B1 Spanish:
Language and Communication: functional contents
- Requesting, providing and rectifying information: reporting other people’s speech, adding information and explaining motivations, consequences, conditions and aims.
- Expressing one’s opinion: judgements, assessments, agreement and disagreement.
- Expressing knowledge and degree of centrainty: formulating hypotheses, expressing doubts, reservations, probability.
- Expressing obligation, permission and possibility.
- Expressing feelings, preferences, wishes: surprise, fear, regret, complaints.
- Discourse structure: reformulations, digressions, topic change.
- Managing oral communication: self-corrections, paraphrasing, repetition, summing up.
Language as a system: grammatical contents:
- Morphology and use of the subjunctive mode.
- Direct and indirect speech: grammatical transformations.
- Frequent phrasal verbs.
- Subordinate clauses: noun clauses (with infinitive, indicative and subjunctive); conditional, final, modal, concessive and consecutive clauses (with indicative and subjunctive, and introduced by the most frequent conjunctions or conjuctive phrases).
Language and Culture:
- Culture and civilization of Spanish speaking countries.
- Spanish varieties:
- Geography and demography of the Spanish-speaking world
- Peninsular Spanish: multilingualism in Spain; Spanish in contact with other peninsular languages; differentiation of dialects of peninsular Spanish; the Castilian variety; the Andalusian variety
- Spanish in America: historical and social factors in the differentiation of the Spanish language in the American continent; Mexican Spanish; Argentinean Spanish
