Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Understand the main points of clear, standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered; understand the main points of many radio and TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interests then the delivery is relatively slow and clear.
• Understand texts that consist mainly of high frequency everyday or job-related language.
• Deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken; enter unprepared into conversations on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life.
• Write simple and connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

Leer entre líneas – expressing probability in the present, past and future, making predictions, what could have happened? Comics and books

Por tu futuro – writing application letters, Cuban music, colloquial expressions

A punto de terminar – Television and film, expressions with infinitives, expressing obligations, suppositions, repetitions etc.

Viaja con nosotros – Expressing consequence, describing traditions, expeditions, guides and travel.