課程概述 Course description
This elective course will help the students enrolled in Spanish II classes (giving preference to the FLLD) to practice conversational Spanish. This course will be the natural continuation of the Spanish Conversation: Beginners that will be offered to Spanish I students in their second semester. We expect to create courses of 10 students each, and not going beyond a number of 12. The eight sections of this course will be offered in a great variety of different hours, to facilitate the students to find the most suitable for them. The course will deal with topics of broad interest to complement the regular language classes.

課程目標 Aim of the course
The aim of the course is to deal with the chronic teaching problem in the class of conversation when offering Foreign Languages courses to large groups of students, and to initiate them in preparing the DELE and the FLPT (LTTC) exams.

課程要求 Requirements
It should be necessary to be enrolled at the same time in Spanish II (that means they must have taken and passed Spanish I).

參考書目（教科書）Textbook and References
- Materials provided by the teachers based in the standard exams of the “Diploma Espanol de Lengua Extranjera” (DELE); or in the textbook: Cronometro (2007)
- Gonzalez, Para Jugar (1997); Diego, Al habla. Tacticas de conversacion (1995), Encinar, Palabras, palabras (1997), etc.

評量方式 Grading:
The grading will follow the standard of the DELE exam (Initial level). Every session will be evaluated, and consequently, there will not be a final exam. The trend’s evolution of grades of the evolution of the students will be utilized for improvement of the program.

進度 Syllabus

第1週 Advice:
Role-play: ask for advice, give advice
第2週 Talk about the future:
Role-play: express hypothesis about the future, express probability
第3週 Compliments:
Role-play: value positively and negatively a person or a situation
第4週 Quality of life
Role-play: express unreal conditions about the present
第5週 Character:
Role-play: describe a person’s character, talk about unlikely wishes
第6週 Feelings and emotions I
Role-play: express emotions, happiness, pity, sadness,etc.
第7週 Feelings and emotions II
Role-play: express indifference, worry, surprise.
第8週 Ecology and the environment
Role-play: talk about world issues, suggest measures to solve them
第9週 期中考

第10週 Advertising
Role-play: commenting advertisements, expressing opinions about them
第11週 Mass media
Role-play: give opinions about news
第12週 Personal relations
Role-play: express likes and dislikes, talk about relationships
第13週 Stress I
Role-play: talk about modern life’s pros and cons
第14週 Stress II
Role-play: give opinions about different lifestyles
第15週 Vacations I
Role-play: narrating a past vacation
第16週 Vacations II
Role-play: describing a place for a holiday in the future
第17週 Important decisions in life
Role-play: expressing regret, expressing unreal conditions
第18週 期末考