Kurz španělštiny - P2026C1.2a
Advanced II
Day
Monday
Lesson length
90 minutes
Lessons
18 lessons
Course code
P2026C1.2a
Classroom
Room 1
Teacher
First lesson
5 Oct 2026
Last lesson
15 Feb 2027
Start
16:45
End
18:15
Starting level
C1.1
Finishing level
C1.2
Places available
5 z 6
Coursebook
Nuevo Prisma C1 - Libro del alumno
Course fee
$458
Course enrolment
Course content
C1.2Skills
- Expressing simultaneity or sequence between actions
- Saying which action happened first
- Expressing manner and attitude
- Making unreal comparisons in the present
- Giving an opinion and reviewing a film, in conversation and in writing
- Describing the qualities of heroes
- Joining in a discussion
- Referring to something
- Pointing out the importance of something
- Expressing partial agreement
- Trying to convince someone: arguing and counter-arguing
- Insisting on something
- Expressing the minimum intensity needed to achieve the desired result
- Reproaching
- Expressing the certainty that something will happen or that we are convinced of something
- Stating a fact that does not contradict another, standing your ground
- Describing and identifying people, places and things
- Asking and answering about the existence of something or someone
- Retelling what someone else said
- Interpreting and passing on someone else's words
- Passing on information with attention to certain elements of the sentence
- Justifying, giving reasons for and supporting an opinion with arguments and quotations
Grammar
- Time connectors
- Modal connectors
- Adverbial expressions of time and manner
- Unreal comparative structures
- Formal versus informal language
- Concessive connectors: por mucho, por más, por muy, y eso que, y mira que, por poco, aunque, a pesar de que, aun + gerundio
- digan lo que digan, hagan lo que hagan, pese a quien pese
- Defining and non-defining clauses
- Subordinate clauses with the indicative or the subjunctive
- Indefinite pronouns and adverbs
- Reported speech
- Grammatical transformations: pronouns, determiners, time expressions, moods and tenses
Vocabulary
- Instructional text: caption, technical data sheet
- Superstitions
- Criticism and opinion
- Magic, fantasy, superstitions
- Cinema and reviews
- Newspapers and articles
- Dialogue and interview to gather data for a survey
- Summarising survey results
- Descriptive text
- Political rally
- Memory
- Fixed phrases
- Vocabulary of Latin American Spanish
- News item
- Fable
- Song
- Specialist newspaper article
- Idiomatic expressions with animals
- The environment
- Conversational text, interview, meeting
- The concept of donjuanismo.
- The meanings of the verb conquistar
- Aggregating reporting verbs in reported speech
In terms of content, the course forms part of the preparation for language exams recognised by the Czech Ministry of Education.
Knowledge expected
Úroveň A1.1
Skills
- Greeting someone and responding formally and informally
- Saying goodbye
- Introducing yourself and responding
- Addressing someone
- Asking for confirmation and confirming information
- Asking how to say something
- Asking for an explanation or for something to be repeated
- Spelling out loud
- Asking for and giving personal details: name, age, origin, address, profession, education
- Talking about your profession and workplace
- Talking about daily routine
- Expressing possession and belonging
- Expressing emotions and feelings
- Talking about the existence, absence and quantity of something
- Asking for and giving details about the location and number of people and things
- Talking and asking about personal relationships
- Asking for and giving personal details
- Describing a person's appearance and character, clothes
- Expressing needs, wishes and preferences
- Asking and saying how much something costs
- Thanking someone and responding to thanks
- Asking for and giving information about location
- Asking for and giving information about transport
Grammar
- Personal pronouns
- The difference between tú and usted
- ser, llamarse
- The question word ¿Cómo...?
- The definite article
- Gender and number of nouns
- Agreement of the article with the noun and the adjective
- The question words Cuál, Qué, Cuántos...
