GRAMMAR:

- Consolidate all previous course structures.
- Structure of the sentence: sentence and syntagma order.
- Order and intonation of the different types of sentences.
- Agreement and regency among sentence words.
- Relative pronouns and sentences.
- Articles: uses and omissions.
- Others determiners: demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, interrogatives…
- Subject personal pronoun and its complements.
- Presence and absence of subject personal pronoun “yo”.
- Uses of indicative and subjunctive tenses.
- Different ways to express future actions.
- Indicative, subjunctive, infinitive and verbal periphrasis in order to express order, desire, future tense, doubt, condition, hypothesis, restrictions, goal, cause, consequence…
- Indirect speech.
- Active and passive sentence.
- Uses of prepositions with their usual values and verbs and adjectives taking preposition. Prepositional sentences.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION:

- Follow a conversation and react to the exchanges addressed to him/her suitably in case he/she can ask for clarifications or repetitions.
- Follow the main points in a discussion carried out in a Spanish standard and with a clear pronunciation.
- Interact about known topics with certain confidence.
- Exchange, verify and confirm information and opinions.
- React to new situations and explain the reasons of their difficulties.
- Control his/her own comprehension and ask for clarifications or repetitions in case it’s needed.
- Understand factual information on topics about daily life, labour environment and leisure, recognizing general information and specific data.

READING COMPREHENSION:

- Understand usual letters and faxes, recognizing the specific communicative purposes (ask and provide information or explanations, complaint, to acknowledge receipt of something, give thanks…)
- Catch the formality, especially from greetings and farewells.
- Understand the descriptions of events, feelings and desires in order to correspond with friends.
- Read general text or text about his/her speciality.
- Locate specific information in long texts and compile the information from different sources in order to carry a specific task.
- Recognize the meaningful points in news or articles not very complex about general topics.
- Identify conclusions on argumentative text clearly articulated.
- Follow the arguments and understand the intention of literary text close to his/her interests.
- Understand rules written clearly (about safety, behaviours, advices…)
- Follow instructions.

SPEAKING:

- Interact to both usual and unusual topics related to his/ her personal interests and speciality with certain confidence.
- Exchange, check and confirm information.
- Tackle situations less usual and explain the reason of a problem.
- Take part on usual conversations and discussions about general topics, about information, instruction and problem solving exchanges, when it is use Spanish standard and its pronounce clearly.
- Tackle, at the drop of a hat, conversations related to daily life issues.
- Express and react to feelings such as surprise, happiness, sadness, interest or indifference.
- Explain the reasons of a problem, discuss about the steps should be followed, compare and contrast alternatives.
- Make short comments about other people’s point of view.
- Solve situations less usual in shops, post office, banks; e.g., return a item, make a complaint or reclamation.

WRITING:

- Write notes, postcards, personal letters to specific reader in order to establish contact, congratulate, ask for or provide information, ask for a favour, give thanks, ask for apologizes, describe experiences, feelings and events.
- Write letters for giving news and expressing ideas on abstract an cultural topics, such as music and movies.
- Write notes providing information or asking explanation about people related to services such as teachers and other people around him/her, emphasizing the most important aspects.
- Write cohesion texts on several daily life topics belonging on his/her interest field.
- Write simple and detailed descriptions on several daily life topics belonging on his/her interest field.
- Explain the own experiences, describing feelings and reactions in simple and structured texts.
- Write simple essays.
(837b) Students will take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining their views.
(837b) Students will present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion.
(837b) Students will express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
Writing:
(837b) Students will write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to their interests.
(837b) Students will write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view.
(837b) Students will write letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences.
(837b) Students will express themselves in clear, well-structured text, expressing points of view at some length.
(837b) Students will write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what they consider to be the salient issues.
Reading:
(837b) Students will read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints.
(837b) Students will understand contemporary literary prose (fragments).
(837b) Students will understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style.
(837b) Students will understand specialized articles and longer technical instructions.
Listening:
- Students will understand extended speech and lectures with a familiar topic.
- Students will understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided structured and when relationships whether live or broadcast, even when the topic is reasonably familiar.
- Students will understand most TV news and current affairs programmes.
- Students will understand 65% of films in standard dialect.