Spanish B2.1

Code:

LLC031

Acronym:

EB2.1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Spanish

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
E-learning page:	https://moodle.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	0	study plan	2	-	6	60,5	162
LA	0	Study plan	2	-	6	60,5	162
			3
LLC	0	Study plan	2	-	6	60,5	162
		study plan	2	-	6	60,5	162
			3
LRI	0	Study plan	2	-	6	60,5	162
			3

Teaching language

Spanish

Objectives

The main objective of the subject is to consolidate and expand the grammatical knowledge and notions acquired by the student in previous courses. To acquire a high level of understanding and oral and written expression, relating and using various linguistic registers. Also, to ensure that the student reflects on the language and learns to control their own learning process.

Similarly, they should orally express their own opinions on general and specific topics of a conversation and provide detailed information. In these interventions, they should use the resources typical of native speakers to play with implicit and explicit information. The student should be able to understand texts about explicitly formulated information, opinions, and subjective evaluations, as well as recognize implicit elements of the message: organization of information, humor, irony, cultural allusions. They should produce texts of a certain length, using the usual syntactic structures of the Spanish language. Likewise, they should demonstrate an acceptable knowledge of coherence and cohesion procedures in texts, according to different types of texts: correct use of the paragraph, textual organization, lexical-semantic elements, cultural competence, etc.

Learning outcomes and competences

At this level, the student will be able to:
- Understand the essentials of complex oral and written texts, even if they deal with abstract topics, are presented in various varieties of Spanish, or have a technical nature, especially if they deal with specialized areas of knowledge to which they have had access.
- Interact with all types of speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and naturalness, so that communication does not require effort from any interlocutor.
- Produce clear and detailed texts on various subjects, including those involving dialectical analysis, debate, or advocacy of a point of view.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Previous knowledge: B1 level (Threshold or intermediate), determined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Program

I. COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

To show agreement or disagreement at different lexical levels.

To express one's opinion, evaluate facts and situations.

To express chance and possibility.

To express condition.

Description of the character.

II. GRAMMAR:

Relative clauses.

Conditional sentences.

Subordinate clauses.

Uses of "Ser" and "Estar."

III. LEXICAL:

Word formation: derivation and composition.

Vocabulary related to personality description

Resources for arguing about current topics (economy, society, culture, politics, etc.).

Resources for writing tourist-related texts.

IV. TEXTS:

Reading and interpreting: comics on social criticism. Articles on current affairs topics. Texts in tourism.

Writing: Opinion and descriptive texts of a tourist nature.

Listening: News on the television, radio and interviews.

Speaking: conversations on everyday topics and current affairs analysis.

Mandatory literature

Concha Moreno; Temas de gramática nivel superior, SGEL
L. Gómez Torrego; Gramática didáctica del español, SM, 2002. ISBN: 9788467515497

Complementary Bibliography

VV.AA.; Abanico (nueva edición), Difusión. ISBN: 978-84-8443-686-7
VV.AA; Agencia ELE Avanzado, SGEL, 2013. ISBN: 978-84-9778-524-2
VV.AA; Aula Internacional 4, Difusión, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-15620-85-3
VV.AA.; Gramática en contexto, EDELSA. ISBN: 978-84-7711-716-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classrooms; tutorial sessions. The course is designed in an eminently practical way, relating the formal structures of the language with its communicative functions. Insisting mainly on comprehension and expression activities, and on participatory tasks that recreate communicative contexts as close to the reality that the student can face when they come into contact with a Spanish-speaking country.

Software

https://www.rtve.es/
https://cvc.cervantes.es/
http://www.elcastellano.org/
https://dle.rae.es/
https://www.fundeu.es/

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages > European languages > Romance languages

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Prova oral	50,00
Teste	35,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	101,50
Frequência das aulas	60,50
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

According to FLUP regulations.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation of this subject is distributed without a final exam and consists of the following components:

• Assessment of written competence: 1. Written expression work (30%) + 3. Written test (70%).

• Assessment of oral competence: 2. Oral expression work (30%) + 4. Oral test (70%).

The final grade calculation will be the sum of the scores obtained in each of the assessment tests.

However, it is mandatory to achieve a minimum grade (8.5 points) in each of the components (oral and written) in order to calculate the average and pass the subject.

Since there is no final exam, students who fail in the first call (equivalent to the Época normal), may take a recovery test (of the written part and/or the oral part) in the second call (coinciding with the Época de recurso).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Does not apply.

Internship work/project

Does not apply.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who have special status, according to Article 14, point 1 of the Evaluation Regulations, even if class attendance is not taken into account, must complete the assessment tasks stipulated for the course unit.

Classification improvement

- In the case of having passed the subject in Época normal, you will only be able to improve the grade in Época de recurso in one of the tests (written test No. 3 or oral test No. 4).
- If a student has failed the subject in Época normal, they can make up both written test No. 3 and oral test No. 4 in Época de recurso.
- In no case is there an option to recover the marks obtained in assessment works No. 1 and No. 2.

Observations

Consult Moodle for more detailed information.