- The present tense (presente de indicativo)
- Reflexive verbs
- tener
- The indefinite article
- hay + indefinite article + noun
- Contracted forms of the article
- The verb estar
- Contrasting hay/está(n)
- mucho, poco, muy
- The question words Dónde, Qué, Cuánto(s)...
- Possessive pronouns
- ser, tener, llevar
- ir, necesitar, querer, preferir
- The prepositions a/en
- mejor/peor
Vocabulary
- Short conversation
- Nationalities, countries, continents
- Classroom and lesson vocabulary
- Personal details, forms
- Colours
- Professions and workplaces
- Descriptive text
- Numbers 1-101
- Everyday tasks
- Mathematical operations
- Descriptive text
- The home and housing
- Streets and shops
- Journalistic text
- Family and relationships
- Appearance and personality
- Clothes
- Public transport
- Tourist leaflet
- Addresses, giving directions, travel
Úroveň A1.2
Skills
- Describing routine activities
- Asking and telling the time
- Talking about opening hours
- Expressing an approximate quantity
- Expressing how often something happens
- Expressing when something happens
- Expressing and asking about preferences, likes and interests
- Expressing agreement and disagreement
- Expressing pain and feeling unwell
- Suggesting a plan, accepting or turning it down
- Arranging a meeting
- Talking about actions in progress
- Talking about plans and intentions
- Expressing how something is done
- Ordering at the bar
- Giving advice
- Giving your opinion and asking for someone else's
- Giving instructions
- Expressing negation
- Talking about the weather
- Narrating past events
- Describing places geographically
Grammar
- Reflexive verbs
- Irregular verbs in the present tense (e>ie, o>ue, first person)
- Adverbs and expressions of quantity
- Adverbs and expressions of frequency
- gustar, encantar
- doler, tener dolor de
- Indirect object pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs of quantity: nada, poco, demasiado, bastante, mucho
- también/tampoco
- The gerund: forms and uses
- Estar + gerund
- quedar, poder
- ir a + infinitive: expressing the future
- creo que, pienso que, para mí
- parecer
- (no) estoy de acuerdo con
- The affirmative imperative
- Pretérito indefinido: regular verbs
- Pretérito indefinido: irregular verbs (ser, ir, dar, estar, tener, hacer)
- Expressions used with the pretérito indefinido (ayer, anoche, anteayer, el otro día, la semana pasada, el mes pasado, el año pasado)
Vocabulary
- Opening hours
- Everyday and free-time activities
- Places for leisure activities
- Shops
- Parts of the day
- Days of the week
- Statistics
- Leisure and free-time activities
- Eating and food
- Parts of the human body
- Painkillers
- Informative text
- Interview
- Survey
- Food and drink at the bar
- Studying and learning a language
- Article, forum
- Public holidays
- Everyday activities, routine
- Report
- Travel blog
- Geography
- The weather
- Months of the year
- The seasons
Úroveň A2.1
Skills
- Greeting someone, responding to a greeting and saying goodbye
- Introducing yourself and introducing someone else
- Asking for and giving reasons for learning Spanish
- Expressing opinions, attitudes, knowledge and recommendations about learning
- Asking about and expressing your own preferences and favourites, and giving an assessment
- Asking for and giving personal details
- Structuring speech
- Talking on the phone and responding
- Talking about specific events in the past
- Giving an opinion about past experiences or trips
- Expressing similarities and differences
- Talking about feelings
- Talking about the recent past
- Asking for and giving information about events and experiences where the timing does not matter
- Talking about historical events
- Talking about important moments in life
- Talking about experiences
- Asking for and giving information about someone's life and background
- Applying for a job
Grammar
- Por qué/Para qué + present tense
- para, porque
- tener que, poder
- gustar, preocupar, molestar
- Conjunctions
- Pretérito indefinido and the time expressions used with it
- Prepositions (a, en, de...)
- Question words (qué, cuál, dónde, cuándo, quién...)
- Pretérito perfecto
- Time markers for the pretérito perfecto: hoy, esta mañana, hace unos minutos...
