Course details

Spanish for Beginners 1/2

JS1 Acad. year 2016/2017 Winter semester 3 credits

Current academic year

This new communicative course - Spanish for Beginners - will offer practising pronunciation,basic grammar,conversation in everyday situations,reading and listening.Original Spanish textbooks,audio- and videocourses will be used in classes.

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit

Time span

  • 26 hrs exercises

Department

Instructor

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The student will get knowledge of basic Spanish grammar. The student will be able to use basic vocabulary. The student will be able to understand simple statements in Spanish and communicate Spanish in everyday life. The student will be able to understand simple written texts with use of dictionary.

Learning objectives

The students will acquire knowledge of elementary Spanish and they will be able to have conversation in past, present and future tenses. They will able to communicate in shops, restaurants and in other everyday situations. This will be practised via audiovisual recordings or role play in class. The students will learn how to react to Spanish speakers.

Compulsory co-requisites

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

no prerequisites

Syllabus of seminars

. introduction, greetings, stress 2. tener, pronunciation, question words 3. genders, articles, ser 4. personal pronouns, -ar verbs 5. plural, -er and –ir verbs 6. declinations, prepositions, irregular verbs 7. family members, numerals 0-1000 8. adjectives, comparison,structures with prepositions 9. possessive pronouns I., reflexive verbs 10. telling the time, mucho, bastante, demasiado 11. ir+inf., ser x estar 12. revision 13. test

Progress assessment

75% attendance , active participation at classes, fulfilment of given assignments and a credit unit in written form ( pass mark 50%).

Teaching methods and criteria

Teaching methods combine active participation in classes (conversation, role play, practising grammar and vocabulary,use of audiovisual means, and regular testing of previous knowledge) with homework - self-study.

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3, field BIT, 2nd year of study, Elective
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