Low Intermediate Spanish Spanish Language Studies Program Summer 2016 July 4-Week - Barcelona

This course will continue to refine the fundamentals of the Spanish language focusing on written and oral communication and comprehension. Vocabulary enhancement, of everyday key words and phrases, will also be a main objective in order for students to gain conversational skills. Students will continue to practice grammar rules including: ser/estar, gustar, tener, the use of the preterit and imperfect verb tenses, learning gender and number agreement, adverbs and adverbial phrases, reflexive pronouns and verbs, future verbs, the imperative and subjunctive forms of verbs. Students will learn to express likes, dislikes, opinions wishes, feelings and judgments. They will also continue to learn how to ask for and give information and describe physical and personality traits. By studying colloquial as well as formal speech, students will practice the basics of Spanish communication and comprehension. In addition, this course will continue learning composition and sentence structures. Lessons will incorporate the four skills of communication: speaking, writing, listening and reading. The elements of composition including spelling, phonetics and punctuation will be studied as well as the construction of descriptive, narrative and persuasive texts. Written narration of events will be taught using adverbial subordination to describe time, place and mood.