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Pretérito indefinido - irregular forms (3rd person)
- Expressions for narrating: al cabo de, a los, después de, desde, hasta, de, a,
- nunca, ya, todavía no, alguna vez...
- Contrasting pretérito indefinido and perfecto
Vocabulary
- Introductions
- Informal conversation
- Everyday activities
- Leisure and free-time activities
- Preferences and favourite things and activities
- Transport
- Vocabulary of language study
- Environmental pollution
- Formal and informal phone calls
- Social media (Facebook)
- Tourist leaflet
- Describing the city and its parts
- Nouns and adjectives derived from verbs
- Personal diary
- The family and its forms
- Emotions and feelings
- Everyday activities
- Theft and thieves
- CV, biography and covering letter
- Job advertisements
- Architecture, history and the job market
Úroveň A2.2
Skills
- Identifying and defining things and people
- Describing people, things and places
- Comparing
- Expressing obligation, permission and prohibition
- Talking about what is new
- Talking about social norms
- Describing people and activities in the past
- Recalling memories and talking about them
- Comparing qualities and actions
- Talking about past events and habits and comparing them with the present
- Talking about the circumstances of past events
- Telling real or invented events and stories
- Describing physical features and characteristics of people, animals and things
- Expressing surprise, disappointment and regret
- Paying compliments and responding to them
- Talking about future activities
- Talking about the present and the future subject to a condition
- Making predictions and assumptions
- Making promises
- Talking about the weather
Grammar
- Contrasting ser/estar
- Subordinate clauses with que, donde
- Structures for expressing equality, superiority and inferiority
- Structures for comparing
- poder, deber, se puede, se debe
- está permitido, está prohibido
- Pretérito imperfecto
- Time markers used with the pretérito imperfecto: antes, mientras, siempre, todos los días, cuando
- recordar, acordarse de
- Contrasting pretérito imperfecto and presente de indicativo
- soler
- Contrasting pretérito imperfecto and pretérito indefinido
- Estar (pretérito imperfecto) + gerundio
- es de/está hecho de, procede de, sirve para
- Structures for narrating
- Future tense (futuro simple)
- Time expressions used with the future tense
- si + presente de indicativo + presente/futuro simple
- creo/imagino/supongo que + futuro simple
- no sé si/cuándo/dónde + futuro simple
Vocabulary
- Free time
- Descriptive text
- Formal text
- Weddings and celebrations
- Stag and hen parties
- Technology news
- Emotions and feelings connected with learning
- Informative text
- Discussion forum
- synonyms and antonyms
- Words with several meanings
- Mobile communication
- La movida madrileña
- Newspaper headline and article
- Narrative text
- News
- Fairy tales, characters and magical objects
- Describing appearance and personality
- Competitions
- Travel
- Recycling and waste
- The environment
- Outdoor activities
- The weather
Úroveň B1.1
Skills
- Talking about past events
- Describing a past event that came before another past event
- Describing an action that followed another
- Expressing that something is happening for the first time
- Expressing expectations and wishes
- Giving an opinion and assessing actions and activities
- Expressing agreement, partial agreement, disagreement and scepticism
- Distancing yourself from an issue or, conversely, actively supporting it
- Advising and recommending
- Making a request
- Apologising
- Writing a classified ad
- Talking about your own preferences and those of others
- Describing objects, places and people
- Asking whether someone knows a person or a thing
Grammar
- The past perfect: formation and use
- Connectors for structuring speech (ya, todavía, porque, pero, cuando, además, por eso, igualmente, encima, es más, más aún, incluso, hasta)
- The present subjunctive (presente de subjuntivo): formation and use with creer, pensar, opinar, parecer
- Expressing agreement and disagreement
- Reinforcing an opinion (absolutamente, totalmente)
- Recomendar, aconsejar
- Esperar, desear, querer
- Pedir, rogar, prohibir
- Forming diminutives (-ito, -illo)
- Gustar, encantar, molestar, fastidiar, odiar
