Spanish 4 (Level 4)
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Overview
Please note: classes for this course run for two and a half hours.
Leading to CEFR C1 (Advanced)/post-A-level*, this Spanish 4 (Level 4) short course builds on and broadens your existing knowledge and skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish. The emphasis is on expanding your vocabulary, developing accuracy in oral and written communication, and learning to use more complex grammatical structures and sentences (e.g. compound sentences). You will be expected to understand a variety of texts from a range of media, including literary texts, TV programmes and films. Materials in different varieties of Latin American and Peninsular Spanish will be used for reading and listening comprehension practice.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly
- understand television programmes and films without too much effort
- understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style
- understand specialised articles and longer technical instructions, even when they do not relate to your field
- express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions
- use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes
- formulate ideas and opinions with precision and relate your contribution skilfully to those of other speakers
- present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion
- express yourself in clear, well-structured text, expressing points of view at some length
- write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what you consider to be the salient issues
- select style appropriate to the reader in mind.
Assessment consists of continuous (20%), listening in-class (20%), written in-class (35%) and oral in-class assessment (20%) and class participation (5%).
* Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Please note: this is only an approximate equivalence.
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Most of our short courses have no formal entry requirements and are open to all students.
You should choose this course:
- if you have previously taken Spanish 3 with us; or
- if you have studied Spanish and/or lived in a Spanish-speaking country for at least a year following an A-level or equivalent qualification in the language; or
- if you believe that you may have reached level B2 according to the CEFR.*
If you enrol for this course, we may ask you to take a placement test, to check your level. We may advise you to go down a class (i.e. to Spanish 3).
As part of the enrolment process, you may be required to submit a copy of a suitable form of ID.
International students who wish to come to the UK to study a short course can apply for a Visitor visa. Please note that it is not possible to obtain a Student visa to study a short course.
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How to apply
How to apply
You register directly onto the classes you would like to take. Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis - so apply early. If you wish to take more than one short course, you can select each one separately and then register onto them together via our online application portal. There is usually no formal selection process, although some modules may have prerequisites and/or other requirements, which will be specified where relevant.