Week 1 - September 6 - 8
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 - September 13 - 15 - 16
Cont. Unit 1 Buenas noticias
September 16 - MAKE UP DAY (for Thursday November 24)
Week 3 - September 20 - 22
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 - September 27 - 29
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 - October 4 - 6
Cont. Unit 2
QUIZ 1 - Tuesday October 4th
Week 6 - October 11 - 13
Unit 3. Yo nunca lo haría
Giving advice, expressing wishes, describing traditions, making hypothesis (first, second and third conditional)
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 - October 18 - 20 - 21
Cont. Unit 3
October 21 - Make up day (for November 1)
Week 8 - October 25 - 27
Midterm review
MIDTERM EXAM - Thursday October 27
Week 9 - November 3
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 10 - November 8 - 10
Cont. Unit 4
Week 11 - November 15 - 17
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 - November 22
Cont. Unit 5
Week 13 - November 29 - December 1 - 2
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
QUIZ 2 - Tuesday November 29
December 2 - Make up day (for December 8)
Week 14 - December 6
Final review
ORAL EXAMS/PRESENTATIONS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)