Post Graduate Program in Spanish Language

Functional Content

• Say hello and goodbye.
• Introducing someone and reacting to being introduced. (Meet people).
• Ask for forgiveness.
• Give the thanks.
• Point out that it is not understood.
• Ask someone to speak more slowly or louder.
• Request a repetition of what was said.
• Spell out and request to be spelled.
• Request that something is written.
• Identify people, places, and objects.
• Describe people, places, and objects.
• Refer to current or habitual actions.
• Refer to plans and projects.
• Express agreement and disagreement.
• Express knowledge or ignorance.
• Express and ask if it is possible or not to do something.
• Express and ask for pleasure and pleasure.
• Express and ask for desire and need.
• Invite and offer something. Accept or decline invitations and offers.
• Start and end the speech

Cultural Content

• Ways of greeting and presentation.
• The use of the language in various social situations in the Hispanic world.
• Presentation of some Panamanian and Hispanic cities.
• Presentation of a famous person from the Hispanic world.

Grammar

• Basic phrases (greetings, farewells).
• Important Commands for the class.
• Basic questions (what, how, which, all questions).
• Survival phrases, invitations, requests, etc.
• Alphabet. Basic concepts of pronunciation and intonation.
• The noun. The adjective. The concordance. Articles.
• Days of the week, months, and seasons of the year.
• The numbers.
• Pronouns.
• Elementary uses of SER.
• Elemental uses of ESTAR.
• HAY and ESTAR.
• Demonstrative.
• Possessives.
• Adverbs of place.
• Basic prepositions of place.
• Verb do (depends on the student, you can go before).
• Regular present.
• Present Irregular (more frequent).
• Uses of knowing and knowing.
• Some modal verbs: power, want, have to.
• Most frequent reflexive verbs.
• Verb like.
• Basic conditional.
• Past Indefinite, the most frequent regular and irregular verbs (ser, estar, tener).
• GO TO + INFINITIVE.

Functional Content

• Compare people, objects, places, and situations.
• Express and ask for opinions about something or someone.
• Express and ask about the degree of security.
• Express and ask for the obligation to do something.
• Ask, grant, and deny permission.
• Express and ask for satisfaction and desire
• Express and ask for preferences.
• Express and ask for needs.
• Express and ask about physical sensations and pain.
• Suggest activities and react to suggestions.
• React to a story with expressions of surprise, interest, joy.
• To congratulate.
• Address someone.
• Relate elements and parts of speech.
• Verify that what has been said has been understood.
• Asking for a word or expression that is unknown or has been forgotten.
• Express and ask for pleasure and pleasure.
• Express and ask for desire and need
• Invite and offer something. Accept or decline invitations and offers.
• Start and end the speech

Cultural Content

• Social codes: invite, offer, reject.
• Social behaviors when giving and receiving gifts in Hispanic countries.
• The desktop in Hispanic countries
• The importance of meals in family and social relationships.

Grammar

• General review of the contents of A1.
• Expansion of the uses of SER and ESTAR.
• Extension of the irregular program A1.
• Extension of modal verbs.
• Other verbs like "LIKE": hurt, annoy, seem.
• Imperfect Past (regular and irregular)
• The general alternation between Preterite Indefinite and Imperfect.
• Future of Indicative.
• The 1st. conditional: Yes + Present + Future.
• Some modal verbs: power, duty, have to.
• ESTAR + Gerund.
• Direct and indirect object. Pronoun placement.
• Regular Imperative You and You

Topics and Vocabulary

• Conversation about present, future & past events, and describing a situation
• Explaining habitual actions
• Talking about memories
• Making Comparisons
• Explaining anecdotes
• Reactions: Que pena!, Menos mal! ¿De verdad?
• Expressing feelings such as happiness, pity, surprise, fear
• Expressing how long you have been doing an action for
• Sentence and word building
• Describe feeling
• Express Present Wishes and Future Wishes
• Express Problems and give advice
• How to give order and instructions
• Passing messages
• Reported speech, ex: Dali dijo que si moria no moriria del todo

Grammar

• Imperfect tense
• Past simple vs. Imperfect past
• Prepositions inc. por/para
• Past pluscuamperfecto
• Different clause types
• Present subjunctive
• Imperative
• Conditional tense
• Pronouns and prepositions
• Different clause types

Cultural Content

• Spanish and Latin American Literature overview
• Vocabulary words differently in different countries
• Different indigenous peoples in Latin America and their customs and habits
• Variety of food in all the Spanish speaking countries
• Aspects of Latin Personality and habits
• Introduction to Latin American and Spanish cinema
• La Fiesta del sol in Peru
• Refrains and proverbs

Skill Work

• Talking and active practice
• Listening practice
• Pronunciation
• Reading and Writing
• Orthography: accents

Topics and Vocabulary

• Express opinion and argue with people
• Talk and describe past events
• Express doubts and probability
• Give opinions and recommend films
• Complain about things and situations
• Demand things
• Use gesture to communicate
• Ask for advice and react to advice
• Make a hypothesis about past events and explain it
• Make a hypothesis about future’

