Specialization Cycle: Level 7, Level 8, Level 9 and Level 10

In the specialization levels, students widen and deepen the already acquired knowledge of the Spanish language, enabling them to:

• Improve their oral and written production, developing more accuracy, fluency and a register of their own;
• Use vocabulary and grammatical structures wit increased accuracy;
• Develop strategic skills;
• Efficiently identify and produce different types of texts;
• Analyze literary and non-literary texts;
• Become acquainted with examples of Argentine and Latin American literature.

* Upon completion of Level 7 students will be able to interact in :

Functions:

. Discuss and comment on the process of learning Languages
. Describe and compare advantages and disadvantages of different ways of living.
. Focus and discuss on common writing mistakes
. Giving opinions and discussing about habits, routines, beliefs and popular devotions
. Description of extraordinary facts, events, and make hypothesis of them.
. Express agreement and disagreement stating different points of view.
. Description and advertising goods. Promoting, sales, etc.
. Talk about the future

Grammar points:

. Pronominal verbs combines with nouns, infinitives, and subjunctive. “Aunque” Even though, Although, Though.
. Expressing necessity.
. Comparisons, comparative connectors and expressions related to them.
. Verbs of thinking combined with Indicative and Subjunctive.
. Impersonal formal forms.
. Passive forms, impersonal “se”
. Verbs and expressions of feeling. Use of connectors. Temporal correlations. Forms for making hypothesis
. Sentences using subjunctive, indicative, simple and compound futures.
. Expressions of certainty.
. Phrases to help retelling anecdotes, episodes, stories.
. Temporal phrases in the past
. Expressing objectives using “para”.
. Speech connectors combined with indicative and subjunctive.
. Punctuation.
. Other expressions to help talk about the future.

Mandatory Readings: Textbook by Prof. Lucrecia Ochoa, CUI, Buenos Aires 2007
Argentine and Latin American story selection

Functions:

. Expressing reproach and regret about the past.
. Talk about what happened, but should not have and vice versa. Feeling sorry for what has or has not happened.
. Talking about the past and its relation with the present time.
. Commenting on different aspects of the labor world: changes, problems, finding solutions.
. Justifying opinions to support or reject
. Commenting on the scientific breakthroughs highlighting their advantages or disadvantages.
. Expressing and contrasting with your own and others´ points of view.
. Developing abilities for reading comprehension, taking notes and making graphics.
. Writing skills and self correction of mistakes.

Grammar points:

. Conditional Statements. Connectors for conditionals.
. Coativos verbs. Direct Speech
. All uses of “se”
. All uses of “lo”.. Directo Object. “Lo” + adjective.
. Predicative Complement.
. Uses of gerunds

Mandatory Readings: Textbook by Prof. Lucrecia Ochoa, CUI, Buenos Aires 2007
Argentine and Latin American story selection

Functions:
. Commenting on unreal and strange imaginative situations.
. Talking about dreams. Contrasting ideas.
. Refuting arguments.
. Presenting an argumentative text in formal registry.
. Making questions
. Giving clear and precise opinions
. Criticizing through arguments and justifications using speech elements.
. Exchanging information on Internet security, expressing advantages and disadvantages
. Expressing warnings,

Grammar points:
. Auxiliary verbs. Characteristics of verbal phrases with auxiliaries. Combination of auxiliaries.
. Uses of pronouns.
. Uses of modal verbs to express obligation and probability.
. Uses of prepositions ruled by verbs.
. Questions beginning with prepositions.
. Word order
. Use of interrogative pronouns.
. Expressions to deny or to reassure.
. Introductory and explanatory world building sentences
. Uses of articles.
. Other verbs needing prepositions
. Gender
. Structure of a monograph, its steps to writing one.

Mandatory Readings: Textbook by Prof. Lucrecia Ochoa, CUI, Buenos Aires 2007
Argentine and Latin American story selection

Functions:

. To define and to redefine
. Understanding argumentative texts under high degree of subjectivity
. Understanding documentaries and discuss them.
. Reading, discussing and stating your opinions of a story.
. Talking about others´opinions and confronting them with yours.
. Stating your own judgments.
. Elaborating argumentative texts
. Writing definitions in an objective registry from a subjective perspective.
. Expressing feelings throughout lyrics.
. Talking about hypothetical situations in the past, present and future.
. Arguing about a controversial topic
. Writing an essay
. Making up interviews to look for specific information or asking for opinions.
. Organizing a bibliographical research
. Setting out a written and oral research.

Grammar points:
. Correct use of all Spanish Tenses
. Correct use of temporal expressions.
. Correct use of prepositions in temporal expressions.
. Expressing cause and consequence.
. Use of connectors
. To organize the correct information within a phrase.
. Correction of common mistakes.
. Review of hypothetical expressions (conditionals and conjectural future)
. Word order. The position of the subject. The position of adjectives

Mandatory Readings: Textbook by Prof. Lucrecia Ochoa, CUI, Buenos Aires 2007
Argentine and Latin American story selection