This Spanish Language program is developed based on the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference, the objectives of which are:

• Understand broad speeches even when they are not clearly structured and when relationships are only implicit and not explicitly stated. Understand TV shows and movies without much effort.

• Understand long and complex texts of a literary or fact-based nature, appreciating distinctions of style. Understand specialized articles and long technical instructions even if they do not relate to your specialty.

• Express oneself fluently and spontaneously without having to look very obviously for the right expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes. Formulate ideas and opinions with precision and relate their interventions skillfully to those of other speakers.

• Present clear and detailed descriptions of specific topics that include other topics, developing specific ideas and ending with an appropriate conclusion.

• Be able to express oneself in clear and well-structured texts, stating points of view of a certain length. Write about complex topics in letters, essays or reports highlighting what you consider to be important aspects. Select the appropriate style for the readers to whom your writing is directed.

• Produce a clear, fluid and well-structured speech that demonstrates a controlled use of organizational structures, connectors, and cohesion mechanisms.

FUNCTIONAL CONTENTS

The communicative functions that the student has to consolidate through this course are:

• Physical and personality description (subjectively assessing an attitude or behavior; highlighting physical and moral characteristics).

• Judge and evaluate.

•  Tell stories. Express temporal relationships between actions (refer to an action as a process or result; evoke a memory; narrate and describe in the past; express contemporary and sequential relationships between actions; establish prior and posterior relationships between actions; evoke a memory; establish temporary relationships).

• Correct erroneous information.

•  Define.

• Give advice and instructions.

• Give orders to an interlocutor or a group.

• Give and ask for an opinion (give opinions, evaluate and contrast opinions).

•  Advise.

• Persuade and convince (expressing will, desire, prohibition, command or request with the intention of influencing others).

• Resources to express agreement and disagreement with part of what another has said (react to something; express the point of view about something).

• Express doubt and reserve.

• Express moods and feelings.

• Express wishes.

• Express feelings.

•  Quote.

• Resources to maintain oral communication.

• Expression of the condition (present two options to the listener with similar consequences; condition with a value of warning and threat; minimum essential condition for something to occur; sufficient condition that is sufficient for something to occur; condition that is presented as unique impediment; condition that implies a forecast of what may happen; condition that expresses an exchange of actions).

• Interpret other people's words and transmit them through a referenced speech.

• Transmit information taking into account different pragmatic elements.

• Express what is considered possible or probable.

• Express what is considered possible but distant.

• Evoke fictitious situations.

• Reformulate sentences to bring clarity to the presentation.

GRAMMATICAL CONTENTS

The grammatical elements necessary to consolidate this level are those listed below:

• Periphrasis of continuity and change.

• Resources to compare

• Conditional sentences and connectors

• Final subordinate clauses: consolidation

•  Present participle

• Pronominal use of the verb.

• Periphrasis and initiation of action.

• The future and the conditional to express hypotheses.

• Temporal correlation in subordinates.

• Conditionals with like + subjunctive.

• Adverbs ending in –mente.

• Indirect style and referred speech.

• Ser accidental.

• Periphrasis of development and progress.

• Applications of yourself.

• Uses of por and para.

• Concessive sentences and markers.

• Proportional comparative constructions.

• Concessive sentences.

• That in independent sentences.

• Temporal sentences of simultaneity.

It should be noted that the grammatical topics of the previous levels are essential for the acquisition of the elements of this level, therefore, their knowledge is a necessary budget. For its proper consolidation and review, if necessary, the student has to carry out the writing assignments assigned by the teacher.

COMMERCIAL  AND TOURISM LANGUAGE CONTENTS

1. Creation of a company

2. Organization of a company and its human resources.

3. The financial function of the company.

4. The commercial activity of the company: the product, the price, communication and distribution.

5. Marketing and advertising.

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

Innovative teaching methods

The course is organized following the next steps:

• Collaborative writing and group work
• Oral presentations
• Oral discussion about different topics
• Visualization of audiovisual material
• Creation of business projects

Innovative teaching:

The face-to-face teaching method will be enriched with individual and group exercises and insights that students will carry out using the University's Moodle platform. Some topics of the course will be taught through "flipped classroom".

Course books

A-. Classroom textbooks

• C1 de C1 à 1) Libro del alumno y 2) Cuaderno de ejercicios. Editorial Difusión, 2017.
• Dossier complementario – Lectorado Lin-Az – III Año. –Disponible en Blended Learning y Librería Moderna Universitaria.

B-. Complementary grammar books

•     Gramática de uso del español. Teoría y práctica. C1/C2. SM/ELE, 2010.

C-. Dictionaries

• Diccionario CLAVE. SM/Hoepli
• Diccionario Español Esencial. Zanichelli/Vox.
• Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la Lengua Española http://lema.rae.es/drae/
• Ediciones SM, Diccionario Clave del Uso del Español http://clave.smdiccionarios.com/app.php
• María Moliner, Diccionario de Uso del Español, Gredos, 2007.
• A. M. Gallina, Dizionario commerciale bilingue spagnolo-italiano, Mursia, 1992 o más reciente.
• M. Seco, Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2003.
• L. Tam, Grande dizionario di spagnolo-italiano, italiano-spagnolo (con CD-Rom), Milano, Hoepli.
• S. Carbonell, Diccionario fraseológico completo, italiano-spagnolo/spagnolo-italiano, 2 Vols., Milano, Hoepli, 1992.