Code: | LLC029 | Acronym: | EB1.1 |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Spanish |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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CL | 9 | CL - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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LA | 29 | LA - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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LLC | 33 | LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies) | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 | ||
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LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages) | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 | ||
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LRI | 48 | LRI - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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Talking about present and past habits, daily routine and past experiences. Summarizing a story. Referring to the future: promises, predictions, etc. Giving advice. Expressing conditional clauses and hope. Evaluating situations and movies. Giving and arguing opinions.
Revision of past tenses: imperfecto, indefinido (simple past) and pretérito perfecto (present perfect). Pretérito pluscuamperfecto (past perfect). Imperative form. Future tense. Conditional tense. Present tense in the subjunctive mood. Lo (article vs. pronoun). Rules of accentuation. Discourse markers (aunque, como, porque, sin embargo, etc.). Placement of object pronouns.
The main goal of this subject is that students achieve the objectives established for this level by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, in other words, they have to be able to understand the main ideas of clear and standardised-language texts (...), at professional, learning or leisure contexts; know how to interact in most of the situations which can come up during a trip to places where the target language is used; write simple and coherent texts and describe experiences, events, wishes and ambitions, as well as justify briefly their opinions or their plans.
To achieve this main goal, it is essential to combine theory and practice simultaneously. This will make possible to students achieve the learning objectives of this subject and use them during assessment activities. Therefore, practice and evaluation focus on various but complementary aspects, studied during the semester.
In class, all communicative language processes are practised (oral and written production, oral and written interaction, oral and reading comprehension and mediation), but the production processes will be stressed because students usually show more difficulties in them.
As a result, in class, homework or evaluation tests, these activities will play an important role in order to achieve: spontaneous participations of the students, without previous preparation, in conversations about personal interest topics and their specialisation (abstract and cultural topics such as movies, books and music); narrations of events and descriptions of situations (presenting arguments and reasonings), or writing texts with a specific purpose as informal letters and emails.
The main text types used to achieve these goals are: biografies, stories in the past, movie reviews and argumentative texts about different topics studied in class.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Prova oral | 50,00 |
Teste | 50,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 108,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 54,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
The type of assessment is distributed evaluation without final exam and the final mark will be calculated based on the following components of assessment: writing and speaking (50%-50%).
Writing: two tests which will be done with all the students together. The first test will take place in the middle of the semester and the second at the end of the semester. The first test will be worth 8 and the second 12. To be assessed in the speaking part, students need to get minimum 9/20 considering the sum of both written tests.
Speaking: a final paired speaking test will take place in June, after classes have finished. In order to pass this curricular unit, students must obtain the minimum mark of 9/20 in the speaking part. There is an optional oral interaction activity during classes (4/20, more information in the section "Documentos" and on Moodle).
Those students who do not obtain the minimum mark to pass the curricular unit will have the opportunity to attend a written test and a speaking test (50%-50%) at the end of the course.Only those students who have passed the subject in former years have the opportunity to improve (“melhoria”) the oral or writing marks, by attending the writing tests during the semester or a final written test at the end of the course and, in both cases, a speaking test at the end of the semester.
Students must read a book, because the oral test will be based on comments and questions about the reading. Students will be informed about the reading at the beginning of the semester.
According to FLUP regulations.
Only those students who have passed the subject in former years have the opportunity to improve (“melhoria”) the oral or writing marks, by attending the writing tests during the semester or a final written test at the end of the course and, in both cases, a speaking test at the end of the semester.
More information about assessment can be found in the document "Evaluación: tipos y criterios" in the section "Documentos" and on Moodle.