Course detail

Spanish for Beginners

FEKT-XJS1Acad. year: 2013/2014

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 class.It is a two-semester course and can be followed by the course JS2.

Language of instruction

Czech

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

The student will get knowledge of basic Spanish grammar, he/she will be able to use basic vocabulary and communicate in Spanish in the past, present and future in everyday life.
The student will be able to understand simple written texts with use of dictionary.He/she will be able to react adequately to Spanish phrases.All these skills will be achieved through audio-visual programmes and role play in class.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

75% attendance and active participation at classes, fulfilment of given assignments.
Two semester tests ( one after the winter semestre, another after the summer semestre) form 40% of the course evaluation showing how students managed to use the learnt vocabulary, grammar and use of Spanish structures, each test is worth 20 points maximum and 10 points minimum.
The final examination has two parts:
- reading with tasks - evaluates and asseses the abilities to work with a written text, abilities to analyze, synthetize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the text The reading of two short Spanish texts with use of dictionaries is worth 30 points maximum and 15 points minimum
- listening with tasks- evaluates and asseses the abilities to understand spoken Spanish, abilities to analyze, synthetize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the listening (30 points maximum and 15 points minimum)

Course curriculum

Winter semester
1.introduction, greetings, stress
2.pronunciation, tener, 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.adjectivesstructures with prepositions
9.possessive pronouns I., reflexive verbs
10.telling the time, mucho, bastante, demasiado,
11.ir+inf., ser x estar
12.revision
13.semester test

Summer semester
1.revision
2.demonstrative pronouns,present perfect
3.imperative I,months, more irregular verbs
4.quantifiers, more numerals, object
5.imperative II, infinitive structures, more pronouns
6.weights and measures, more numerals
7.future,adverbs of manner
8.comparison, superlative
9.personal pronouns, conditional
10.more irregular verbs, every, all
11.past simple, two negatives
12.revision
13.semester test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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, when travelling 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.

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 1, Edelsa, S.A., Madrid, Espana
Králová + kol.: Fiesta 1
videokursy Apartamento para dos, Este país

Type of course unit

Language exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Syllabus

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Spanish for Beginners

Type of course unit