- Que and donde with the subjunctive (known versus unknown antecedent)
- The connectors sin embargo, aunque, ya que, en otras palabras
- Indefinite pronouns and questions about the existence of something or someone
Vocabulary
- Social media, blogs, the internet, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, forums
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Narrative text and storytelling
- Lecture
- Language learning
- Feelings, experiences and opinions
- Informative text
- Newspaper article
- Household chores
- Social behaviour
- Colloquial expressions and turns of phrase
- Guessing
- Leisure and theme parks
- Architecture
Úroveň B1.2
Skills
- Expressing positive and negative feelings
- Complaining and making a complaint
- Reacting emotionally to a situation or an object
- Expressing joy, sadness, envy and fear
- Expressing an action that happens at the same time as another
- Expressing an action that happens immediately after another
- Expressing an action that happens whenever another one does
- Expressing the beginning of an action
- Expressing the interval between two actions
- Expressing an action before or after another
- Expressing personal experience in education
- Explaining the reason or motive for an action
- Denying the reasons for an event or situation and setting them straight
- Describing
- Thanking and apologising
- Expressing assumption and probability
- Confirming a fact or refuting it
- Agreeing or disagreeing with someone else's assumption
- Expressing probability in the past in relation to the present
Grammar
- Using verbs of emotion with the subjunctive
- irritar, molestar, dar vergüenza, ser intolerable, entristecer, alegrar...´
- Change of meaning of adjectives with ser/estar
- Time clauses with the subjunctive and the indicative
- Time conjunctions (todas las veces que, mientras...)
- Using causal clauses
- Causal connectors (porque, como, debido a...)
- Event or situation + subjunctive/indicative
- Structures for expressing probability + indicative/subjunctive
- Quizás, tal vez, posiblemente, a lo mejor
- Pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo
- The verb ser for saying where an event takes place
Vocabulary
- Newspaper article
- Social media
- Narrative text
- Blog
- Emotions, feelings, impressions
- News, speeches
- Poem
- Education and study
- Colloquial expressions
- Mysteries and riddles
- Descriptive text
- Animals and plants
- Opinions
- Paranormal phenomena and dreams
Úroveň B1.3
Skills
- Expressing probability in the present, past and future
- Making a prediction
- Creating a comic strip
- Expressing cause and effect
- Expressing purpose
- Writing a covering letter
- Talking about a conference
- Expressing an imminent action
- Expressing obligation and assumption
- Expressing the beginning and the end of an action
- Expressing the continuation of an action
- Expressing an action in progress
- Giving an opinion on and a review of a film
- Expressing consequences
- Describing traditions of different countries
Grammar
- Futuro perfecto de indicativo
- The difference between futuro simple, futuro perfecto and condicional simple for expressing probability
- Structures for confirming or rejecting an assumption
- The difference between por and para
- Differences between cause and consequence
- Connectors of purpose
- A fin de que, con el fin de que...
- Discourse connectors
- referente a, respecto a...
- The difference between qué and cuál
- Verb phrases with the infinitive and the gerund
- The definite and indefinite article
- Result clauses with the indicative and the subjunctive
- Consecutive connectors
- por eso, entonces...
- Result clauses with intensifiers
- tanto que...
- The uses of se
Vocabulary
- Newspaper column
- Comics
- Narrative text
- Extract from a novel
- Literature
- Travel
- Traditions
- The conference
- Covering letter
- Colloquial expressions
- Music
- Email and letter
- Appointments
- Informative text
- CV
- Argumentative text
- Television
- idiomatic expressions in the plural
- Blog
- News
- Travel guide
- Pre-Columbian cultures
Úroveň B2.1
Skills
- Expressing wishes
- Talking about assumptions and probability
- Expressing preferences, feelings, dislike, emotions,
- Giving an opinion and assessing
- Talking about people's lives and their expectations, feelings and plans for the future...
