| Code: | LTU1428 | Acronym: | LEIVE |
| Teaching Area: | Modern Languages |
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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF CURRICULAR UNIT
Threshold or Intermediate level of Spanish language (B1.2) addressed to the business world.
This Curricular Unit follows The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): Learning, Teaching, Assessment as a reference guideline.
OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
The main purpose of this Curricular Unit is to teach students the tools and concepts needed to manage themselves in different sectors of the Hispanic business world.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
In the contact sessions the teacher will focus, on practical and theoretical way, the following skills: listening comprehension and oral interaction, written expression, grammatical and lexical acquisition.
At the end of this curricular unit, the student should be able to
- Develop basic skills of comprehension and expression in Spanish.
- Search and manage information that enables continuous and independent learning.
- Reach B.1.2 CEFR level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
I.Comunicative Functions:
Activate previous knowledge. Express and justify own opinions. Express conditions and propose solutions. Compare and express preferences. Give instructions.
II. Grammar:
Conditional; perfect future; express probability; some uses of ¿por¿ and ¿para¿; imperfect subjunctive; compound tenses; correspondence of the times; Conditional sentences; the reported speech; passive / impersonal manner; use of ¿pero¿, ¿sino¿, ¿sino que¿; consecutive, causal and reduplicate sentences.
III. Lexical Content:
Leadership and business success; today's consumers; masters; entrepreneurship; new technologies in enterprises.
IV. Cultural Content:
Familiarize the student with professional, socio-cultural and intercultural Spanish-speaking countries behaviors. Topics: Blogs; soap operas; Latin artists; Distinguished men and women of Spain and Latin America.
The programmatic content combines active pedagogical practices of communication with systematic exercises to learn enough vocabulary and grammar to reach the level B1.2 of the CEFR.
| PROST, G. e NORIEGA FERNÁNDEZ, A.;Al Día. Curso Intermedio de español para los negocios. Libro del alumno, SGEL, 2010. ISBN: 978-84-9778-317-0 |
| PROST, G. e NORIEGA FERNÁNDEZ, A.;Al Día. Curso Intermedio de español para los negocios. Cuaderno de Ejercicios., SGEL, 2011. ISBN: 978-84-9778-318-7 |
| AGUIRRE BELTRÁN, B.;El Español por profesiones. Servicios Turísticos, SGEL, 2004. ISBN: 84-7143-481-4 |
| http://www.rae.es |
| http://www.cervantesvirtual.com |
| http://www.zonaele.com/ |
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.
Avaliação distribuída com exame final
| Description | Type | Time (hours) | Conclusion Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance (estimated) | Lessons | 30 | |
| Teste/Exame | 3 | ||
| Trabalho laboratorial ou de campo | 35 | ||
| Participação Presencial | 8 | ||
| Study | 31 | ||
| Total: | 107 |
Individual oral presentation (1): 35 %
Individual written tests (2): 65% (35%+30%)
Under the terms of the Degree Regulation:
Written exam: 100%
The student classified with 8 (eight) or 9 (nine) values in the written test will have access to an oral test.
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.