To pass this level, students must demonstrate their ability to be constantly practicing
their language competence which will allow them, in each of the basic skills and with a
sufficient degree of communicative effectiveness. to cover the required level. By the
end of the course the student should be able to:

ORAL INTERACTION
- Communicate with a certain degree of confidence in both common and more
unfamiliar topics related to personal interests and specialty.
- Understand and use appropriately, according to context, formulas for social
interaction: greeting, saying goodbye, apologizing, wishing luck, congratulating, etc.
(standard and colloquial).
- Understand short and clear public messages: announcements, directions, instructions,
answering machines, most recorded or broadcast material pronounced in standard
language, etc. (standard).
- Hold clear conversations related to immediate daily needs (in a restaurant, in bank
offices, in stores, in public services, etc. (standard)
- Use Spanish as a language of interaction in the class: understand the teacher's
explanations, express doubts or make presentations (standard)
- Hold face-to-face or telephone conversations with known or unknown interlocutors to
present a personal question and understand possible answers, ask for clarifications,
clarifications or repetitions of the explanation (if necessary) (standard and colloquial)
- Describe a variety of topics that interest you, presenting them as a linear sequence of
events.
- Narrate facts and events with reasonable fluidity following a linear sequence of events
(standard and colloquial)
- Discriminate the basic meaning of longer oral information, exhibitions, interviews,
documentaries, etc. (standard and colloquial)
- Use strategies to enhance communicative capacity from limited resources of Spanish
proficiency (paraphrase, ask a partner for collaboration, retrieve information from the
interlocutor, etc. (standard and colloquial)
WRITTEN INTERACTION
- Understand texts aimed at a general public: posters, notes, notices, information
leaflets, announcements, programs, information on institutions, administrative forms,
etc. (standard)
- Fill in official forms requesting personal data (standard)
- Answer questionnaires related to their professional activity, their studies, their
personal interests: surveys, evaluative tests, exams, forms, etc. (standard)
- Understand and write messages related to daily activities: notes, postcards, personal
letters, etc. (standard and colloquial)
- Write formal applications (instances), personal curricula and official standardized
documents (standard)
- Understand the basic information of press releases, opinion articles or newspaper
reports (standard)
- Read short literary texts written in simple language: short stories, adapted novels, etc.
(standard)

- Read specialized language texts related to your professional activity, your studies or
your personal interests: magazine articles, reports, technical documents, etc. (standard)
- Handle necessary reference material for Spanish classes: dictionaries, grammars,
textbooks or exercises, etc.
- Being able to argue in writing a topic with some coherence.
ORAL-WRITTEN INTERACTION
- Take notes based on brief, clear and precise oral information, issued in a standard
register.
- Copy short oral messages (standard) to dictation
- Read aloud texts written by themselves or others, with a sufficient degree of correction
so that they can be understood without difficulty by a native speaker.
- Summarize information from a written text or oral message (standard)
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
1- Socializing function
- Use the most common and conventional formulas of courtesy and sociability.
2- Information function
- Describe the character of oneself or others.
- Describe and comment on changes in people.
- Report on things that have been seen, heard or read.
 - Transmit information, opinions, instructions or comments from other people.
- Express hypotheses and assumptions.
- Advertise purposes. Make plans.
3- Expressive function
- Express satisfaction or dissatisfaction, disappointment, joy or boredom.
- Express a wish.
- Express surprise and bewilderment.
- Express concern.
- Express grief, pain or affliction.
4- Value function
- Value and compare personal qualities.
- Express interest, preference, rejection, aversion or indifference.
- Give opinions, justify and defend an opinion. Show agreement and disagreement
regarding the opinions of others. Discuss an opinion with arguments.
5- Inductive function
- Ask someone directly (orders, requests, prohibitions) or indirectly (suggestions,
advice, warning
- Express the desire, the will or the need to do something.
- Make claims.
- Ask for something specifying the conditions. Request a service.
6- Metalinguistic function
- Use the necessary resources to maintain communication in case of doubts or
hesitations in the speech.
- Rectify and correct.
- Emphasize a part of the speech.
- Ask for explanations about grammar aspects.

1.- El alfabeto y los sonidos del español
- Las vocales
- Las consonantes
- Grupos consonánticos
2.- La palabra y la acentuación
- La división silábica y la silaba tónica
- Acento gráfico, diptongo y hiato
- Los monosílabos con acento diacrítico
- La puntuación
3.- El artículo
- Los artículos definidos e indefinidos
- El artículo neutro
- Uso del artículo
- El artículo definido + adjetivo / de / que
4.- El sustantivo
- El género: masculino y femenino
- Sustantivos con género y significado diferentes
- El número: singular y plural
- Formas y usos particulares
5.- El adjetivo
- El género: masculino y femenino
- El número: singular y plural
- Concordancia con sustantivos
- Adjetivos antepuestos y pospuestos

