Course detail
Spanish language A2 - 2
FP-SJ2AAcad. year: 2015/2016
Content of the course
Practical skills: Biography, hobbies, expressing how long events last, events in progress, interrupted actions, moods, personality, expressing opinion, expressing agreement and disagreement, expressing obligation using personal and impersonal verb forms, instructions and commands, expressing possibilities, asking for directions, expressing approximate time and distance, reported speech, interjections, asking for information
Grammar: Revision of past tenses, estaba + gerund, llevar + gerund, verbs ser + estar, future simple, verb parecer, present subjunctive, imperative including its negative form, conditional simple, impersonal use of se, past perfect, reported speech in affirmative tenses and questions.
Vocabulary: Personal data, adjectives describing mood, housework, cooking, cousine, travelling and free time, daily newspaper, hobbies
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The final exam is a written test that includes listening comprehension and oral part.
Course curriculum
1. week - Unidad 1 - Biography. Description of hobbies and preferences.
2. week - Unidad 1 Describing events "in progress" using ESTAR + gerund, LLEVAR + gerund.
3. week - Unidad 2 Description of moods. Description of personality. Giving opinions. Adjectives describing personality.
4. week - Unidad 2 More advance uses of SER and ESTAR. Future simple tense of regular and some irregular verbs.
5. week - Unidad 3 Duties, things that "SHOULD" and "HAVE TO" be done. Giving orders and commands.
6. week - Unidad 3 Subjunctive mood of regular verbs. Imperative and negative imperative. Vocabulary connected with housework.
7. week - Unidad 4 Expressing probability and doubts. Asking for directions.
8. week - Unidad 4 Conditional sentences. Past perfect tense of regular and irregular verbs.
9. week - Unidad 5 Reported speech. Giving information about events.
10. week - Unidad 5 Sequence of tenses and their introductory verbs and tenses in affirmative and interrogative questions.
11. week - Revision of tenses
12. week - Conversation in relation to the content of the course
13. week - "End of course test" (according to specification of tutor)
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BAK Bachelor's
branch BAK-EPM , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch BAK-EP , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch BAK-UAD , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective - Programme BAK-KME Bachelor's
branch BAK-MME , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MGR Master's
branch MGR-UFRP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MGR-PFO , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MGR-ŘEP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
Type of course unit
Language exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Week 1 - Unit 13A – Conditional simple tense.
Week 2 - Unit 13B –Future simple tense and its use. Conditional sentences (real conditions).
Week 3 - Unit 13C – Direct and indirect object pronoun. Spelling rules of word stress.
Week 4 - Unit 14A – Past tense for habits and repeated actions.
Week 5 - Unit 14B – Comparative and superlative.
Week 6 - Unit 14C- Following instructions for directions. Spelling and pronunciation rules for diphthongs.
Week 7 - Unit 15A- Shopping over the phone.
Week 8 - Unit 15B- Indefinite pronouns. Spelling and pronunciation rules for vowels that do not form diphtongs.
Week 9 - Unit 15C –Impersonal pronouns using /se/
Week 10 -Unit 16A – Imperative and negative imperative.
Week 11 -Unit 16B - Moods. Verbs /ser/ /estar/
Week 12 -Unit 16C – Subjunctive of the present tense and its use in formal situations.
Week 13 - End of course test (if not specified otherwise by tutor).
Teaching method
contact sessions using text book and audiovisual equipment.