Course details
Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students 1/2
JSmp1 Acad. year 2009/2010 Winter 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
Department
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
A completed course for beginners or equivalent knowledge is requested, i.e. U 1-9 from the textbook Fiesta 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
Winter semestre 1. Introduction, programme of the course 2. Revision of XJS1 3. Future simple, reflexive passive 4. Time expressions, ordinal numbers 5. Real conditional, decimals, fractions 6. Imperfectum 7. Gerund, negative expressions 8. Past perfect 9. Sequence of tenses, reported speech 10. Periphrases I., volver + infinitive 11. Conditional 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
- 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
Progress assessment
Semester tests and a final exam in summer.
Teaching methods and criteria
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
Controlled instruction
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.
Course inclusion in study plans