- Introducing yourself formally and informally
- Asking for and giving information about whether someone knows something or someone
- Asking and answering about the existence of something or someone
- Raising objections
- Talking about something and emphasising it
- Giving an opinion and backing it up with arguments for and against (in writing and out loud)
- Expressing full or partial agreement and disagreement
- Writing a CV
- Talking about life paths
- Expressing wishes and preferences
- Asking for and giving advice
- Making formal requests and demands
- Judging and assessing, stating facts
- Talking about physical activity and health
Grammar
- Presente de subjuntivo
- Pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo
- Subordinate clauses with the indicative
- Subordinate clauses with the subjunctive
- Connectors in subordinate clauses
- Connectors for building an argument
- Using and contrasting all the past tenses (perfecto, indefinido, imperfecto, pluscuamperfecto)
- Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo
- Contrasting the subjunctive: presente versus pretérito imperfecto
- Sequence of tenses in subordinate clauses with the subjunctive
- Impersonal sentences with ser/estar
Vocabulary
- Documentary and report
- Interview
- Guidebook and notes
- Short story
- Personal experience
- Expressing preferences and dislikes
- Probability, assumption and hypothesis
- Ten-point list
- Forum
- Character and personality
- Studying and teaching a language
- Test
- CV
- Opinion, argument and presentation texts
- Music and dance
- Colloquial phrases and expressions
- Devices for organising speech
- Announcement text
- Conversational text, formal and informal
- Website
- Radio and communication
- Testimony
- Advertising and advertising copy
- Health, healthy living and sport
- Devices for expressing an opinion
- Advances in medicine
Úroveň B2.2
Skills
- Talking about memories of the past
- Talking about changes in life
- Talking about how social media have changed our lives
- Expressing a memory of something
- Reflecting on how travel and discovery shape a person
- Defining and describing
- Assessing people, actions, states and things positively or negatively
- Judging and assessing situations
- Talking about different kinds of art
- Writing an art review
- Talking about appearance and resemblance
- Assessing information and expressing an opinion
- Comparing and defining differences
- Describing through imaginary comparisons
- Repeating a conversation
- Passing on and summarising information or a conversation
- Expressing astonishment, indifference or disbelief
- Writing a film review
Grammar
- Modal verb phrases
- Progressive verb phrases
- ponerse, hacerse, vovlerse, quedarse, llegar a ser, convertirse en
- Time expressions for talking about experience
- Contrasting ser/estar
- The passive voice: process and result
- The reflexive passive
- The passive with a direct object
- Impersonal reflexive sentences
- parecer versus parecerse
- Comparison and gradation: superiority, inferiority, equality, relative and absolute superlative
- Using como si, ni que
- Verbs with prepositions
- Estilo directo/indirecto
- Sequence of tenses
- Changes in reported speech (prepositions, pronouns, adverbs...)
Vocabulary
- News article
- Report
- Newspaper headline
- Testimony
- Radio
- Book review
- Interview
- Vocabulary specific to the internet
- Stages of life and physical changes
- Phrases with ponerse + colours
- Travel and travellers
- Quotation
- Forum
- Art
- Ser/estar and the change of meaning
- Radio report
- Describing people
- Colloquial speech
- Presentation text
- Describing a place
- Types of housing
- Buying and renting a home
- Cinema and films
- Surprise, indifference, disbelief
- Lying and lies
Úroveň B2.3
Skills
- Expressing assumptions, wishes and regrets in the past
- Pointing out a past action that came before another
- Talking about imaginary similarities
- Expressing possible and unlikely conditions (present, future)
- Expressing unreal conditions in the past
- Expressing the necessary or sufficient condition for something to happen
- Expressing feelings, likes and emotions
- Talking about travel experiences
- Talking about smells, tastes and the memories tied to them
- Expressing purpose
- Conceding an argument
- Persuading with arguments
- Discussing different professions and their characteristics
- Raising objections to other people's arguments
- Grasping what the speaker is getting at
- Underlining and highlighting people's negative traits
- Speaking badly of someone using positive expressions
- Talking about other people and softening criticism
- Reinforcing or softening your own opinion
Grammar
- Pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo
- Real and unreal conditions
- Conditional connectors
- Condicional compuesto (the compound conditional)
- Verbs of emotion: gustar, alegrarse, sentir, sorprenderse, estar harto de...
