Course detail
Spanish Pre-Intermediate - Part 1
FAST-BYS2Acad. year: 2011/2012
This course concentrates on the following areas:
- understand daily life phrases and gain the ability to introduce yourself and the others,
- be able to express ideas in the future and in the past tens.
The course will conclude with test, which will asses the students’ knowledge of useful vocabulary and phrases.
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Course curriculum
Week 1 - Unit 6 – Describe a person, how is he or she and what is he or she doing. Family members.
Week 2 - Unit 6 – Reflexive verbs. Adjectives to describe personality and physical appearance.
Week 3 - Unit 7 – Go shopping: know how to describe clothes materials and decoration. Ask about price.
Week 4 - Unit 7 – Colors, special verbs with pronouns: gustar, quedar, parecer.
Week 5 - Unit 8 – Months, years, horoscopes. Ask about instantaneous actions – use of the –ing form.
Week 6 - Unit 8 – Activities and places for relax. Traditional fiestas in Spain.
Week 7 - Unit 9 – Express intentions or plans for the future. Make alternative plans. Call to somebody.
Week 8 - Unit 9 – Placement of personal pronouns. Distinction between future and present tense.
Week 9 - Unit 10 – Talk about past events. Ask about the reason and explain oneself. Geography vocabulary.
Week 10 – Unit 10 – Préterito perfecto compuesto tense. Préterito Indefinido of verbs Estar and Ir.
Week 11 – Practicing of studied grammar and vocabulary.
Week 12– Conversation about the studied themes.
Week 13 – Tests.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-K-C-GK Bachelor's
branch G , 1 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
- Programme B-P-C-GK Bachelor's
branch G , 1 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, summer semester, recommended course