, indefinite and imperfect).
- Frequently used prepositional verbs: quedarse en, llamar desde, quedar con, pasar
por...
- Simple conditional of frequently used regular and irregular verbs.
- Verbal agreements in the expression of a possible or probable condition with the
particle si ("Si tengo dinero...").
- Verbs which use pronominal constructions: caerle bien/mal a alguien, llevarse
bien/mal con alguien.
- Present subjunctive of frequently used regular and irregular verbs.
- Time expressions using cuando + indicative/subjunctive.

Adverbs

- Adverbs of state: así, de esa manera, en absoluto...

- Adverbs of time: aún (no), todavía (no), dentro de, ya.
- Adverbs of doubt: quizá/s, tal vez, a lo mejor, probablemente...

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Pronouns

- Combination of DO and IO pronouns (enclytic and proclytic): dímelo/ no me lo

digas...
- Emphatic pronouns: a mí me..., a ti te...; revision and consolidation.
- Reflexive pronouns: revision and consolidation.
- Que: revision and consolidation.
- Interrogative pronouns: contrastingqué/cuál.

Prepositions

- Revision and extension of propositions and preprepositional elements: en, con, sin, por,
para, desde, a, hasta, hacia, entre...
- Interrogative particles with prepositions: a quién, por quién, por dónde, desde dónde, desde
cuándo...

Conjunctions

- Frequently used conjunctions.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

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TEACHING MATERIAL
Textbook
Sans, N. et al., Bitácora 3(libro del alumno y cuaderno de ejercicios), Difusión / Corpas, J.
et al., Aula 3 Nueva edición, Difusión.

Recommended complementary Reading

(At the discretion of the professor)
- Colección Grandes personajes, Difusión.
- Serie Lola Lago detective, Difusión.
- Serie Pepa Villa, taxista en Barcelona, Difusión.

Grammar resources
- Gramática básica del estudiante de español, Difusión.
- Cuadernos de gramática española B1, Difusión.
- www.campus.difusion.com
- www.vert-taal.com
- www.aprenderespanol.org
- www.rae.es

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Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level B1.2 (CEFR) Programme

GENERAL AIMS

To succeed at this level student must demonstrate their capacity for linguistic activity that
allows them to cover the following objectives in all the basic skills with a sufficient level of
communicational effectiveness:

Speaking

- Communicate with a level of confidence on both habitual and less habitual matters
related to their personal interests and specialist field.
- Understand and make adequate use of forms of social interaction according to the
situation: greeting people, saying goodbye, apologizing, wishing someone luck,
congratulating, etc. (standard and colloquial).
- Understand brief and clear public messages: announcements, signs, instructions,
answering machines, most material recorded or broadcast in standard Spanish, etc.
(standard).
- Hold clear conversations related to immediate daily needs (at a restaurant, at the
bank, in shops, in public services, etc.) (Standard).
- Use Spain as the classroom language: understand the teacher's explanations,
express doubts and make contributions (standard).
- Hold face to face or telephone conversations with known and unknown people on
personal questions and understand the possible replies, ask for (if necessary)
clarification, more detail or repetition of the explanation (standard and colloquial).
- Describe a range of topics of interest, presenting them as a linear sequence of
events.
- Talk with reasonable fluency about fact and events following a linear sequence of events
(standard and colloquial).
- Distinguish basic meaning from longer spoken information, presentations, interviews,
documentaries, etc. (standard and colloquial).
- use strategies to improve communicative capacity using resources limited to the use of
Spanish (paraphrasing, asking for help, recovering information from the speaker, etc.
(standard and colloquial).

Writing

- Understand texts aimed at the general public: poster, notes, warnings, information
leaflets, advertisements, programmes, institutional information, administrative forms,
etc. (standard).
- Fill in official forms asking for personal information (standard).
- Answer questionnaires related to professional activity, studies, personal interests:
surveys, evaluative tests, forms, etc. (standard).

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- Understand and write message related to daily activities: note4s, postcards, personal
letters, etc. (standard and colloquial).
- Write formal requests, personal curricula and official standard documents (standard).
- Understand basic press news information, opinion articles or journalistic reports
(standard.)
- Read brief literary texts written in simple language: brief narrations, adapted novels,
etc. (standard).
- Read specialised language texts related to professional activity, studies or personal
interests: magazine articles, technical documents, etc. (standard).
- Handle consultation material necessary for the Spanish classes: Dictionaries,
Grammar resources, Texts books.
- Be able to argue a case in writing with a reasonable level of coherence.

