Foreign Language II - Spanish

Subject: 2018/2019 - 2S

Programmes

Hours Effectively Taught

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRICULAR UNIT
Initial level of Spanish Language and Culture (A2).
This Curricular Unit conforms to the requirements of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The main objective of this UC is to teach students the necessary tools and concepts to be able to function in a work situation with a clear and precise language.

SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
In the contact sessions the teacher will focus in a practical and theoretical way on the following competences: listening comprehension, oral expression and interaction, written expression, acquisition of grammatical and lexical competence.

At the end of this curricular unit, the student should be able to:
Follow a conversation and understand the speech you are directed.
Write notes and / personal and professional letters simple.
Describe and compare in a simple way life conditions, professional and socio-cultural aspects.
To develop both the intercultural competence and the knowledge, skill and attitudes that enable it to communicate and overcome cultural limits.

Programme

I. Communicative functions:
Give and ask for information; express opinions, attitudes and knowledge; express preferences, desires and feelings; influence the interlocutor; socialize and structure the speech.

II. Grammar:
Continuation: continuar + gerund; personal pronouns with prepositions and as an OD/OI; adjectives and possessive pronouns; adjectives and indefinite pronouns; mucho; imperfecto tense; irregular forms of the gerund; the purpose: para que + subjunctive; personal pronouns: two pronouns as complements, enclitic forms with two pronouns; por y para; present of subjunctive; imperative, negative imperative; superlative; personal pronouns with imperative; adverbs of manner; conditional sentences; indefinido tense; pluperfect tense; use of past tenses; the obligation: haber de + infinitive; uses of ser and estar.

III. Lexical Contents:
Lexical on advertising; patronage; the food; marketing strategies; retribution: ways and means of payment; the banks; the CV; letters; careers.

IV. cultural content:
Introduction to socio-cultural and intercultural behavior of Spanish-speaking countries: Art and Culture in Latin America; gastronomy in Spain; Hispanic community in the US; the variety of Spanish language.

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 A2 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

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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.