Course details
Spanish for Beginners 1/2
JS1 Acad. year 2013/2014 Winter semester 3 credits
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.
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
 
Department
Instructor
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Elementary Spanish conversation, basic Spanish grammar.
Learning objectives
Elementary Spanish.
Compulsory co-requisites
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No requirements.
Syllabus of seminars
- Programme of the course, introduction to the language
 - Pronunciation, how to thank and introduce oneself
 - Stress, gender and articles
 - What/who is it?, personal pronouns
 - Profession, plural, verbs ending -ar
 - Nationality, prepositions, declension, to be
 - Intonation, verbs ending -er,-ir and irregular verbs
 - Family and age, female forms of nouns
 - Numbers 1 - 10, irreg. verb venir, revision test
 - Friends, descriptions, adjectives
 - Possession, obligation, quantification, possessive pronouns
 - Revision
 - Autumn semester test written
 - Revision of lessons 1 - 7
 - Telephoning, ser vs. estar, negative expressions
 - Mexico, demonstrative pronouns
 - Obligation and necessity, hay que x tener que
 - Transport, irregular verbs, revision test
 - Imperative, polite asking for things
 - Telling the time, numbers 11 - 30
 - Basic technical terminology, irregular verbs
 - Daily routine, reflexive pronouns
 - Basic technical terminology, infinitive structures
 - Infinitive of purpose, numerals, currencies, weights and measures
 - Revision
 - Spring semester test written
 
Syllabus of numerical exercises
- Programme of the course, introduction to the language
 - Pronunciation, how to thank and introduce oneself
 - Stress, gender and articles
 - What/who is it?, personal pronouns
 - Profession, plural, verbs ending -ar
 - Nationality, prepositions, declension, to be
 - Intonation, verbs ending -er,-ir and irregular verbs
 - Family and age, female forms of nouns
 - Numbers 1 - 10, irreg. verb venir, revision test
 - Friends, descriptions, adjectives
 - Possession, obligation, quantification, possessive pronouns
 - Revision
 - Autumn semester test written
 - Revision of lessons 1 - 7
 - Telephoning, ser vs. estar, negative expressions
 - Mexico, demonstrative pronouns
 - Obligation and necessity, hay que x tener que
 - Transport, irregular verbs, revision test
 - Imperative, polite asking for things
 - Telling the time, numbers 11 - 30
 - Basic technical terminology, irregular verbs
 - Daily routine, reflexive pronouns
 - Basic technical terminology, infinitive structures
 - Infinitive of purpose, numerals, currencies, weights and measures
 - Revision
 - Spring semester test written
 
Progress assessment
Semester tests.
Teaching methods and criteria
The course uses teaching methods in form of Exercise - 2 teaching hours per week.
Controlled instruction
Revision tests.
Course inclusion in study plans