- Clauses and conjunctions of purpose
- Concessive clauses and expressions: aunque, por más/mucho/muy que, a pesar de que, pese a
- The gerund of circumstance
- Reduplicated concessive structures
- Time clauses
- Adverbial expressions with -mente and verbs + nouns
- All types of subordinate clause
Vocabulary
- Information text
- Blog
- Refrains
- Social relationships
- Personal experiences
- Personal questionnaire
- History
- Gastronomy and reviews
- Recipes and cooking
- Forum
- Ratings and reviews
- The conference
- Travel and geography
- Expressions used with food
- Presentation article
- Radio discussion
- Interview
- Report
- Definition
- Colloquial dialogues
- New technology
- Work and professions
- Expressions and phrases to do with work
- Informal conversation
- News article
- Radio documentary
- Film script
- Describing people's character
- Bad habits, obsessions and behaviour
Úroveň C1.1
Skills
- Assessing and highlighting someone's behaviour
- Telling a story
- Caricaturing
- Detailed description of a painting
- Describing through comparison
- Talking about an action as a process or as a result
- Bringing up a memory: introductory phrases
- Talking about and describing the past
- Remembering someone who has died
- Arguing for and against with specific examples
- Taking part in a debate
- Using devices to keep a conversation going
- Expressing wishes and cursing
- Expressing feelings
- Reacting to something
- Expressing will, wishes, prohibition, orders and requests in order to influence others
- Giving an opinion or point of view on something
- Influencing other people
- Giving softened orders and commands
- Giving permission
- Repeating an order
- Giving advice and instructions
Grammar
- Contrasting ser/estar
- Expressions with ser/estar + preposition
- Idiomatic expressions with ser/estar
- Emphatic structures with the verb ser
- The passive voice
- The historic present
- The use of and the relationship between the past tenses in the indicative
- pretérito indefinido, perfecto, imperfecto, pluscuamperfecto
- The conditional with past meaning
- Noun clauses
- Verbs and expressions for reaction, will, feeling, wish, prohibition, order, advice, request, mental activity, communication, perception and certainty
- ser + adjective (true or false) + que
- Ojalá, así + subjuntivo
- Verbs with two meanings depending on whether they take the indicative or the subjunctive
- The imperative
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Doubling of object pronouns
- Structures for orders and instructions: presente de indicativo, a + infinitivo/sustantivo, (se ruega) + infinitivo/(se ruega que), que + subjuntivo (he dicho/te digo)
Vocabulary
- Humorous text: joke, cartoon, comic strip, stand-up
- Requests, pleas, insistence
- Vocabulary of humour
- Dictionary abbreviations
- Homophones
- Announcement text
- Radio interview
- Celebratory text
- Theatre review
- Blog
- Argumentative text: theatre funding
- Theatre posters
- Vocabulary and expressions of the theatre
- Survey
- Personality test
- Internet forum about love
- Testimony
- Extract from a doctoral thesis
- Words of Latin and Greek origin
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Happiness and shopping
- Advertising copy and its social and cultural impact
- Specialist announcement
- Readers' forum
- Extract from a novel
- Vocabulary of advertising
- The language of advertising
Classroom
Výuka probíhá prezenčně v učebně Room 1.
Which coursebook do we use?
Na kurzu P2026C1.2a se používá učebnice Nuevo Prisma C1 - Libro del alumno.
Obsahem kurzu jsou lekce 5 - 8.
Nuevo Prisma C1 - Libro del alumno
$45
Course teacher
Javiera Fernanda Pérez Hernández
general Spanish, conversation, Spanish for children
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