Grammar

• Revision of present subjunctive tense, conditional tense, imperative tense, and all past tenses.
• Uses of all past tenses
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Future tense
• Expression to use when you argue like: me molesta que…,no soporto que…, me sorprende que..
• Present, past perfect, and past imperfect subjunctive.
• Second conditional sentences, ex: si fuera rico no trabajaria y viviria en la playa.
• Future simple and compuesto.
• Conditional simple y compuesto.
• Revision of imperative tense affirmative and negative.
• Pronouns, prepositions.
• Different clause types

Cultural Content

• Telling jokes
• Idioms
• Introduction to Spanish and Latin American poetry
• El dia de los santos innocentes
• Latin American music
• Spanish and Latin American Arts and Literature and music
• How is life in modern cities in Latin America
• The Amazon rainforest.
• Telling jokes.
• Refrains and proverbs.
• Slang vocabulary and expressions

Skill Work

• Active oral practice
• Listening
• Debates
• Accents
• Reading and some Writing
• Orthography

Functional Content

• Describe and value people.
• Definition and description of objects.
• Relate moments from the past.
• Express prohibition.
• Express obligation.
• Highlight or give importance to something.
• Recommend and advise.
• React by showing our feelings.
• React to other people's wishes.
• Express likes wishes and feelings.
• Show skepticism.
• Express wishes that are difficult or impossible to fulfill.
• Formulate hypotheses in the present and past.
• Against arguing.
• Compare objects and people.
• Express agreement and disagreement.
• Express approval and disapproval.
• Argue and debate.
• Summarize arguments.
• Convey orders, requests, and advice (in the present and past).
• Transmit messages (in present and past).
• Repeat a previous or budget order.
• Sequence arguments.
• Structure the speech.
• Give coherence to a text.
• Make literary use of language.
• Narrate using different tenses

Grammar Content

• Advanced uses of ser y estar.
• Verbs and verbal periphrasis of transformation and change.
• Review of the affirmative and negative imperative with pronouns.
• Uses of having and carrying in physical descriptions.
• Verbs with prepositions.
• Although indicative and subjunctive.
• Subjunctive revision (present, imperfect, and past perfect).
• Review of classes of conditional sentences.
• More colloquial expressions.
• The pluperfect subjunctive.
• He is impersonal.
• Connectors (additive, counter-argumentative, causal, consequential, ordering of discourse).
• Frequently used prefixes and suffixes.
• The indicative vs subjunctive.
• Time correlation in the indirect style.
• Derivation of adjectives from nouns.
• Comparative constructions.
• Neutral pronouns.
• Leísmo, Laísmo, Loísmo.
• Other periphrases.
• Synonyms and antonyms.
• The accentuation and general rules of spelling.
• Interpretation and production of short literary texts

Pronunciation

• Identification of variants of Spanish.
• Intonation, accent, and rhythm in-variants of Spanish

Cultural Content

• Panamanian Folk Dances.
• The Holy Week.
• The Black Christ of Portobelo.
• Elections in Panama

Functional Content

• Judge and value.
• Express hypotheses.
• Complain and lament.
• Express likes wishes and preferences.
• Encourage and reassure.
• Recommend and advise.
• Influence the interlocutor.
• Contrast and compare ideas.
• Structure the speech.
• Relate or add information.
• Point out opposition, processes, results, and circumstances.
• Alluding to themes or interpretations of others.
• Repeat and tell what was said by another.
• React to new information by referring to previous knowledge.
• Recognize and use discourse markers indicating processes, results.
• Circumstances and temporal reference.
• Extract relevant information and make a summary.
• Give compliments and react to compliments.
• Production of different kinds of texts.

Grammar

• Review of all the subjunctive tenses.
• Subordinate substantive clauses.
• Subordinate adjective clauses with indicative and subjunctive verbs.
• Causal subordinate clauses with verbs in Indicative and subjunctive.
• Consecutive, concessive, comparative, final, and conditional sentences.
• Verbs that alternate indicative and subjunctive with the change of meaning and intentional nuances.
• Mode sentences (as and as, as, the same as if, as if ...).
• Other colloquial expressions.
• The indirect and direct style.
• Verbs that introduce the referred speech.
• Uses of the + adjective.
• More discursive markers.
• Process of the derivation of adjectives to verbs.
• Values ​​of yourself.
• Prepositional phrases.
• Adverbial phrases.
• Review of the rules of spelling and stress.
• Production and analysis of written texts

Pronunciation

• Identification of variants of Spanish.
• Intonation, accent, and rhythm in-variants of Spanish

Cultural Content

• Hispanic American Literature.
• Panamanian writers.
• Bullfights.
• The celebration of fifteen years.

• Business Communication
• Preparation for the Interview
• Presentation Skills

Resume Building Techniques