Intermediate Cycle: Level 3 and Level 4

At this stage, students acquire broader knowledge of the Spanish language, allowing them to:

• Properly face any situation of everyday life;
• Express suggestions, possibilities, wishes, advises, orders and instructions;
• Express themselves more properly –orally and in writing– about more complex topics (describing the present, narrating situations in the past and reporting other speaker’s speech);
• Understand and independently elaborate an original text of intermediate difficulty.

Grammar
. The use of the impersonal se
. Uses of estar + gerund
. Possessives
. The simple past, irregular forms
. The Past Perfect
. Use of possessive pronouns: double substitution.
. Indirect Speech
. Imperative Mood
. Prepositions: values of por -by- de-of-, en-in.
. Recommending and giving instructions with impersonal forms.
. The use of possessives with Imperative Mood verbs

Mandatory Readings: - Curso de español para extranjeros. Nivel 3. CUI

Grammar
. The Subjunctive
. Querer, desear, esperar -wish, desire, hope (+ que + Subjuntivo): “Quiero que sepas...
. Sentir-feel- , lamentar –to regret-, agradecer, alegrase (de) – to be happy with-, tener miedo (de) –to e afraid of
. Requests
. The diminutive form
. The use of the verb “gustar”
. The use of the Subjunctive Mood Infinitive y Past Imperfect
. Verb Tenses to state agreement and disagreement. “Creo que...I believe that….
“Estoy en total desacuerdo – I completely disagree..., etc.

Mandatory Readings – Curso de español para extranjeros. Nivel 4. CUI