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Intermediate Spanish II in Portland

Start dates: 15th of November, 2010
School: Castalia Language Center, Portland, Oregon


Recommended for those who have completed Intermediate Spanish I or studied Spanish before and have a good grasp of the topics covered in it (see course description as a reference).

By the end of the course you will be able to:
. Narrate complex stories and events
. Talk about hypothetical situations
. Read more advanced texts
. Express emotions
. Follow and give directions using different levels of formality
. Analyze films

Topics covered will include:
. Past tense: Intensive practice of the preterit and imperfect
. Conditional mood
. Intensive practice of irregular verbs in the preterit
. Commands (formal "you")
. Vocabulary of emotion
. Irregular verbs "ser," "estar" and "ir" in different tenses
. Primary uses of "se"
. Pronouns: Intensive practice of reflexive, direct and indirect objects