Speaking-writing activities

- Take notes from brief, clear and precise oral information, spoken in a standard
register.
- Take down as dictation brief oral messages (standard).
- Read aloud texts written by themselves or by others with a sufficient level of accuracy
that they may be understood by a native speaker without any difficulty.
- Summarise information taken from a written text or oral message (standard).

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

Social function

- Use the most usual and conventional forms of courtesy and social behaviour.

Informative function

- Describe one or others.

- Describe and comment on changes in people.
- Give information about things that they have seen, heard or read.
- Transmit information, opinions or comments from other people.
- Express hypothesis and supposition.
- Announce proposals. Make plans.

Expressive function

- Express satisfaction or a lack of satisfaction, deception, happiness and boredom.

- Express a desire.
- Expressing surprise and disconcertment.
- Express concern.
- Express sorrow, pain or affliction.

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Evaluative function

- Valuing and comparing personal qualities.

- Express interest, preferences, rejection, aversion and indifference.
- Give, justify and defend an opinion. Show agreement and disagreement with respect
to the opinions of others. Defend an opinion with arguments.

Inductive function

- Ask someone to do something or stop doing something directly (orders, requests,

prohibitions) or indirectly (suggestions, advice, warnings).
- Express a wish, desire or need to do something.
- Make a complaint.
- Requesting something, specifying the conditions. Requesting a service.

Meta-linguistic function

- Use of the necessary resources to maintain communication in the case of doubts or

pauses.
- Rectifying and correcting.
- Emphasising part of the discourse.
- Ask for explanations about grammatical content.

GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

Determinants

- Indefinite pronouns: mismo,otro, cualquier...

- Construction (preposition) + definite article + que: con la que, por el que.

Nouns and adjectives

- Abstract nouns: most frequent endings (dulzura, egoísmo, etc.)

- Relative sentences.

Verbs

- Past perfect tense.

- Consolidation of the use of past tenses.
- Conditional tense.
- Present subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs.
- Past subjunctive tense.

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- Imperfect subjunctive of frequently used regular and irregular verbs (venir, hacer,
salir...).
- Consolidation of future verb forms.
- Future perfect.
- Verbs which use pronominal constructions: pasársele algo a alguien, irle bien/mal
algo a alguien, poner/ ponerse...
- Phrasal verbs: acabar de, dejar de, volver a + infinitive; llevar + gerund.
- Verbs of change: hacerse, volverse, etc.
- Impersonal verb forms: with the pronoun 'se'; with the third person plural; with the
third person singular.
- Consolidation of imperative forms.
- Verbal agreement in the expression of the first and second conditionals ("Si hace
buen tiempo...") and improbable situations (“Si me tocara la lotería...”) using 'si'.

Adverbs

- Adverbs of state.
- Adverbs of time: extension.
- Adverbs of doubt: extension.

Pronouns

- Relative pronouns: el/la/los/las que..., quien, cual, cuales.

Prepositions

- Extension of prepositions and prepositional phrases.

Conjunctions

- Revision and extension of conjunctions.

- Introduction to conjunctions and conjunctional phrases of subordination.

Spelling

- Basic accent rules, according to general rules for where the words are stressed (on
the last, penultimate or pre penultimate syllable) and in interrogative particles.

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EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

TEACHING MATERIAL
Textbook
Corpas, J. et al., Aula Internacional 3 Nueva edición, Difusión.

Recommended complementary Reading

(At the discretion of the professor)
- Colección Grandes personajes, Difusión.
- Colección Novela histórica, Difusión.
- Serie Pepa Villa, taxista en Barcelona, Difusión.

Grammar resources
- Gramáticabásica del estudiante de español, Difusión.
- Cuadernos de gramática española B1, Difusión.
- www.campus.difusion.com
- www.vert-taal.com
- www.aprenderespanol.org
- www.rae.es

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Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level B2.1 (CEFR) Programme

GENERAL AIMS
On completing this course, student should be able to:

