Gran Canaria School of Languages. Spanisch Intensivkurse.

Gran Canaria School of Languages

C/ Dr. Grau Bassas 27

E - 35007 Las Palmas GC

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Spanish courses since 1964.

 

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Spanish Courses for specific purposes

 

Besides the courses in General Spanish and the DELE preparation courses, the Gran Canaria SOL also offers 11 courses in Spanish for specific purposes. Each of these courses requires a minimum level of pre-knowledge of Spanish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Culture and civilization: Life in Spain

INTENDED FOR:   Of general interest

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  A2

 

DURATION:  1 module (10 hours)

 

STARTING:  Any Monday

 

CONTENTS:

 

1.  Spain

-           Basic information. Climate. Population.

-           Territorial organization

-           Languages

-           Clichés and stereotypes

 

2.  Society and the family

-           The Spanish family

-           Spanish society

-           Aging of population

-           Young people

 

3.  Timetables

-           The Spanish and their concept of time

-           Unpunctuality

-           Timetables for public establishments

 

4.  Spanish customs

-           Social interaction

-           Spain as a culture of contact

-           Gestures

-           Use of and usted

 

5.  Leisure time.  Bars and restaurants

-           Types of premises

-           Restaurants

-           The art of eating tapas

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish painting: Renaissance and Baroque

INTENDED FOR:   Module for students and teachers interested in the art of  the period

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B1

 

DURATION:  1 module (10 hours)

 

STARTING:  Any Monday

 

CONTENTS:

 

1.  Painting of the Spanish Renaissance

2.  Renaissance painters:  Pedro Berruguete, Juan de Juanes

3.  Mannerism and Low Renaissance in Spain

4.  El Greco

5.  Summary of the material taught and commented on in previous days

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish for professional purposes:  health services

INTENDED FOR:  Doctors, nurses and other health professionals.  Students interested in the health sector

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B2

 

DURATION:  40 hours. The student can spread the hours in different visits and receive a certificate of hours and content for each visit.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday.

 

CONTENTS:  

 

MODULE 1

(All themes are compulsory)

 

- Health assistance in Spain

- First aid centre

- Emergencies

- Surgery

- Nursing care

MODULE 2

(Student  must choose four themes out of six proposed ones, as per his interest and needs)

 

- Allergology, ophthalmology, dermatology

- Obstetrics, pediatrics

- Doctors without borders, infectious illnesses

- Oncology

- Traumatology

- Radio diagnostics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish for professional purposes:  business

INTENDED FOR: Students of general Spanish, professionals in contact with business Spanish:

employees, professionals, company owners, students of all areas. Spanish teachers seeking

specialization or to widen their knowledge.

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B2

 

DURATION:  40 hours. The student may spread the hours in different visits and receive a certificate of hours and content for each visit.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday.

 

CONTENTS:

BLOCK 1

(All themes are compulsory)

 

 

-           Company organization

-           Company plan

-           Commercial relations

-           Buying and selling

-           Starting out.  Necessary steps

-           Personnel wanted

BLOCK 2

(Student  must choose four themes out of six proposed ones, as per his interest and needs)

 

-           Advertising

-           Banking

-           Business meetings

-           Strategies

-           Company challenges and success

-           Communication by phone

 

 

 

 

 

Colloquial  Spanish

INTENDED FOR:   General interest

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B2

 

DURATION:  20 hours.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday. The student may spread the hours in different visits and receive a certificate of hours and content for each visit.

 

CONTENTS: 

 

1.  Linguistic resources:  standard Spanish, colloquial Spanish, slang.

 

2.  Resources to express emotionality: intonation, interjections and interjectional expressions, hyperbolic expressions, irony.

 

3.  Appellative function: formulas of courtesy, requests,  tranquillity; vocatives, fatic formulas, formulas of reaffirmation, agreement and comprehension; formulas for explanations, apologies, and incitement. Forms of address and appeals: diminutives and nicknames.

 

4.  Interrogations: inquisitive questions, inquisitive-expressive questions, rhetorical questions

 

5.  Affirmations and negations

 

6.  Ellipsis and linguistic economy: sentential interruptions, refrains

 

7.  Iterations: emphatic and formulary  iterations

 

8.  Word order:  verb-subject inversion, ante-position of other sentential elements.

 

9.  Particles: que, pues, pero, si, y.

 

10. The deixis:  personal pronouns, impersonalization of speaker, dative of interest. The neutral demonstrative eso: deictic uses.

 

11.  Substitutes and fill-ins.

 

12.  Colloquial vocabulary – Sayings, idioms and phrases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History:  The Catholic Monarchs

INTENDED FOR:   Module for students and teachers interested in the history of the period.

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B2

 

DURATION:  10 hours

 

STARTING:  Any Monday

 

CONTENTS: 

 

1.  Introduction:   the social and political environs of the times

 

2.  The union of the two Spains

 

3.  The Discovery of America

 

4.  The Arab culture, the expulsion of the Jews and the incorporation of the Canaries to the Crown of Castile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History:  The Spanish transition – from dictatorship to democracy

INTENDED FOR:   Module for students and teachers interested in the change from the dictatorship

                            to democracy in Spain

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B1

 

DURATION:  20 hours.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday. The student may spread the hours in different visits and receive a certificate of hours and content for each visit.

 

CONTENTS: 

 

1.  The naming of Juan Carlos as Franco’s successor

 

2.  Assassination of Carrero Blanco and ETA

 

3.  Last death sentences given by Franco

 

4.  Death of Franco

 

5.  The Church before and after Franco

 

6.  Legalization of PCE (Spanish Communist Party)

 

7.  The Madrilenian movement

 

8.  The coup d’état by Tejero

 

9.  The Constitution

 

10.  Voices of the Transition and documentary

 

 

 

 

Spanish Literature – The Generation of  ‘27

INTENDED FOR:  Of general interest.  Students of Spanish Philology

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  B2

 

DURATION:  20 hours.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday. The student may spread the hours in different visits and receive a certificate of hours and content for each visit.

 

CONTENTS: 

 

1.  Historical, social and cultural aspects

     1.1  Birth of the so-called Generación del 27

 

2.  Poetic tendencies

     2.1  Ultraísmo

-           Guillermo de Torre

-           Ramón Gómez de la Serna

     2.2  Creacionismo

-           Vicente Huidobro

-           Gerardo Diego

     2.3  Pure poetry

-           Juan Ramón Jiménez

-           León Felipe

-           Pedro Salinas

 

3.  La Generación del 27

      Pedro Salinas

-           Jorge Guillén

-           Gerardo Diego

-           Vicente Aleixandre

-           Federico García Lorca

-           Rafael Alberti

 

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Spanish Literature – The Ingenious “Hidalgo” Don Quixote of La Mancha

INTENDED FOR:   Module for students and teachers interested in the works of Cervantes

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  C1

 

DURATION:  10 hours.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday

 

CONTENTS: 

 

-  The masterpiece of our literature

 

-  Introduction to the Spanish Siglo de Oro (Golden Age)

 

-  Popular vocabulary and expressions related with the times

 

 

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The Press

INTENDED FOR:  Of general interest. 

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  C1

 

DURATION:  10 hours.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday

 

CONTENTS: 

 

-  Structure of newspapers

-  Kinds of journalism (opinion and news article)

-  Advertising

 

 

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Spanish of  America

INTENDED FOR:  Of general interest.  Students of Spanish Philology

 

MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED:  C1

 

DURATION:  20 hours.

 

STARTING:  Any Monday. The student may spread the hours in different visits and receive a certificate of hours and content for each visit.

 

CONTENTS: 

 

1.  History and civilization

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