Intermediate 1

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For university students of Business Studies and Economics, as well as entrepreneurs, investors, executives and managers, and people who need in their professional development or require in their academic training a better knowledge and use of Spanish in economics, business and finance.

Contents – Topics

  • Empresas y asalariados (Companies and employees), Cifras (Numbers)
  • Jornada laboral y salarios (Workday and wages)
  • Trabajo y futuro (Work and future)
  • Empresas trabajan para empresas (Companies working for companies)
  • Sectores económicos (Economic sectors)
  • Producción y distribución (Production and distribution)

Learning Tasks

  • Definir, resumir, redactar, explicar
  • Comentar tablas y gráficos
  • Referirse a algo, negar algo
  • Fundamentar un tema con hechos e informaciones
  • Corregir, contrastar, oponer
  • Comprensión auditiva
  • Expresiones vocabulario específico
  • Expresar suma, posibilidad de optar, oposición, contraste
  • negar o corregir
  • Expresar posibilidad, deseo, duda, esperanza, necesidad, opinión negativa, sentimiento
  • Valorar, intentar influir en alguien, expresar reacción
  • Referir motivo, condición, finalidad, oposición
  • Expresar hipótesis, probabilidad, suposición
  • Presentar un plan con referencias temporales 
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Speech situations

Case studies

  • Informes
  • Balances
  • Proyectos
  • Presentar productos
  • Negociaciones
  • Gestiones administrativas
  • Asesoramiento
  • Estrategias
  • Publicidad
  • Reuniones de trabajo
  • Entrevistas
  • Contrataciones
  • Presentaciones
  • Contratos
  • Gestión de Personal
  • Compras
  • Ventas
  • Gestión de cartera de valores e inversiones
  • Consultas a expertos
  • Administración Pública
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Experience

The teacher, author and coordinator of the course, Manuel Coello Arias, has carried out these courses during his work as a teacher at the German Open University (FernUniversität in Hagen), at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and during his stay at the Universidad Central del Paraguay, publishing the teaching material for the intermediate and advanced levels in two versions: Spanish-English/ Spanish- German.

His teaching work is complemented by publications for the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Lucius & Lucius publishing house and the Santillana publishing house, as well as his collaboration with the Technical Commission of the Education Department of the Spanish Embassy in Germany, with the Instituto Cervantes as an evaluator for the DELE exams and with didactic improvement courses for teachers.