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WHAT IS DELE?
Diplomas in Spanish as a Foreign Language Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera: DELE) are the only officially accredited certificates for Spanish as a foreign language and as a second language. The diplomas are issued by the Spanish Ministry for educational. DELE exams are organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish government, through the Ministry of Education.
Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE) are official titles certifying degree of competence and mastery of the Spanish language, granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain.
The Instituto Cervantes organizes examination sessions, while the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain designs the exams, and is in charge of corrections and the final evaluation of all exams.
DELE exams certificates are valid for lifetime.
If any student wish to take DELE exam, he/she must not be citizen of the country where Spanish is mother tongue.
For DELE Junior exam the minimum age of student must be 12 years.
For DELE Senior the age of student must be 16 years (Those students who have not attained the age of 18 years but 16 years old may appear in DELE senior
Or DELE ESCOLAR (Junior) exam.
This is the choice of student in which exam he/she wants to register.
The test has six different levels from which you can choose at will.
SPANISH PROFICIENY LEVEL AS PER CEFR NORMS
A1 (Breakthrough or Beginner) |
A2 (Way stage or Elementary) |
B1 (Threshold or intermediate) |
B2 (Vantage or upper intermediate) |
C1 (Effective Operational Proficiency Advanced) |
C2 (Mastery / proficiency / Near-native). |
LEVELS OF SPANISH LANGUAGE
Level A1
Duration: 100 Hours
( 50 Hours Lectures+ 50 Hours Practice)
User can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. User can interact in a simple way like asking questions and answering basic things provided the other person talks slowly and clearly.
NOTE : Spanish A1 is all about learning basic vocabulary
Eg : He lives in ajmer.
In spanish : vive en ajmer
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Salutations
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Alphabets
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Phonetics, Orthographs, punctuations
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Numbers (Ordinal, Cardinal)
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Irregular Verbs (estar,tener/haber and Interogativeform)
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Expressions with estar verb
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Expressions with tener/ haber
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Regular Verbes Conjugation (ER, IR, AR ending)
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Possessive Adjective
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Demonstrative Adjectives
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Adjectives of Nationalities, Quality, Quantity
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Pronouns (COD, COI)
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Future Proche (Near Future Tense)
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Passe Recent (Near Past Tense)
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Interrogative Pronouns
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How To Frame Questions (Questionaire)
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Negative Form Adjectives
ROLE PLAYS
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How to do shopping
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How to book a room
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How to make an appointment
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Enquiry about registration
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Rent a car / apartment
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What to do if you are lost in France
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Take help
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Offer Services
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Describe the house, third person
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To talk about timings
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Talk about events, Festivals
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Take services from library
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Public transports
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Accept or reject proposals
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Go for holidays, Vacations
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How to tell about weather
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Professions with places
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To describe climate of city, country
Suggested Text book:
Aula internacional
WRITTEN TOPICS
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How to Fill Registration form
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How to write a letter
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To invite someone for any occasion(Birthday, Marriage, Festival…)
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Accept or Refuse invitation
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Invite a friend to watch movie, to spend vacations with you
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To tell your family or friend about your new city, new City
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Invite a French friend to spend vacations in your country
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Write good wishes to someone for his exams, new job…
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Write to ask for services (Hotel reservation, book a tour…)
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Email a friend to ask his/her news
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Respond an informal email
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Write an informal postcard
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Write a condolence message
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Respond a letter
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To react according to subject
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Write about your Spanish classes (Experience, Teacher….)
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Family and Social Relations
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Loisirs Activities, Hobbies
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Spanish Festivals, Rituals, Occasions, Myths, Important dates
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Cities of Spain their geographical, historical, economic, political importance
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Spanish Speaking countries
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Study of Popular Monuments of Spain
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Basic information about Spanish speaking countries
DELEA1 EXAM PAPERS
Reading comprehension test A1
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CL_T1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CL_T2.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CL_T3.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CL_T4.pdf
KEY: https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CL_Claves.pdf
Hearing comprehension test
1 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_T1.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Audio_T1.mp3
TRASCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Audio_T1.mp3
2 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_T2.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Audio_T2.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Trans_T2.pdf
3 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_T3.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Audio_T3.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Trans_T3.pdf
4 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CL_T4.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Audio_T4.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_CA_Trans_T4.pdf
Written expression and interaction test
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_EIE_T1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a1/A1_0720_EIE_T2.pdf
Spanish A2
Duration: 100 Hours
(50 Hours Lectures + 50 Practice)
User understands sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance They can communicate and exchange information on familiar and routine matters in simple terms regarding matters in areas of basic need.
