Course detail

Spanish for Beginners 1/2

FIT-JS1Acad. year: 2014/2015

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

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Elementary Spanish conversation, basic Spanish grammar.

Prerequisites

No requirements.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Semester tests.

Course curriculum

    Syllabus of numerical exercises:
    1. Programme of the course, introduction to the language
    2. Pronunciation, how to thank and introduce oneself
    3. Stress, gender and articles
    4. What/who is it?, personal pronouns
    5. Profession, plural, verbs ending -ar
    6. Nationality, prepositions, declension, to be
    7. Intonation, verbs ending -er,-ir and irregular verbs
    8. Family and age, female forms of nouns
    9. Numbers 1 - 10, irreg. verb venir, revision test
    10. Friends, descriptions, adjectives
    11. Possession, obligation, quantification, possessive pronouns
    12. Revision
    13. Autumn semester test written
    14. Revision of lessons 1 - 7
    15. Telephoning, ser vs. estar, negative expressions
    16. Mexico, demonstrative pronouns
    17. Obligation and necessity, hay que x tener que
    18. Transport, irregular verbs, revision test
    19. Imperative, polite asking for things
    20. Telling the time, numbers 11 - 30
    21. Basic technical terminology, irregular verbs
    22. Daily routine, reflexive pronouns
    23. Basic technical terminology, infinitive structures
    24. Infinitive of purpose, numerals, currencies, weights and measures
    25. Revision
    26. Spring semester test written

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Elementary Spanish.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Revision tests.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Marcela Borecká