- Understand without any difficulty any conversation between native speakers on non-
specialist themes, in standard register.
- Follow an oral presentation in an academic environment on subject included in their
studies (lectures, conferences, presentation and contributions by colleagues in the
classroom), write and summarise information from notes taken during the class.
- Understand the overall meaning and extract specific information for different types of
oral and written texts.
- Recognise the basic differences in formal and colloquial registers.
- Recognise attitudes and moods in a speaker from intonation, gestures, rhythm, etc.
- Understand genuine literary texts by contemporary authors, both Spanish and Latin
American, with some lack of vocabulary.
- Extract the main information from texts related to their professional, studies or any
other kind of informative document.
- Take part in conversations, discussions, debates, etc. on general subject matters,
adjusting the discourse to the required register, formal or informal, with an
appropriate control of the Spanish language and recognising idiomatic expressions
appropriate to the level.
- Speak about a subject with clarity and coherence for a brief period of time, suing the
appropriate resources for discourse.
- Write with correct spelling and talk with clarity and coherence about facts (past,
present and future) related to their own situation.
- Write texts (personal letters, formal letters, etc.), adapting the model and using the
appropriate register, vocabulary and style for each type of text.
- Write a report or essay about a specific subject related to their professional field or
studies using appropriate vocabulary, register and style.
- Reproduce orally and in writing information, opinions and stories from other people.
- Use monolingual dictionaries and other necessary reference works to work
independently in the process of learning.

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Social function

- Express gratitude.
- Show an interest in someone.
- Encourage and calm someone down.
- Apologise.

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- Offer congratulations.

Informative function

- Transmit information, orders and instructions from one person to another.

- Narrate any fact or event or information transmitted by other people stating the time
references (previous, simultaneousness, immediacy, etc.).
- Formulate hypotheses referring to the present, the past and the future.
- Describe people, things or processes with a degree of precision and appropriate
shades of meaning (changes that have occurred to people and things).

Expressive function

- Express different moods: happiness, sadness, resignation, satisfaction, anger, hope,

etc.
- Reproach, complain.
- Show interest or rejection.
- Show tastes and sensations.
- Express desires.

Evaluative function

- Asking for and giving opinions: show agreement or disagreement with the opinions of
others.
- Judge and value people and periods (refute valuations).
- Express conditions and request special conditions.

Inductive function

- Arguing to convince, persuade or induce someone to do something.

- Demanding, insisting on the fulfilment of something.
- Threatening.

Meta-linguistic function

- Organising a discourse: starting with a topic, enumerating, arguing a case,

summarising, indicating the conclusion.
- Alluding to a subject.
- Asking for and giving explanations about points of grammar.

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GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

Determinants

- Structures with the neuter article lo(lo que yo digo...).

Nouns and adjectives

- Using adjectives as nouns with the neutral article lo(lo curioso, lo malo...).

Verbs

- Contrast between all indicative pasttenses.

- Present subjunctive.
- Simple past and imperfect subjunctive.
- Past perfect subjunctive.
- Simple and composite conditional tense
- Verbal agreement in the expression of an impossible condition (“Si lo hubiera
sabido...”) using the particle si.
- Future perfect.
- Use of verbs “ser” and “estar” to express different meanings: ser listo / estar listo.
- Pronominal verbs.
- Gerund: expressing a condition.
- Verbs of change: convertirse en/a , llegar a ser, etc.
- Prepositional verbs: preocuparse por, acordarse de...
- Phrasal verbs:·
- estar a punto de + infinitive (“Está a punto de llegar”)
- seguir + gerund (“Sigue fumando”)
- llevar + gerund” (“Llevo diez horas trabajando”)
- llevar + participle (“Llevaban casados tres años cuando...”)
- Introduction to the passive voice

Adverbs

- Adverbial conditional expressions: como, siempre que, siempre y cuando, depende

de...
- Adverbial time expressions: así que, en cuanto, antes de que, hasta que, mientras,
mientras tanto, de repente...
- Adverbs ending in –mente: efectivamente.

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Pronouns

- Neuter pronouns: esto, eso, aquello, lo (“Eso no lo discute nadie”).

Prepositions

- Extension of the use of prepositions and prepositional sayings (por tanto, por si
acaso, por cierto...).

Conjunctions

- Extension of conjunctional expression of subordination.

Spelling

- Extension.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

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TEACHING MATERIAL
Textbook
Corpas, J. et al., Aula Internacional 4 B2.1 Nueva edición, Difusión

Recommended complementary reading

(At the discretion of the professor)
- Specific for students
- Colección Novela histórica, Difusión.
- Colección Descubre, Difusión.
- Genuine literary texts (fiction or essays) by contemporary Spanish or Hispanic
American authors.

