Week 1 - January 19 -21
Presentations. Let’s know each other
Unit 1. Buenas noticias
Talking about news and social media, writing news
Grammar resources: review of forms and uses of the past tenses in Spanish (pretérito indefinido/pretérito perfecto/ pretérito imperfecto/pretérito pluscuamperfecto
Vocabulary resources: newspapers and social networks, verbs of transmission (manifestar, declarar, etc.), temporal markers
Week 2 - January 26 -28
Cont. Unit 1 Buenas noticias
Week 3 - February 2 - 4
Unit 2. ¿Y tu qué opinas?
Expressing opinions, evaluating different options, expressing agreement and disagreement
Grammar resources: the use of the subjunctive mode to express evaluations and opinions (creo que + indicativo / non creo que + subjuntivo, es evidente que, es fantástico que…)
Vocabulary resources: talking about tourism, leissure, describing towns and cities
Week 4 - February 9 -11
Cont. Unit 2
Making a negotiation and establishing conditions
Grammar resources: solo si / siempre que, discourse markers (en primer lugar, en segundo lugar, etc.), the formation of nouns (sustantivación)
Week 5 - February 16-18
Unit 3. Yo nunca lo haría
Giving advice, expressing wishes, describing traditions, making hypothesis (first, second and third conditional)
Tuesday February 16 - QUIZ 1
Week 6 - February 2 -25
Cont. Unit 3
Grammar resources: uses of the conditional tense, te recomiendo / aconsejo /sugiero que + subjuntivo, the imperfect tense of the subjunctive mode, the pretérito pluscuamperfecto of the subjunctive mode
Vocabulary resources: sports, traditions, dar miedo / pereza/ verguenza….
Week 7 - March 2 - 4
Midterm review
Thursday March 4th - MIDTERM EXAM
SPRING BREAK - MARCH 8 -12
Week 8 - March 16 - 18
Unidad 4. Maneras de vivir
Expressing cause and purposes, making proposals, talking about feelings, character and personality
Grammar resources: the use of the subjunctive mode to express feelings in the present and in the past, uses of por and para, sequence of tenses in relative clauses, discourse markers to add, oppose or deny an information
Vocabulary resources: vocabulary to describe personal relations, phrasal verbs
Week 9 - March 23 - 25
Cont. Unit 4
Week 10 - March 30 - April 1st
Talking about food and cooking, writing recipes
Grammar resources: temporal clauses (cuando/en cuanto/ tan pornto como…)
Vocabulary resources: idiomatic expressions with food
Week 11 - April 6 - 8
Unit 5. Lugares con encanto
Talking about cities and describing their qualities
Grammar resources: relative clauses (el que, el cual, del que, en el que, dónde), the passive voice, verbs of perception and opinion + indicative / subjunctive
Vocabulary resources: vocabulary to describe cities and travels
Week 12 - April 13 - 15
Cont. Unit 5
Thursday April 8 - QUIZ 2
Week 13 - April 20 – 22
Unit 6. Se valorará la experiencia
Expressing requirements and conditions
Grammar resources: uses of se in impersonal sentences (se valorará, se tendrá en cuanta, etc.), the infinitivo compuesto (haber estudiado, haber trabajado…)
Vocabulary resources: politics and society, education
Week 14 - April 27 - 29
Final review
ORAL EXAMS/PRESENTATIONS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)