- Online
- $425
This course can be applied to the UBC Certificate in Spanish, Practical and Business or taken as a standalone course.
At the Intermediate and Advanced level, you should be able to understand most common and non-technical speech in Spanish, and be able to hold a fairly fluent conversation on a variety of topics.
In this course, focus on improving your conversational fluency by acquiring more complex grammatical structures and sentence formation. Possible grammar topics, based on student needs, may include the advanced level verb tenses (conditional, future anterior, and introduction to subjunctive,) or use of relative pronouns. Increase your language spontaneity through interesting conversational exercises such as debates, presentations, cultural discussions, and small group work using Spanish articles, poetry, websites and more.
Explore Spanish language and culture in an enjoyable, interactive environment, guided by an experienced, native-speaking instructor. Between classes, you can practise your skills using online resources chosen by your instructor.
Course outline
This is not a prescriptive list. Exact course outlines are determined by the instructor to best meet the needs of each class. It is meant to serve as a guideline and suggest what may be covered at this level. It is often necessary to repeat levels in order to become completely comfortable with the skills at each stage with a different teacher and style.
Communicative objectives
- describe people or things in the past
- talk about what one used to do
- tell what one must do
- make polite requests
- use more complex ways of expressing your ideas and opinions
- express long term future actions
- express hypotheses
- make indirect commands
- express uncertainty
- participate in more complex discussions on a variety of topics
- be able to read short articles
Linguistic objectives
- review of pretérito (use and formation)
- more irregular verbs in pretérito
- imperfect
- imperative
- conditional
- comparison of imperfecto and pretérito
- simple future
- review of all tenses
- present subjunctive
- indirect object pronouns
- past subjunctive
How am I assessed?
This is a non-credit course without letter or numerical grades. You receive verbal feedback on your conversation and grammar skills from your instructor during class. Written homework is typically corrected in class. Some lesson modules may include quizzes.
Record of completion
A record of completion will be emailed to students who participate and satisfy the course requirements within two weeks of the course end date.
Technology requirements
You’ll need access to a laptop or desktop computer or tablet, an email account, and internet access and an up-to-date web browser. For real-time classes, you’ll also need access to a video camera and microphone.
Requisites
To register in this class, you should :
- have knowledge of the past tense
- be able to use reflexive verbs
- have knowledge of the pretérito and the imperfect
- be able to give formal commands
Course format
This course is offered 100% online.
About online learning
Our online conversational language courses offer you a real-time virtual classroom experience where you can see and interact with your teacher and classmates. Each week, you log in at a set time to your class using our intuitive learning management platform, Canvas. Through Canvas, you access Zoom, a web conferencing app, for your live class. Just like in a classroom, you do individual, pair and group work, ask questions and receive verbal feedback from your instructor.
Outside of class time, you can access handouts and other materials online at your own pace and rhythm. You might be doing readings or watching videos to prepare for your next class, or practising with the material you have learned in your previous class. You do get out what you put in.
In order for a virtual classroom to be successful, we want to see your faces! Please be prepared to participate with your video turned on. We provide virtual drop-in sessions for you to test out the Zoom app before your first day of class. We will also send you instructions on accessing Canvas before your course begins.