Course detail

Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students

FEKT-NJS2Acad. year: 2010/2011

This course is a follow-up course to JS1.It develops communicative abilities,vocabulary and grammar,it offers listening with the use of more advanced audio- and video-courses.In the summer semester basic terminology in technical Spanish will be offered.Students will be lent original Spanish textbooks for work in class.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Language skills and grammar in Spanish at a lower-intermediate level.

Prerequisites

a completed JS1 course or equivalent knowledge

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

2 semester tests and an examination

Course curriculum

Introduction and programme of the course
Revision of some points from JS1
Plans,future tenses
Date,ordinal numbers
How long...?Fractions and decimal fractions
Articles used with names of days,irregular verbs,exclamations
Weather,comparison of adjectives
In a café,the verbs:decir,traer
My holidays,past imperfect tense
Cinema,present conditional,dependent pronouns
Smoking,how to introduce oneself,prohibitions,advice
Revision
Semester test
Revision of the winter semester,conversation
Shopping,interrogative and relative pronouns,adverbs
Travelling,past simple tense,conjunctions e,u
Money exchange,past simple of irregular verbs
Arrival,technical text 1
Accomodation,prepositional structures
Post office,gerund
Progressive tenses,technical text 2
La América Latina,past participle,haber,compound infinitive
Letter Writing,present perfect tense,
Passive voice,technical text 3
Revision
Semester test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To develop language skills acquired in JS1.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

kolektiv: VEN, díl 1 i 2, Edelsa, Madrid, Espana
Videokursy Este país a Apartamento para dos

Type of course unit

Language exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Syllabus

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students

Type of course unit