Course detail

Spanish Upper-Intermediate

FAST-BYS4Acad. year: 2024/2025

This course focuses on the following: Describing cities and live in them, praising and highlighting something, expressing indifference or anger. Talking about habits and vices, detailed description of people. Expressing opinion in public (internet forum). For expressing these ideas the student uses prepositional phrases, relative and time clauses. Clauses of cause and effect: Vocabulary is widened in the field of safety in general, university life, personality features and health.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Daniel Rodriguez

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Entry knowledge

Students should have knowledge that corresponds to the level of the previous course BYS32.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

The aim of this course is to teach the Spanish language and the basic communicative skills that are necessary to achieve the level B1 inferior.
The student will be able to understand slightly sophisticated texts and listenings, will be able to present information from spoken and written sources, will be able to express themselves spontaneously and effectively for social, study and working purposes, will achieve the target level A2 higher accrding to the CEFR

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

CASTRO VIUDEZ, Francisca, Teresa BENÍTEZ RUBIO, Ignacio RODERO a Carmen SARDINERO FRANCO. Nuevo español en marcha 3: Libro del alumno: curso de español como lengua extranjera. Madrid: SGEL, 2016. ISBN 9788497787406.
CASTRO VIUDEZ, Francisca, Teresa BENÍTEZ RUBIO, Ignacio RODERO a Carmen SARDINERO FRANCO. Nuevo español en marcha 3: Cuaderno de ejercicios: curso de español como lengua extranjera. Madrid: SGEL, 2016. ISBN 9788497787796.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Daniel Rodriguez

Syllabus

All Units (named Unidad) are from Nuevo Ven 3 1 Week – Unidad 1 - Talking about health. Expressing duties personal and impersonal manner. Expressing opinion. Paraphrasing when expressing necessity. Verb with prepositions. Medical environment. Health and society. 2 Week – Unidad 1 - Evaluation. Giving advice and commands. Shopping in a market. Comparative phrases and superlatives. Verbs expressing evaluation. Health. Spanish markets. 3 Week – Unidad 2 - Talking about city life. Describing a city. Relative clauses. The use of Como. Life in the city. Describing personality. Hispanic community in the U.S.A. 4 Week – Unidad 2 - Describing character I. Liasons. Adverbs of frequency. Everyday life in Spain and U.S.A. 5 Week – Unidad 3 – Speaking about University life. Applying for information. Infinitive and perfect infinitive. Gerund and Gerund perfect. Professions. University life in Spain. 6 Week – Unidad 3 – Localize events in the time line. Correcting information. Time clauses. Liasons II. Studying at university. Professions on demand. 7 Week – Unidad 4 – Talking about new technologies and customs. Talking about habits and their result. Prepositions and pronouns. Relative pronouns. Psychological profile. The use of mobile phones. Internet as a source of education. 8 Week – Unidad 4 – Psychological profile. Relative pronouns with prepositions. Modern habits. Habits and vices. 9 Week – Unidad 5 – Denouncing. Expressing opinion and argumentation. Clauses of cause. Clauses of consecuence. The use of the future. Justice. Justice in Spain. 10 Week – Unidad 5 – Taking part in internet forum. Expressing disagreement. Regretting past events: tener que/deber. Road safety. Driving licence in Spain. 11 Week – Revision of topics 12 Week – Conversation on topics 13 Week - Credits