Course detail

Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students

FEKT-NJS2Acad. year: 2013/2014

This course is a follow-up course to XJS1.The students will develop communicative abilities,vocabulary and grammar, they will improve their listening with the use of more advanced audio- and video-courses .In the summer semester basic terminology in technical Spanish will be studied.Short semi-technical texts in Spanish will be analysed.This is a two semestre course.

Language of instruction

English

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

Language skills and grammar in Spanish at a lower-intermediate level.

Prerequisites

a completed JS1 course or equivalent knowledge

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

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 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 I.
12.Revision
13.Semestre test

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.Condicional II.
12. Revision
13. Semestre test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The students will develop their Spanish language skills acquired in XJS1 to a higher level..

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, díl 1 i 2, Edelsa, Madrid, Espana
Králová + kol. Fiesta 1
Videokursy Este país a Apartamento para dos

Type of course unit

Language exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Syllabus

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

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students

Type of course unit