SEF-LAN7500 - Beginning Spanish Conversation and Grammar Review

Course Description

This course is an additional add-on course in the Beginning Spanish series. The focus of this course will be to enhance the student’s beginning speaking skills in order to allow them to communicate in any setting with increased confidence and fluency. Conversation topics will vary from week to week with the student’s group preference.

This course will also include a grammar review of the following topics:

Regular and Irregular present-tense verbs
Preterite and Imperfect past tense verbs review

Course Outline

Conversations during class meetings may include focusing on topics such as:

Introducing Yourself and Others
Expressing Opinions, Likes, and Dislikes
Striking Up a Conversation
Making Dates and Appointments
Describing People, Places and Things
Expressing Wants and Needs
Making Requests and Offers
Expressing Doubts and Uncertainty
Talking About Future Events
Making a Case or Arguing a Point
Narrating a Story
Retelling a Conversation
Talking About Controversial Issues

Learner Outcomes

Express complicated ideas in any setting and demonstrate intermediate conversational skills in Spanish.
Express a greater understanding of some cultural characteristics of Spanish-speaking countries, and possess greater understanding of literary topics.
Possess the ability to understand unfamiliar topics in literature and films

Notes

Book Required

Please be sure email address is updated as that will be the majority of communication outside of class

Evaluation: participation