Grammar resources
- Las claves del nuevo DELE B2, Difusión.
- www.campus.difusion.com
- www.vert-taal.com
- www.aprenderespanol.org
- www.rae.es
- www.fundeu.es

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Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level B2.2 (CEFR) Programme

The advancedlevel certificate accredits a high level of knowledge of the language, which
allows a person to take part in conversations with native speakers with little or no difficulty
and new grammatical errors and using acceptable pronunciation.

Student achieving this level are able to handle literary texts and documents on any subject
in their field of interest, and write complex texts with very few errors. This is the equivalent
to the Council of Europe definition of Vantage Level.

GENERAL AIMS

To succeed at thislevel student must demonstrate their capacity for linguistic activity that
allows them to cover the following objectives in all the basic skills with a sufficient level of
communicational effectiveness:

Speaking

- Use a broad knowledge of the formal aspectsof language to achieve a high degree of
precision and appropriateness, both in comprehension and expression.
- Understand overall meaning (capture the main ideas) and gain a deeper
understanding of theatre plays, films, songs, TV programmes as well as messages or
news in the media.
- Understand spoken messages face to face or without the presence of the speaker
and when ambient noise, speed and pronunciation are unmodified.
- Understand the attitudes, moods and intentions of the people speaking, and the
relationship between them.
- Respond immediately and appropriately in different circumstances.
- Produce more extensive texts with diverse objectives and functions, organising the
ideas and information coherently and comprehensively, showing precision of
expression and a command of the different registers.
- Show a certain command of the use and social conventions of the language and the
different registers.
- Write clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of topics
including those in their specialist area, highlighting the most significant aspects to
support them.
- Use a broad vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions as well as a variety of
connectors and textual markers.
- Make correct use of the most usual phonemes and suprasegmental features oforal
expression.
- Take part in debates and discussions on topics of general interest or news with
sufficient fluency and spontaneity, showing good capacity for arguing a case.

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- Use linguistic and learning strategies to reflect on and correct the main shortfalls in
expression and comprehension.
- Understand and use expressions and idioms used frequently in formal and informal
registers.

Writing

- Use broad knowledge of the formal aspects of language to achieve a high degree of
precision and appropriateness, both in comprehension and expression.
- Understand the main ideas and extract specific information from different types of
texts (informative, literary, etc.) showing an appreciation of the differences in style
and rhetorical figures.
- Identify the function and typology of a text or document, as well as the intention of the
author or emitter.
- Read and understand a broad range of extensive non-specialist texts.
- Produce more extensive texts with more diverse functions, organising the ideas
coherently and comprehensively, showing precision of expression and a certain
command of the different registers.
- Show a certain command of the use and social conventions of the language and its
different registers.
- Make use of a broad vocabulary including idiomatic expressions as well as a variety
of connectors and textual markers.
- Use the resources and materials at available with ease and efficiency to increase
knowledge and resolve doubts.
- Use linguistic and learning strategies to reflect on and correct errors and
shortcomings in expression and comprehension.
- Understand and use frequent expressions, idioms and saying in both formal and
informal registers.

Speaking-writing activities

- Read written texts aloud with correct pronunciation.

- Take notes from long presentations (conferences, talks, classes, speeches...) in
standard language.
- Write reports from spoken or written information from notes taken previously, in
standard language.
- Synthesise or summarise the information from an exhibitive text, oral or written, in
standard language.

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

In this course the functions encountered in the five previous courses are reviewed,
consolidated, looked at in more depth and enriched with nuances and more precision.

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Social function

- Use the appropriate register for every communicative situation.

Informative function

- Give and ask for information on any subject: request and give confirmation of specific
dates, express conformity and unconformity, etc
- Talk about facts and events making precise time references.
- Explain hypothetical situations referring to the present and the past.
- Define words and concepts.

Expressive function

- Express any kind of feeling or mood.

- Express rights, obligations and prohibitions.Evaluative function
- Express attitudes: express opinions and points of view; ask others for their opinions
with cohesive and well-organised personal reasons, justification or arguments.
- Evaluate things or ideas using comparisons and expressive figures.—Evaluate
actions and their consequences.
- Talk about own abilities and the abilities of others.

Inductive function

- Explain proposals and plans of action.

- Propose projects to be carried out jointly.
- Ask for permission and give it with conditions.

Meta-linguistic function

- Structure the discourse: open and close oral and written discourse; emphasise,
summarise, appropriately structure the sentence and discourse (dialogue, written
text, etc.)
- Ensure and resume communication: ask for an offer to repeat, confirm or clarify
things; express doubts; use strategies for ensuring efficient and fluent
communication.
- Ask for and give clarification on formal and grammatical aspects of Spanish.
- Alluding to a subject (in a formal register).

