B1 Spanish level
General Objectives for B1 Spanish level
Student at B1 Spanish level will obtain the following skills:
- Listening Comprehension: To comprehend information on personal experiences and facts and events of everyday life as well as views expressed explicitly. Understand by using telephone and through the media, the essence of a statement or message, whose understanding does not require specific cultural knowledge.
- Oral Production: To carry on a conversation with a simple grammatical structure and be able to think consciously making use of appropriate communication strategies.
- Reading Comprehension: To understand the main ideas in literary texts and informative press texts, descriptive or narrative character and be able to deduct some lexical and grammatical aspects unknown to the context.
- Written Production: Developing texts not too extensive, including coordination and subordination through the use of more frequent connections whose tone is set according to their content and their objectives.
Communicative Content
- Talk about habits in the present
- Relate to past experiences
- Talk about the beginning and elongation/duration of an action
- Present an action in time
- Discuss future actions and situations
- Express conditions
- Develop a hypothesis about the future
- Express prohibition
- Express obligation
- Express impersonality
- Speak of habits
- Relate in the present
- Summarize the plot of a book or a movie/film
- Tell stories
- Understand jokes
- Recommend and advise
- Give instructions
- Describe an ad
- Express wishes, claims and needs
- Propose solutions
- Write a letter denouncing a problem
- Speak on the telephone
- Take and leave messages on the phone
- Transmit/communicate a message clearly
- Give orders, requests and advise
- Resources to tell stories
- Resources to show interest when listening to a story
- Talk about causes and consequences
- Express interest and feelings
- Talk about the relations between people
- Show disagreement in various records/occasions
- Ease or moderate an expression of disagreement
- Argue
- Describe the characteristics and functioning of something
- Comment on objects
- Assess situations and events
- Comment on actions and behaviors
- Make hypotheses and conjectures
- Relate to mysterious events
- Express different degrees of security
Grammatical content
- Ya + Past simple
- Todavía no + Past simple
- Verbal periphrasis
- Soler + Infinite
- Pretérito Perfecto
- Pretérito Imperfecto,
- Indefinido
- Pluscuamperfecto de indicativo
- Imperative forms
- Se me da bien/mal
- Deber (de) + infinitivo
- Tener que + infinitivo
- Direct Object Pronouns
- Indirect Object Pronouns
- Simple Past exceptions
- Imperfecto vs Pretérito (Past Simple)
- Temporal indicators
- Conditional sentences
- Futuro Imperfecto
- Quantifiers
- Presente de subjuntivo
- Cuando, luego, después, entonces
- Porque y como
- Demasiado, muy, bastante, más bien, algo, (un) poco, nada
- Qué + sustantivo
- Cuánto/Cómo+ verbo
- Ojalá (que)
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