COURSE SYLLABUS: SPEAKING AND WRITING SKILLS

Location: Granada, Spain

Partner Institution: University of Granada

Course Title (English): Speaking and Writing Skills

Course Title (Spanish): Producción oral y escrita

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instructional in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Prerequisites:  Intermediate I Spanish Level

Local Department: Language & Culture (CLCE)

Course Code: CLCE 334

Course Description

Speaking and Writing Skills Intermediate II (B)

Understand and express oneself in general situations that require an exchange of information and show personal attitudes on multiple familiar topics but that are not just related with personal experience.

Speaking and Writing Skills Intermediate I (A)

Understand and express oneself in multiple situations that are not necessarily familiar and that require an exchange of information and personal opinions using complex linguistic structures.

Program Schedule

Speaking and Writing Skills Intermediate I (A)

-Speak of the past I: tell actions with or without relation to the present. Refer to a concrete moment. Refer to a quantity of time. Relate two moments with the past.

-Speak of the past II: talk about habits and their frequency in the present in relation with the past. Describe the past. Tell time and indicate limits.

-Speak of the past III: tell anecdotes and histories. Introduce a perspective to the story.

-Speak of the future: express grades of security with respect to the future. Relate actions in the future.

-Express conditions of medium probability.

-Describe and ask for information about itineraries.

-React to news. Express security.

-Express opinions and react to them. Show agreement and disagreement. Express an attitude to shared information.

-Refer to words I: Repeat what is said. Ask indirectly. Mark changes of spatial and personal reference. Relay what is said.

-Refer to words II: Mark changes of temporal reference. Mark words of reference and their pertinence to the past.

-Ask for information in public services (formal). Indicate advantages and inconveniences.

-Ask and give advice.

-Describe and identify something with which we do not have experience.

-Make a hypothesis. Refer to a hypothesis in the present/future and the immediate past. React before a hypothesis. Express wonder.

-Congratulate, thank and react to congratulations and thanks. Invite, accept and turn down invitations.

-Express ritual desires in specific situations.

-Ask for objects and actions and react to requests. Mark the grade of formality of the request. Offer objects and actions and react to offerings.

Speaking and Writing Skills Intermediate I (A)

-Speak of oneself and others: likes, experiences, opinions, projects, ideals, character.

-Description strategies: define and give examples.

-Speak of personal changes over time.

-Express feelings: pain, hope, fear, joy, sadness, sympathy, tranquility, etc. directly or in respect to events.

-Give and ask advice. Recommend, unadvise and advise of danger. Mark the differences of registry.

-Organize informative texts: interviews.

-Put conditions: Express the grade of probability of a condition. Minimum conditions so that something expressed in a condition can occur. Conditions in which the manner of doing something is the condition for which it can happen. Unlikely conditions.

-Offer and ask for help.

-Define and identify objects, ideas, or people through circumstances. State that these objects, ideas, or people are not known to us.

-Express ideas about objects or personal actions or those of others.

-Formulate instructions. Refer to cited elements.

-Talk about others: refer to their relationship with the speaker.

-Express agreement and disagreement in a conversation.

-Formulate opinions, value and show agreement and disagreement with events.

-Express finality.

-Speak of the past: tell stories. Mark perspective. Correct erroneous statements about the past. Refer to concrete or quantitative moments of time. Talk about the duration of an activity. Mark a moment as pertaining to the past.

-Refer to words and conversations: mark the expiration of something said in the moment of an announcement, mark what was said in the past or avoid the compromise with the expiration of what was said. Give an overview of acts spoken in conversation.

-Express hypothesis. Give and recognize an announcement as a hypothesis. State it explicitly. React to a hypothesis.

-Speak of oneself and others: past experiences, conjectures about the future, love relations, health, family, personality.

-Formulate differences and identify ideas.

-Interpret schematic and formulate rules.

-Formulate opinions, values, and attitudes towards events or possible actions.

-Interpret symbols.

-Recognize accents and phonetic characteristics of distinct varieties of Spanish.

-Past: mark the perspective through the significance of verbs. Recognize and produce types of narrative texts: histories, dreams, anecdotes, stories, articles.

-Discussion: ask for partially made-announcements to be repeated. Mark their expiration.

-Give a summary of spoken acts. Reproduce conversations.

-Make a hypothesis. Mark and recognize the grade of probability that the speaker attributes to the hypothesis that they made. React to a hypothesis.

Course Evaluation

To receive a passing grade the student must attend a minimum of 80% of the classes.

The final grade is determined by:

• The average grade obtained in two exams (this forms the main base of the overall course grade)
• The completion of homework assignments
• Class attendance and participation

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