Eg : Definition of friendship, Qualities and imperfections of a friend
DURATION : 25- 26 Hours
This section holds 25 maks of the total
Topics
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Subjective Moods
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Conditional Moods
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Plu Perfect Tense (Plus que Parfait)
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Hypothetical Sentences
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Active Passive
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Direct Indirect
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Use of Past Tense
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Use of Gerund
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Form a story using Perfect and Imperfect tense
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Use of Relative Pronouns
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French Conjunctions
Section holds 25 marks
This part is divided in 2 parts
A) Monologue – Present yourself in Spanish and some basic questions centered around daily life
B) Role play
Topics of Monologue
1. Speak about about your family
2. Speak about the person you love
3. To tell about the festivals of your country
4. Speak over the country you want to live in explaining the reason
5. About your favorite book
6. Festivals & Traditions of your country
7. Tell about the movie you’ve watched recently
8. Talk about your studies and your future goals
9. To talk about past events, accident, Incidents, Visits
10. Unforgettable moments
11. To talk about your regret, desire
12. To deal with complex situations
13. To describe a place, person in detail
14. To give impression about place
15. To defend opinion
16. To talk about social issues, events, festivals, rituals..
17. To describe a place, person in detail
18. To give definitions (What is friendship, Intelligence…)
19. To describe a place, person in detail
Topics Of Role plays
1. To buy movie tickets, Museum, Opera Evening
2. Book a restaurant for an event
3. Ask for specific food or drinks
4. File a complain (To repost against lost bags, wallet, suitcase, passport…)
5. To ask for permission for some activity
6. To give explanations, Excuses
7. Making announcements
8. Plan a tour, Vacations, Trips
9. Urgent call ( Medical emergency, report an incident…)
10. Rent or buy a car, apartment
11. To convince for an activity, work, food, event, meeting
12. Describe your Profile
13. Importance of learning Spanish
Suggested Text book:
Aula internacional 2
This section holds 25 marks
Read brochure, Advertisements, Website content, Services
Read short news articles on social issues including
1. Travel diaries
2. Media
3. Mode Of Communication
4. Biography of a person
5. Environment
This section is of 25 marks
LETTER TOPICS
1. Write about unforgettable moments
2. Write your experience about Past events, Visits, Festivals Celebrated, Marriage
3. Write about impression about place visited
4. Express your opinion
5. Write Personal Journal
6. Accept, refuse, post pone invitations
7. To ask for advice from friend
8. How to write Personal Journal, Blog
9. Describe about events of past accident, incident, conflict
10. Invite a friend to attend some event, occasion
11. To Inquire about services from hotel, muesum
Reading comprehension test
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_T1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_T2.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_T3.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_T4.pdf
KEY- https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_Claves.pdf
Hearing comprehension test
1 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CA_T1.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/audio/a2/A2_0220_CA_Audio_T1.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CA_Trans_T1.pdf
2 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_T2.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/audio/a2/A2_0220_CA_Audio_T2.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CA_Trans_T2.pdf
3 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CA_T3.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/audio/a2/A2_0220_CA_Audio_T3.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CA_Trans_T3.pdf
4 https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CL_T4.pdf
AUDIO
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/audio/a2/A2_0220_CA_Audio_T4.mp3
TRANSCRIPTION
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_CA_Trans_T4.pdf
Written expression and interaction test
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_EIE_T1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/a2/A2_0220_EIE_T2.pdf
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User understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
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Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
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Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
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Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
1. To speak for 3 to 5 minutes on social topic, news article
2. Describe about personal and professional journey
3. Capable to understand a document of press, radio conversations
4. To give opinion on social issues, events
5. Defend and prepare argument on given subject
6. Emotions (Jealousy, Fatigue, Anger, Love, Stress…)
7. Conclude an argument bravely
8. Enjoy effortlessly dealing with complex situations likely to arise in daily life
9. Deal with mature conversations
10. General awareness about German psychology and Civilization
11. Social issues and problems in Germany
12. Social awareness and challenges
13. Capable to describe any word, place, event, person, situation without making grammatical errors.
14. Spontaneous Roleplays
Suggested Textbook :
Aula Internacional
1. Interview conversations, Debates
2. Understand corporate and political world
3. General awareness about German Civilization
4. Social issues and problems in Germany
5. Social awareness and challenges
Temas de escritura
Ha recibido un pedido de un conductor de entrega que no sea La Poste y descubre que las mercancías están dañadas cuando el paquete parecía estar intacto. Usted envía una carta de queja a la empresa que ordenó para encontrar reparación.
En los últimos años, en Francia, la mezcla de escuelas ha sido objeto de debates: ¿deberíamos mantener las escuelas mixtas, donde las niñas y los niños estudian juntos, o no sería mejor volver a escuelas separadas para niñas y niños?
¿Está a favor o en contra de la diversidad en la escuela?
Tu amigo no escribe bien francés. Para ayudarlo, escribes un pequeño relato de lo que pasó para su agente de seguros. 160-180 palabras.
Tienes que explicar:
¿Qué causó la inundación?
Lo que hizo entonces (sin duda llamó a una tienda de conveniencia… pero era un domingo!)
La extensión de los daños (objetos dañados, daños en la casa)
Trabajo a considerar
La consecuencia de su vida inmediata.
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_cl_t1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_cl_t2.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_cl_t3.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_cl_t4.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_cl_t5.pdf
KEY:- https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_cl_claves.pdf
Written Interaction Test
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_eie_t1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b1_eie_t2.pdf
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Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
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Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
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Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages.