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GRAMMATICAL CONTENT
In this course the grammatical functions encountered in the five previous courses are
reviewed, consolidated, looked at in more depth and enriched with nuances and more
precision.

Determinants

- Structures using the neuter article lo.

- Reflecting on the presence/absence of the article.

Nouns and adjectives

- Substantives and adjectives: special cases (individual and collective nouns, etc.).
- Word formation: prefixes, suffixes, compounds, origins, cultism, borrowed language,
etc.
- Position of the adjective.

Verbs

- Uses and contrasts of the different indicative/subjunctive tenses.

- Composite conditional.
- Special use of the conditional: future in the past.
- Comparative hypothetical structures: como si + subjunctive.
- Pronominal verbs (ocurrírsele...).
- Colloquial use of the imperfect tense.
- Constructions using the infinitive: “De saber que...”/ “De haberlo sabido...”.
- Prepositional verbs: contribuir a, servir para...
- Composite gerund.
- Impersonal verbs.
- Uses of the passive voice.

Adverbs

- Adverbs ending in –mente: discursive organisers (indudablemente).

- Adverbial conditional expressions: con tal de que, excepto que, salvo que, en caso
de que...
- Adverbial phrases: ojalá + subjunctive.

Pronouns

- Consolidation of relative pronouns with or without prepositions (con el que...).

- Use of the neuter pronoun lo.
- Pronominal constructions: venirle a la memoria...

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Prepositions

- Prepositional expressions: a propósito de, con relación a...

Conjunctions

- Consolidation of the use of conjunctions introducing subordinated clauses.Spelling

- Use of punctuation marks.
- Rules for accents.

Standard language and its use

- Ambits and characteristics of written and spoken language.

Registers

- Characteristics of the registers in use in communications channels.

- Some characteristics of colloquial/formal registers.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

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TEACHING MATERIAL

Textbook
Corpas, J. et al., Aula Internacional 5 B2.2Nueva edición, Difusión / Chamorro, M. D. et
al., Abanico, Difusión

Recommended complementary reading

(At the discretion of the professor)

- Specific for students

- Colección Novela histórica, Difusión.
- Colección Descubre, Difusión.
- Genuine literary texts (fiction or essays) by contemporary Spanish or Hispanic
American authors.

Grammar resources

- Las claves del nuevo DELE B2, Difusión.

- www.campus.difusion.com
- www.vert-taal.com
- www.aprenderespanol.org
- www.rae.es
- www.fundeu.es

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Study Abroad Programme

Spanish Level C1 (CEFR) Programme

GENERAL AIMS

On completing this course, student should be able to:

Speaking

- Use linguistic and non-linguistic resources that allow them to express themselves
fluently and naturally.
- Understand a large part of the connotative weighting of idioms, sayings and
colloquial expression even though they may need to confirm the detailed meanings.
- Use language for social ends (emotional use).
- Express opinions and use resources to take part in and maintain a conversation.
- Make clear and well-structured formal presentations in academic and professional
situations.
- Tackle oral texts of all kinds within their academic, social or professional field.—
Follow an extensive discourse.
- Follow long, complex conversations between third parties with ease.
- Extract information from warnings or public discourse.
- Use paraphrase and other mechanisms to substitute a lack of vocabulary and
structures without completely interrupting the fluency of the discourse.
- Understand sufficiently well to follow long, complex discourses.
- Be able to follow films that use a large number of colloquial expressions and slang.
- Understand and react to elements of non-verbal communication in Spanish culture.
- Follow the rhythm of a debate with ease and argue their position with formality and
conviction.
- Chose an appropriate way of expressing themselves clearly without having to limit
what they want to say.
- Have a wide range of resources available to ensure cohesive and coherent
discourse.

Writing

- Produce written texts expressing opinions, narrative and analysis in a clear, well-
structured and detailed manner showing correct use of the mechanisms of
organisation, cohesion and articulation of the text.

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- Understand extensive texts in detail within their area of speciality, even though they
may need to re-read the more difficult sections.
- Understand all correspondence even though they may need to make occasional use
of a dictionary.
- Search quickly to find relevant information in extensive texts.
- Understand short technical instructions in detail.
- Transmit information with ease and great precision using notes and summaries.
- Write clear and well-structured reports Inprofessional and academic fields.
- Tackle written texts of all kinds in their academic, social or professional field.
- Express themselves without any grave errors of vocabulary.
- Write texts with consistent paragraphing and punctuation.
- Write detailed descriptions and narrations including several topics.
- Be able to give opinions and make statements with degrees of certainty/uncertainty,
probability, etc.