- El grado comparativo (superioridad, igualdad, inferioridad)
- El grado superlativo (relativo, absoluto)
- Superlativos absolutos irregulares y sintéticos
- Adjetivos gentilicios
6.- Adjetivos y pronombres determinativos
- Los demostrativos (adjetivos y pronombres)
- Los pronombres neutros
- Los posesivos (adjetivos y pronombres)
- El posesivo pospuesto
- Los indefinidos (adjetivos)
- Los pronombres indefinidos (variables e invariables)
- La negación con los indefinidos negativos
- Los numerales (ordinales y cardinales) (forma y uso)
7.- Los pronombres
- Los pronombres personales sujeto
- Uso de usted / ustedes
- El pronombre impersonal se
- Los pronombres de complemento directo (C.D.)
- Los pronombres de complemento indirecto (C.I.) (con y sin preposición)
- Los pronombres complemento combinados (C.I. + C.D.)
- La reduplicación pronominal
- El pronombre neutro lo
- El pronombre enclítico con imperativo afirmativo, infinitivo y gerundio
- El pronombre con perífrasis verbales (ir + a + infinitivo; tener + que +
infinitivo; tener + gerundio)
- Los pronombres reflexivos

- Los pronombres relativos
- Los relativos sin artículo
- Los relativos con preposiciones y artículos
- El relativo con significado posesivo: cuyo/-a/-os/-as
- Lo que / Lo cual
- Los pronombres interrogativos y exclamativos
8.- El verbo
- Los verbos ser, estar y haber (forma y uso)
- Estar y haber y la existencia
- El presente de indicativo (verbos regulares e irregulares)
- Uso del presente
- El pretérito perfecto de indicativo
- El participio pasado irregular
- Uso del pretérito perfecto
- El pretérito imperfecto de indicativo (verbos regulares e irregulares)
- Uso del imperfecto
- El pretérito indefinido de indicativo (verbos regulares e irregulares)
- Uso del pretérito indefinido
- Contraste pretérito indefinido / pretérito perfecto
- Contraste pretérito imperfecto / pretérito indefinido
- El pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo (forma y uso)
- El futuro de indicativo (verbos regulares e irregulares)
- Uso del futuro
- El futuro perfecto de indicativo (forma y uso)
- El condicional simple (verbos regulares e irregulares)

- Uso del condicional simple
- El condicional compuesto y su uso
- El presente de subjuntivo (verbos regulares e irregulares)
- Uso del presente de subjuntivo y contraste con el indicativo
- El pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo
- El imperativo (afirmativo y negativo)
- El imperativo con pronombres enclíticos
- Los infinitivos presente y pasado
- El gerundio (verbos regulares e irregulares)
- Estar + gerundio
- Usos del gerundio
- El participio
- Las perífrasis verbales (de infinitivo, gerundio y participio)
- La construcción pasiva
- Las oraciones impersonales
- La pasiva refleja
- El verbo hacer impersonal
- Los verbos de cambio
9.- El adverbio
- Formas y funciones de los adverbios
- Adverbios en -mente
- La gradación en los adverbios
- Clases de adverbios (de cantidad, lugar, tiempo, modo)
10.- Las preposiciones
- Preposiciones simples y combinadas

- Las preposiciones simples (a, en, con, sin, de, desde, hasta, desde hace, ante,
bajo, contra, entre, sobre, tras)
- Las preposiciones durante, hada, mediante, según
- Las preposiciones por y para
- Locuciones con por y para
- Verbos con preposición
- Locuciones prepositivas
11.- Las conjunciones
- Significado y uso de y, o, ni, pero, sino
- Otras conjunciones
- Las principales conjunciones subordinantes

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

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

Classroom work material (mandatory):
- Campus Sur. Curso intensivo de español. A1-B1. Libro del alumno. Editorial
difusión.
-  Gramática básica del estudiante de español. Edición revisada y ampliada.
Editorial Difusión
- Material que los docentes cargarán en la plataforma BLENDED durante el año.

Recommended books for non-attending students (non frequentanti):
- Campus Sur. Curso intensivo de español. A1-B1. Cuaderno de ejercicios.
Editorial Difusión

Useful grammar books:
- En Gramática. Nivel B1. Anaya.
- M. Carrera Díaz – P. Silvestri, Entre palabras. Grammatica contrastiva della
lingua spagnola, con CD audio/ROM, Torino, Loescher, 2010.
- G. Caballero González, En Verbos. Modelos de conjugación prácticos
regulares e irregulares, Madrid, Anaya, 2006.
- Ángeles Encinar, Uso interactivo del vocabulario, nivel A – B1, Edelsa

Dictionaries
- Diccionario CLAVE. Diccionario de uso del español actual. Editorial SM
- L. Tam, Grande dizionario di spagnolo-italiano, italiano-spagnolo (con CD-Rom),
Milano, Hoepli. 

Useful websites

- http://dle.rae.es/ (Diccionario de la Real Academia Española)
- http://www.wordreference.com/es/ (Diccionarios de español, de sinónimos,
italiano-español, etc)
- https://it.duolingo.com/ (página con cursos de idiomas, muy útil para hacer
pequeñas prácticas diarias)
- http://www.ver-taal.com/ (página con ejercicios de audio, léxico, gramática, etc).
- http://zonaele.com/gramatica-espanola/ (explicaciones de gramática)

Exams
Written exam - 4 hours
1. Grammar part: different exercises based on all the topics in this program.
2. Reading with multiple choice answers, T / F, open answers.
3. Writing: the task will be one of the writing tasks that have been practised during the
course.
Oral skills:
Listening:
Two audios from which the student will have to answer T / F, multiple choice, open but
concise answers, etc.
Speaking Test (accertamento orale):