-  Understand a wide range of long and difficult texts from which be able to read between the lines.

-  Speak fluently and spontaneously without making such an effort to find the right words.

-  Use the language efficiently for social, academic and professional goals.

-  Write clear and complex texts using appropriated structures about difficult topics showing the control  of coherence and cohesion mechanisms.

GRAMMAR CONTENTS

• Strengthening and extension of the contrast between the verbs ser/estar

• Strengthening and extension of the uses of ser y estar with preposition

• Structures with ser

• Proverbs with con ser y estar

• Passive Voice

• Tense: historical present

• Use and relation of the tenses in the past: pretérito indefinido, pretérito perfecto, pretérito imperfecto, pretérito pluscuamperfecto, futuro perfecto

• Tense:  Conditional Simple with a past meaning

• Verbs with a double meaning depending on how they are used: indicativo o subjuntivo

• Strengthening of the Imperative

• Strengthening about leísmo, laísmo y loísmo

• Time connectors

• Connectors that indicatethe way to do something

• Adverbs and expressions related to time and way

• Strengthening of past tenses

• Strengthening and extension of contrast clauses

• Strengthening and extension of time clauses and modals

• Reported Speech

• Future Simple and Perfect with indications of probability

• Conditional Simple indicating probability in the past

• Expressions to indicate wish and hypothesis  

• Conditional sentenes with Si, De + infinitivo, gerundio

• Other conditional conjunctions: que... que (no), si... que (no), que... si (no), siempre que, siempre y cuando, mientras, a no ser que, a menos que, excepto que, salvo que, con tal de que, a condición de que, solo si, excepto si, en el caso de que, como, a cambio de que, con que (solo)

• Strengthening and extension of causal connectors

• Strengthening and extension of purpose connectors

• Strengthening and extension of the cause and purpose

• Strengthening and extension of the uses of the prepositions por / para

• Less common infinitive phrasal verbs: venir a, estar para, estar por, echar(se) a, llegar a, darle a uno por, quedar(se), quedar en, meterse a.

• Gerund phrasal verbs: ir, venir, llevar, quedar(se)/dejar, salir, acabar, andar.

• Participle phrasal verbs: dar por, llevar, andar, quedar/dejar, tener, verse

The teaching material prepared by the language assistant in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the language assistant specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Course books

Text books/Methods:

1-  C de C1 Curso de español de nivel superior, libro del alumno, Rosana Acquaroni, José Amenós, Virginia González, Pedro Gras, Josefina Simkievich, Carmen Soriano, Iñaki Tarrés, Difusión, 2017

2-  C de C1 Curso de español de nivel superior, cuaderno de ejercicios, Rosana Acquaroni, José Amenós, Virginia González, Pedro Gras, Josefina Simkievich, Carmen Soriano, Iñaki Tarrés, Difusión, 2017 -  (soluciones presentes en la plataforma blended)

 IMPORTANT:

 Useful additional books (above all for students that do not attend classes):

GRAMMAR

-  C. Moreno, Temas de Gramática con ejercicios prácticos, Madrid, SGEL, 2008.

-  Genís Castro, José Vincente Ianni, Nuevo Prisma nivel C1, libro de ejercicios, Edinumen, 2011 (solo para estudiantes no asistentes)

-  Notas de morfosintaxis contrastiva español-italiano, Falcinelli, A. Pisa, TEP. (2004).

VOCABUARY AND PROVERBS:

-  Uso Interactivo del vocabulario, Nivel B2/C2  Marisa De Prada , Edelsa, 2012

-  Hablar por los codos. Frases para un español cotidiano, Gordana Bogdanovic,  Madrid, Edelsa, 2004

 WRITTEN COMPOSITION

-  Escribe en español, Madrid, C. Arnal y A. Ruiz de Garbay,  SGEL, 2003.

-  Ejercicios de escritura. Nivel avanzado, M. Álvarez Martínez, Madrid, Anaya, 2001.

4- Dictionaries:

-  Clave. Diccionario de uso del español actual, Madrid, SM, con CD-Rom.

-  Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la Lengua Españolahttp://lema.rae.es/drae/

-  Ediciones SM, Diccionario Clave del Uso del Español http://clave.smdiccionarios.com/app.php

-  M. Seco, Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2003.

EXAM 

The C1 level exam consists of the following two parts: 

1. Written grammar exam and composition exam: The student can access with his own credentials to a network model exam in blended to appreciate the structure of the exam from the beginning of the classes.  

Study Material    

Listening and Speaking 

Text books/Methods and other materials: 

EXAM 

2. Listening exam: Consists of two exercises that can have the following possibilities: multiple choice, true or false correcting the false answers, open answers, explaining proverbs. 

3. Oral exam: It is based on one of the topics that are present in the “C de C1”  book, from which the student will have to prepare an argumentative exposition of at least 7 minutes using the level required. The student will also be asked about the proverbs that are illustrated  in the previous book.