Foreign Language I - Spanish

Subject: 2018/2019 - 1S

Programmes

Hours Effectively Taught

Teaching Language

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRICULAR UNIT

Initial level of Spanish for professional purposes. (A1).
This Curricular Unit follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The main objective of this Curricular Unit is to teach students the tools and concepts needed to express themselves with a clear and precise language in a work situation.

SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
In the contact sessions the teacher will focus the following skills: listening comprehension, oral interaction, written expression, grammatical and lexical acquisition.
At the end of this Curricular Unit, the student should be able to:
- Produce simple sentences about their interests, professional and everyday life.
- Ask and answer questions about his own or others and about their needs in a work environment.
- Develop both intercultural competence and linguistic knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable the student to communicate and overcome cultural boundaries.

Programme

I. Communicative functions: Formal and informal greetings. Give and ask for personal information: nationality, origin, age, etc. Introduce oneself. Resources of communication control. Ask and tell the time. Expressing habitual actions. Describe professional activities. Describe objects: color, shape, size, etc. Express how often we do things. Talking about family. Talking about actions in progress. Describe a person: physique and character. Compare people or things. Describe relationships. Express preferences. Talk about hobbies. Show agreement or disagreement. Buy a product. Ask for prices, quantities and qualities.

II. Grammar: Personal pronouns (subject). Verbs in the present tense: ser, estar, tener, ir. The alphabet. Relationship between graphs and phonemes. Concordance gender and number. Defined and undefined articles. Numerals. Reflexive verbs. Possessive adjectives. Adverbs of place. Hay. Demonstratives. Interrogatives. Perfect tense. The negation. Express duration. Frequency expressions. Verbal circumlocution: estar + gerundio, ir + a + infinitive, hay+que. Simultaneity al + infinitive. Pero/pero que. The comparison. Letters: formal, informal. Verbo ¿gustar¿. Business and leisure activities. Opinions about work. Remuneration and taxes. The workday. A new technology: Wi-Fi. Negotiation. Specific hospitality lexicon.

IV. Cultural Contents: Introduction to the knowledge and professional, socio-cultural and intercultural behavior of Spanish-speaking countries.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

The programmatic content combines active pedagogical practices of communication with systematic exercises to learn enough vocabulary and grammar to reach the level A1 of the CEFR.

Main literature

Supplementary Bibliography

Learning Methods

We use the Al Día reference manual, SGEL, as a method of learning Spanish for professional purposes, because it has a communicative approach that favors teamwork, the use of multimedia tools and compliance with CEFR directives.

Assessment Components

Avaliação distribuída com exame final

Assessment Components

Continuous Assessment

Final Exam

Written exam: 100%

The student classified with 8 (eight) or 9 (nine) values in the written test will have access to an oral test.

Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes

The communicative approach and use of multimedia tools enhances and favors the acquisition of the required competences in the level to be achieved in this curricular unit by simulating and reproducing the situations in which the new user of the language will be in his professional and personal life.