Course details
Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students 2/2
JSmp2 Acad. year 2009/2010 Summer semester 3 credits
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.
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Language skills and grammar in Spanish at a lower-intermediate level.
Learning objectives
To develop language skills acquired in JS1.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Successful passing the course JS2/1.
Study literature
- Podle pokynů učitele.
Fundamental literature
- Prokopová, L.: Španělština pro samouky, LEDA
- Kolektiv: VEN 1, Edelsa, S.A., Madrid, Espana
- Videokursy Este País, Viaje al Espanol
Syllabus of seminars
Summer semestre 1. Revision of winter semestre 2. More about articles, interrogative and relative pronouns 3. Passive 4. Periphrases II., technical text No.1 5. Subjuntive I. 6. Subjuntive II., technical text No. 2 7. Ir + gerund structure 8. Past simple I. 9. Past simple II., technical text No. 3 10. Infinitive structures 11. – 12. Revision 13. Semestre test
Syllabus of numerical exercises
- 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
- Autumn semester test written
- Revision of the autumn/winter semester, conversation
- Shopping,i nterrogative 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
- Spring semester test written
Progress assessment
A semester test and a final exam.
Teaching methods and criteria
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
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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.
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