CEPEX - Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota:
The Externado University is a prestigious university with years of experience in high quality education. As part of this University, the CEPEX has the same aim of providing quality education to its students. The Centre offers Spanish language tuition at all levels to students at all levels and from varying backgrounds, while helping them to understand the Colombian and Latin American culture and way of life. With start dates throughout the year, a choice of intensive and semi-intensive Spanish language courses and a wide variety of course topics, the CEPEX programs offer you the flexibility to fit your lifestyle. The CEPEX office and courses is located in one of the most desirable parts of Bogota; the historical centre of the Candelaria. This neighborhood is renowned for its colonial architecture and old world charm, offering many tourist activities for between classes.
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BEGINNER
Upon completing this course, the student will have acquired a basic communicative competence that allows him/her to understand simple everyday conversations, as well as to satisfy his/her immediate needs. He/She will also be able to understand everyday media subjects. The student will be able to carry out simple everyday tasks in Spanish. He/She will be able to write short simple texts on everyday matters.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Greetings
• Exchanging personal information
• Requesting and giving the time
• Identifying relationships
• Expressing possessions
• Physical description of people
• Expressing moods and describing personality
• Expressing physical conditions and pain
• Interacting in cafés, shops and restaurants
• Describing places & locations in Bogotá
• Expressing general opinions
• Speaking on the telephone
• Expressing future plans
• Speaking about past activities
• Recognising generalities of the Colombian culture
INTERMEDIATE
Upon completion of this course, the student will have developed an intermediate communicative competence that allows him/her to understand relatively complex texts on various themes. He/she will be able to communicate in work, study or free settings. Similarly, he/she will be able to communicate with native speakers of the language with a degree of fluency. The student will be able to write coherent texts that express ideas and opinions on various subjects.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Speaking about habitual actions in the past
• Describing past experiences
• Requesting information or help
• Excusing oneself
• Talking about future plans
• Using superlatives to express qualities and draw comparisons
• Expressing likes and dislikes
• Giving orders, instructions and advice
• Formulating hypothesis
• Making suggestions
• Writing texts in different verb tenses
• Giving one’s opinion on current affairs
• Comparing one’s own customs with Colombian ones
• Recognising and using Latin American expressions
ADVANCED
At the end of this level, the student will have developed an advanced communicative competence that allows him/her to understand a wide range of demanding and extensive texts that may include implicit information. He/she will also be able to speak with fluency and spontaneity in different social, academic and professional settings. The student will be able to understand most of what he/she hears and reads. He/She will transmit information using expressions of cause and effect and will be able to relay what others have said.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Narrating and relating experiences in the past
• Expressing wishes
• Transmitting information through cause-effect expression
• Relaying what others say
• Forming questions and affirmations regarding the unknown
• Forming questions and affirmations regarding the future
• Expressing opinions and doubts
• Formulating possibilities and hypothesis
• Justifying attitudes
• Expressing uncertainty
• Expressing conditions
• Reading short literary texts by Latin American authors
• Understanding situations and characters that form part of Colombia’s political and economic history
CONVERSATION & WRITING
Upon completing this course, the student will have developed a high communicative competence that will allow him/her to understand and discuss texts of diverse genres, formats and subject matter. The student will be able to write different types of texts to a high degree of perfection. He/she will differentiate between different accents of native Spanish speakers. The student will be able to summarise information taken from various written or oral sources. He/she will also be able to analyse authentic documents that reflect different varieties of Spanish, such as radio or television news, commercials, films or songs.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Discussing literary, historical, informative texts.
• Analysing authentic documents in a variety of Spanish (radio & TV news, commercials, films, music etc)
• Telling stories
• Expressing agreement and disagreement
• Summarising and re-telling
• Reporting national news items
• Expressing conditions and supporting arguments
• Writing formal and informal letters
• Writing news, reports, summaries etc
• Writing a CV
• Discussing matters that require specific vocabulary
• Analysing Latin American films with social, historical or political content
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