Course details
Spanish for Beginners 1/2
JS1 Acad. year 2007/2008 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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Language of instruction
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
Department
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
Item has no outline.
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.
Controlled instruction
Revision tests.