Spanish A2

Code:

CLESPA2

Acronym:

ESPA2

Instance: 2012/2013 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LVESP	22	Programme Course	1	-	5,5	-	120

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The purpose intended in this course is to allow the student to approach the hispanic culture and to acquire Spanish skills which may allow them, by the end of their education, to properly use the language in daily communication situations. He/she will be, consequently, capable of understanding isolated sentences and expressions frequently related to immediate priority areas, as well as communicating in situations that demand nothing more than a simple and direct information exchange about familiar affairs.

Program

Communication functions
• To greet and to say goodbye in a formal and informal way;
• To identify oneself: to say one’s nationality, origin, job, age...
• Self-presentation;
• To ask and to provide geographical information: to locate things and people;
• To describe objects and places;
• To describe people;
• To express possession;
• To describe usual actions and activities;
• To ask and to say the time;
• To express the frequency with which something is done;
• To express tastes and preferences;
• To express agreement and disagreement;
• To order something in a restaurant, a bar or a store;
• To ask about a product and its price;
• To ask plans and projects;
• To make suggestions;
• To accept or to decline a suggestion;
• To ask/provide instructions about places and directions: to organize the speech;
• To ask permission, to concede it and to deny it;
• To express obligation;
• To speak about completed actions in a present-related time;
• To describe or to narrate personal experiences or situations;
• To speak about the past;
• To tell someone about someone’s life;
• To place actions in the past;
• To relate actions in the past;
• To speak about events and historic facts;
• To describe places, people and things from the past;
• To speak about usual past actions;
• To describe or narrate;
• To express changes (en los......).

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course has been assembled in a fundamentally practical way, insisting predominantly on understanding and expression activities and on tasks which reflect the communication contexts closer to a Spanish-speaking country’s reality.
Diversified methodology, chosen taking into account the cognitive and age profile of the students and their education needs.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Observations

Continuous Evaluation:
Students shall accomplish small activities regarding knowledge application regularly.
Final Evaluation:
By the end of the course, students must accomplish a global evaluation test. The final evaluation to be assigned to the students who successfully complete the course is a 0 to 20 qualitative and quantitative scale score.