You need
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To understand what is the tone, mood, sense, expression, emotions, intention, context, ideology, point of view, purpose of the speaker.
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Good awareness topics related to social problems, Social reforms, of France and French Speaking (Francophone) countries.
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Sound knowledge of French life, Cultural values, Rituals, Social Evils, Social conflicts.
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How to win over of technical terminology
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Develop competency to debate (20 minutes) on news articles, bulletins, radio interviews, blogs, current affairs and other long documents with defending own point of view bravely.
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Ability to use language without committing any Grammatical errors using synonyms and antonyms.
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Find out the real problems or challenges in the document and prepare arguments for a strategy to debate with jury.
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Ability to speak on hypothetical, Socio-Economical, Political, Technological, Spiritual, Vocational, Educational, Environmental, Socio-Legal, Psychological, Motivational, Cultural topics.
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Can maintain Spontaneous, Fluent, Effortless, Comprehensive, Clear, Brave, Polite, Initiative, Argumentative Conversations.
TOPICS
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exponer el pensamiento abstracto, comentar
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aprobar, desaprobar, justificar el punto de vista, hacer una concesión, marcar la oposición, resaltar, insistir, demostrar, exponer, analizar
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hacer suposiciones, expresar probabilidad
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Dar los pros y los contras
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fortalecer, aclarar, matizar
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participar, continuar una conversación, terminarla, invitar a alguien a unirse a una conversación
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decir que entendemos
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dejar claro
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reformular
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Presentar las opiniones de los demás
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Resumir
Extraordinary listening skills are required.
Conversations of native speakers (Formal and Informal), Speeches, Journal, Audio Transcripts with their actual context.
TOPICS
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Puede incluir conferencias y discursos bastante largos e incluso seguir un argumento complejo si el tema es relativamente familiar.
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Puede incluir la mayoría de los programas de televisión en las noticias y la información.
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Puede incluir la mayoría de las películas en lenguaje estándar.
Suggested Text Book :
Aula Internacional
Extract the information and facts from comprehensive document.
TOPICS
1. Puede leer artículos e informes sobre cuestiones contemporáneas en los que los autores adoptan una actitud o punto de vista particular.
2. Puede incluir un texto literario contemporáneo en prosa.
temas actuales y hechos sociales:
Política
Religión
Educación
Ecología
Cultura
Ley y justicia
Defensa
Economía
Salud
Historia
Moda
– mundo del trabajo
1. Puede escribir textos claros y detallados sobre una amplia gama de temas relacionados con mis intereses.
2. Puede escribir un ensayo o informe transmitiendo información o estableciendo razones para o en contra de una opinión dada.
3. Puede escribir cartas que resalten el significado que personalmente atribuyo a eventos y experiencias
Como qué:
Su revista favorita acaba de publicar un informe en el que elogia a Internet. En tu opinión, es una herramienta que hace que la comunicación sea cada vez más virtual. Escribes un artículo para esta revista en el que expresas tu preocupación y propones soluciones para evitar que Internet se convierta en el centro de una vida social desconectada. (250 palabras más o menos).
Reading comprehension test
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b2_cl_t1.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b2_cl_t2.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b2_cl_t3.pdf
https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b2_cl_t4.pdf
KEY: https://examenes.cervantes.es/sites/default/files/b2_ca_claves.pdf
We prepare students for as per of norms of CEFR ( Common European Framework Reference for Languages)
On reaching c1 level of language learner becomes proficient user
Now he can
1. Understand wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning.
2. Expresses fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
3. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
4. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices
5. Understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.
6. Summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation.
7. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely in complex situations.
1. Active participation in organized debate s
2. Public communication with professionals on political issues council,
local or national assemblies, political-party or union meetings)
3. Radio broadcasts, recorded messages
4. Participation in court hearings and formal hearings
Public speeches to familiar or friendly listeners expressing sympathy, condolences, happiness, prayersa
Long, complex, argumentative speeches (proselytizing and political discourse) including thesis, legal actions and declarations
Reading Daily press or newspapers (journals, weeklies, monthlies…) international, national, regional or
local news: politics, society, economics, arts and entertainment, science, sport.
brief news,
editorials, notices, points of view, reports, conversations, interviews,
stock ratings, horoscopes,
publicity, sponsored articles
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, language dictionaries, manuals, text books,
monographs, summaries, travel-guides, aide-memoirs, précis, tracts.
Suggested Text Book:
Aula Internacional
Daily press or newspapers (journals, weeklies, monthlies…) international, national, regional or
local news: politics, society, economics, arts and entertainment, science, sport.
brief news,
editorials, notices, points of view, reports, conversations, interviews,
stock ratings, horoscopes,
publicity, sponsored articles
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, language dictionaries, manuals, text books,
monographs, summaries, travel-guides.
Write the summary of newspaper articles, speeches
Essays about a controversial topics including:
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Urbanismo
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Ecología
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Investigación Espacial
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Investigación Médica
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Progreso científico
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Educación Científica
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Los peligros de la ciencia