This is what is covered in this level:
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think to be our present existence as a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
Oh! The world of ideas and dreams!
Vamos Plato and Poe – let’s talk about them….
In Spanish…
This course introduces you to a deeper form of communication. At this level, we want you to go a little bit further.
Because you’re a friend, a brother, a sister, a son or a daughter, we will make sure you are able to express yourself in those roles that life challenges us with every day. We want you to make friends and give advice and suggestions to them (that’s what a good friend does).
For the first time at this level, you will step into the world of ideas, suppositions, and conjectures, preparing yourself to leave the indicative (this will happen in level 6, yeah!).
The Indicative is simply one of the two forms Spanish verbs come in. You have been studying this form since you started learning Spanish. This form allows you to talk about real situations or statements, whether those are placed in past, present, or future tenses.
Let’s have a look at the last tenses from this indicative form spiced up with the conditional, the future and some compound tenses like the tense everybody loves to name: El Pluscuamperfecto!
Uses of adverbs YA and TODAVÍA
Expressing the idea of completed past actions, experiences or actions that are yet to be completed.
Arranging our agenda, our TO DO LIST.
Recounting of past habits.
Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto/Antepresente Continuo
Criticize, categorize and recommend books, plays and music.
Writing a synopsis.
Communication strategies
Finding and practising different resources or ways to transmit our message when we are short on words or lacking vocabulary is crucial.
Practising with the game TABOO.
Introduction to reported speech
Receiving calls, taking, giving and passing on messages.
‘Se’ impersonal. And Grerunds as adverbs
Expressing actions without a performer, talking in general, focussing on the actual action of the verb.
Recognising, comparing and appreciating cultures.
Revisión de tiempos pasados y furturo.
Reported speech and passing on messages.
The CONDITIONAL and the FUTURE tenses
Talking about dreams, hypotheses and conjectures in the past and present.
Adding politeness to our speech.
PLUSPERFECT tense
Uses of the adverb JUSTO as a time indicator with plusperfect and imperfect tense.
How do we react to stories friends are telling us?
Future perfect and conditional clauses
Making conjectures in the past
Talking about amazing/strange facts.
Review of the uses of CONDITIONAL and FUTURE.
Perífrasis
Talking about physical and emotional changes that are in or out of our control.
Expressing obligation, possibility or necessity according to the attitude of the speaker.
