Spanish B1.1
Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Espanhol
Objectives
According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, at this level students should be able to:
- understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
- deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is
spoken.
- produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
- describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
I. Listening:
Students will be able to understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. and other current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.
II. Reading comprehension:
Students should be able to understand articles and reports in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints, although they need to read them more than once. Moreover, students will be aware of different types of texts (descriptive, narrative texts, etc.) and different ways to relate and describe.
III. Spoken interaction:
They should be able to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible.
IV. Spoken production:
Students will be able to connect phrases in order to describe experiences and events, beliefs, dreams, hopes and ambitions. They will be able to give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans and express opinion on themes arising from texts and class discussions. They should be able to narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or film and describe different reactions, with lexical limitations.
V. Writing:
Students should be able to write clear, detailed texts and essays on a wide range of subjects related to their interests, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view or with other specific aims, in a simple way. Moreover, they will be able to write formal and informal letters.
Program
I. Functional contents:
Talking about present and past habits and daily routine.
Talking about past experiences, describing feelings and reactions.
Tell a plot of a book, film.
Talking about compulsory and forbidden actions / activities.
Giving advice.
Describing hopes and ambitions.
Making a complaint and talking about needs.
Referring to the future: promises and predictions.
Expressing opinion.
Expressing if conditional clauses.
Give an opinion about different situations.
Report other people messages.
II.Grammar:
Revision of present tense. Discourse markers.
Revision of past tenses: imperfecto, indefinido (simple past) and pretérito perfecto (present perfect). Discourse markers.
Pretérito pluscuamperfecto (past perfect).
Imperative forms.
Future tense. Conditional tense. Discourse markers.
Present tense-Subjunctive mood.
Connective words (aunque, como, sino, porque...)
Article “lo”.
Diacritical accent.
Placement of object pronouns.
III. Vocabulary:
Vocabulary related to different situations and topics arising from texts and class discussion, for example, vocabulary related to feelings, superstitions and cinema. False friends between Spanish and Portuguese.
IV. Cultural component:
Being aware of sociocultural and intercultural knowledge and behaviour in the different Spanish- speaking countries.
Mandatory literature
Equipo Prisma; Prisma: progresa. Nivel 1, Edi Numen, 2006
AA. VV; Aula Internacional 3, Difusión, 2007
Gabriel García Márquez; Doce cuentos peregrinos, Debolsillo, 2003
Complementary Bibliography
Ramón Sarmiento; Gramática progresiva de español para extranjeros, SGEL, 1999
HERMOSO, A. González; CUENOT, J. R.; ALFARO, M. Sánchez; Gramática de español lengua extranjera. Normas. Recursos para la comunicación, Edelsa
Leonardo Gómez Torrego; Gramática didáctica del español, SM, 2000
Teaching methods and learning activities
Theoretical / practical; personal tutorials.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
Weight (%) |
End date |
Attendance (estimated) |
Participação presencial |
56,00 |
|
|
|
Trabalho escrito |
35,00 |
|
2013-02-09 |
|
Exame |
4,00 |
|
2013-02-09 |
|
Total: |
- |
0,00 |
|
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
End date |
|
Estudo autónomo |
67 |
2013-02-09 |
|
Total: |
67,00 |
|
Eligibility for exams
Students are required to attend 75 % of classes and a record is kept of attendance, with exceptions according to FLUP regulations.
Calculation formula of final grade
Optional classwork: 20% (maximum: 4 points out of 20). Depending on the assessment chosen by the students. More information can be found in the section "Documentos".
Written and oral test: 80% (maximum: 16 points out of 20)
Examinations or Special Assignments
Students must read a book: "Doce cuentos peregrinos" de Gabriel García Márquez (Edición Debolsillo, 2003). The oral test will be based on comments and questions about the reading.
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
According to FLUP regulations.
Classification improvement
According to FLUP regulations.