Speaking-writing activities

- Take careful notes from an original that can be used by other people.
- Synthesise information from a formal exhibitive oral or written texts.
- Draw up minutes or reports based on spoken information.

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Informative function

- Ask for and give information prudently, while offering alternatives, indicating that the
previous information is inappropriate and expressing curiosity.
- Describe something clearly from an objective, general to specific and subjective point
of view.
- Identify someone and express implied descriptive details.
- Ask explicitly for information.

Evaluative function

- Invite someone to formulate a hypothesis.

- Express certainly or evidence.
- Express possibility.
- Express knowledge of something.
- Ask for appraisal.
- Give opinions and present counter arguments.

Expressive function

- Express any feeling or mood.

- Ask about someone's mood.

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- Express and ask about wishes and preferences.

Inductive function

- Give an order or instruction directly or indirectly.

- Ask someone a favour directly or indirectly.
- Repeat a previous order or estimate.
- Take up an order, or request with or without reservations.
- Give permission with and without objections.
- Reject a prohibition.
- Cheer someone up.

Social function

- Welcome someone.
- Express and react using the correct register.
- Introduce someone formally and informally.
- Apologise.
- Respond to an apology.
- Say goodbye.

Meta-linguistic function

- Ask and reply to questions about things in general.

- Introduce the theme of a story and react.
- Interrupt.
- Highlight elements.
- Rephrase what has been said.
- Quote.
- Reject a topic or some aspect of a topic.

GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

Nouns

- Change gender as an expression of a change in size (el huerto/la huerta, el barco/la

barca, etc.).

Adjectives

- of character.
- Qualifying colours. Syntagmatic compounds. Concordance (―Tengo dos camisas
gris perla‖).

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- Absolute superlative in adjectives ending in –ble.

Articles

- Definite: optional before subordinate nouns when the factis understood. Obligatory
presence in a relative sentence (“Me alegra el que haya venido” / ―El que nade bien
ganará”).

Demonstratives

- Disparaging values when referring to people.

Possessives

- Preceded by the neuter article lowith unknown or multiple reference or lacking in

importance (“Esto es lo tuyo”).

Quantifiers

- Relative quantifier cuanto with no express or invariable antecedent (“Coge cuanto

quieras”).
- Any invariable, never before a noun.

Pronouns

- Values for Se: in impersonal constructions.

- Exclusive use of the relative pronouns el/la/lo cual –los /las cuales.
- The pronoun sí.
- Relatives:quien / quienes equivalencia con el/la/los/las que.

Adverbs

- Nuancing mechanisms of coordination with meanings of consecution:

consecuentemente, etc.
- Adverbial phrases.
- Intensifiers.

Verbs

- Use of the indicative/subjunctive tenses.

- Verbs of change.
- Verb with different preposition: tender de / tender a.

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Structures

- Lo que... es... (+ que) + SN / inf. / (conjugated verb) (“Lo que no soporto es comer
pescado‖ / ―Lo que me extraña es que no haya llamado”).
- ¿Cómo que (no) + previous statement?
- Conditional sentences with the connector como.

Spelling

- Rules for accents.

- Use of punctuation marks.
- Capitals / small letters

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Exam 50 % Continuous assessment 50%

Writing: 20% Writing: 10%
Speaking: 20% Speaking: 10%
Use of language: 10% Reading: 10%
Listening: 10%
Progress, contribution to the class and attitude: 10%

CORRESPONDENCE OF GRADES (UAB IDIOMES BARCELONA)

Scoring Grade
90% - 100% Sobresaliente
75% - 89,9% Notable
50% - 74,9% Aprobado (Pass)
0% - 49,9% Insuficiente

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TEACHING MATERIAL
Textbook
Chamorro, M. D. et al., El Ventilador, Difusión

Recommended complementary reading

(At the discretion of the professor)
- Specific for students
- Colección Lecturas graduadas. Nivel superior I, Edinumen.
- Genuine literary texts (fiction or essays) by contemporary Spanish or Hispanic
American authors.

Grammar resources
- Las claves del nuevo DELE C1, Difusión.
- www.campus.difusion.com
- www.vert-taal.com
- www.aprenderespanol.org
- www.rae.es
- www.fundeu.es

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