Course details
Spanish for Beginners 2/2
JS2 Acad. year 2018/2019 Summer semester 3 credits
This 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. It is a two-semester course and it is a following part of the successful JS1/1-WS.
Guarantor
Course coordinator
Language of instruction
Completion
Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
Assessment points
- 100 pts final exam (written part)
Department
Instructor
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Elementary Spanish conversation, basic Spanish grammar.
Learning objectives
Elementary Spanish.
Why is the course taught
The course enables students to acquire professional vocabulary, language functions and language skills necessary for active participation in seminars, lectures and other activities in the information and communication technology sector.
Compulsory prerequisites
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Successful passing the course JS1/1-WS.
Syllabus of numerical exercises
- Programme of the course, introduction to the language
- Pronunciation, how to thank and introduce oneself
- Stress, gender and articles
- What/who is it?, personal pronouns
- Profession, plural, verbs ending -ar
- Nationality, prepositions, declension, to be
- Intonation, verbs ending -er,-ir and irregular verbs
- Family and age, female forms of nouns
- Numbers 1 - 10, irreg. verb venir, revision test
- Friends, descriptions, adjectives
- Possession, obligation, quantification, possessive pronouns
- Revision
- Autumn semester test written
- Revision of lessons 1 - 7
- Telephoning, ser vs. estar, negative expressions
- Mexico, demonstrative pronouns
- Obligation and necessity, hay que x tener que
- Transport, irregular verbs, revision test
- Imperative, polite asking for things
- Telling the time, numbers 11 - 30
- Basic technical terminology, irregular verbs
- Daily routine, reflexive pronouns
- Basic technical terminology, infinitive structures
- Infinitive of purpose, numerals, currencies, weights and measures
- Revision
- Spring semester test written
Progress assessment
Revision tests.
Exam prerequisites:
Semester tests - min. score 10 points (20 points max.).
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.
Controlled instruction
Final examination 30 points min./60 points max.
Exam prerequisites
Semester tests - min. score 10 points (20 points max.).
Course inclusion in study plans