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Overview: Extra Information
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Course Outline
Course Outline
Below are the main themes and outcomes for each week. Each unit also contains teaching videos, listening activities, reading activities, practical exercises, and cultural information related to the unit theme.
Semana 1: ¿Permitido o prohibido?
- Learn complex structures used to express rules: what is prohibited, permitted or required
- Practice reading signs in Spanish
- Learn new ways to construct impersonal statements
- Review the imperfect past tense, forms and use
- Discuss customs from Argentina
Semana 2: El mundo del trabajo
- Discuss workplace norms and workers’ rights
- Practice using quantifiers correctly
- Study the verb soler in all tenses
- Increase ability to express opinions
- Discuss customs from Colombia
Semana 3: Volver a empezar
- Discuss the challenges of new life phases
- Learn to correctly use verb phrases
- Review the preterite past tense, forms and uses
- Practice narrating past experiences and plans for future changes
- Examine uses and forms of darse cuenta de, irse and costar
Semana 4: La formación profesional y personal
- Discuss professional training and formal education
- Continue discussing past events with desde and hace
- Talk about work experience, past and present
- Listen to real-life interviews with people who have reduced stress and improved quality of life with radical career and life changes
Semana 5: Mañana
- Discuss predictions for the future
- Review the future tense, forms and uses
- Learn to formulate hypotheses
- Study the verbs prever and prevenir
Semana 6: ¿La utopía o la distopia?
- Talk about the future and probability with if clauses
- Deepen understanding of the future tense
- Continue learning to discuss opinions and emotions
- Study the verb suponer
- Discuss how the future is imagined in movies, books and television
Semana 7: Cuéntame
- Discuss film and literary genres
- Distinguish between telling jokes, gossip and chatting
- Review direct and indirect pronouns
- Study the verb mantener
- Learn about emerging professions in Mexico
Semana 8: ¿De qué trata?
- Practice summarizing films and novels
- Grow your ability to tell stories and narrate actions in sequence
- Learn common connectors that express order, cause, consequence and opposition
- Examine techniques for telling stories and jokes with the present tense
- Contrast tratar, tratar de and tratarse de
- Learn about the Colombian television series Yo soy Betty, la fea
Semana 9: Las campañas publicitarias
- Discuss marketing strategies
- Learn about the three moods in Spanish: the indicative, the imperative and the subjunctive
- Study informal affirmative and negative commands
- Practice forming commands with object pronouns
- Contrast the different meanings and uses of dejar
- Learn about famous holiday ad campaigns in Spain
Semana 10: Busque y compare
- Discuss slogans and brand imaging
- Learn to form and use formal affirmative and negative commands
- Practice using double object pronouns in commands
- Learn about the world of online influencers
Semana 11: Los problemas sociales
- Discuss current social challenges
- Learn about writing formal letters
- Practice present subjunctive conjugations
- Study when and how to use the subjunctive form to express requests, demands and to offer recommendations
- Improve your ability to recommend solutions to common social problems
Semana 12: ¡Basta ya!
- Discuss ongoing protests and demonstrations
- Learn more irregular subjunctive forms
- Practice using common expressions with the subjunctive to wish people well
- Practice new uses of the subjunctive with cuando and ojalá
- Discuss indigenous cultures in Peru and in other parts of Latin American
Earn Continuing Education Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
| Instructional Hours | 48 |
| University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units | 4.8 |