Spanish B2.1

Code:

LLC031

Acronym:

EB2.1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Spanish

Instance: 2021/2022 - 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	CL - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
LA	33	LA - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LLC	34	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LRI	24	LRI - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Spanish

Objectives

The aim of this module is to increase and expand the knowledge and grammatical concepts learned in previous years. You should acquire a higher level of comprehension, oral and writing skills, using the language in different contexts and situations . Students study the language itself and are able to have control of their own learning process.

During this module you should acquire the skills to express yourself fluently about general and also specific topics by using local vocabulary cultural and references. Students must be able to understand opinions and subjective and explicit information, recognizing the elements of the message: organization of information, humor, irony and cultural references. You will produce texts of some length, using the syntactic structures of the Spanish language. During this module you should also acquire a good knowledge of textual coherence and cohesion according to the different types of texts: paragraphing, a good use of textual organization and elements of cultural competence at its lexical and semantic levels, etc. 

Learning outcomes and competences

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.

Description of the character.

II. GRAMMAR:

Relative and conditional sentences.

Noun clause.

Uses of Indicative / Subjunctive.

Uses of "Ser" and "Estar".

Personal pronouns.

Phrasal verbs.

III. LEXICAL:

Words: composition and origin.

Vocabulary related to a work enviroment.

Resources and sources on current issues (economy, society, culture, politics, etc.).

polysemic words.

How to write texts in the tourism area.

IV. TEXTS:

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

Writing: Letters to a press Editor. Texts in tourism.

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
VV.AA.; Gramática en contexto, EDELSA. ISBN: 978-84-7711-716-2

Complementary Bibliography

L. Gómez Torrego; Gramática didáctica del español, SM, 2002. ISBN: 9788467515497
VV.AA.; prisma de ejercicios B2, Edinumen, 2007. ISBN: 84-95986-50-7
Virgilio Borobio, Ramón Palencia; Ele Actual, B2, SM, 2012. ISBN: 978-84-675-4901-0
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.; Abanico (nueva edición), Difusión. ISBN: 978-84-8443-686-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classrooms; 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 country or with Spanish-speaking natives.

Software

https://www.rtve.es/
http://clave.smdiccionarios.com/app.php
https://cvc.cervantes.es/
http://www.elcastellano.org/
http://www.zonaele.com/
https://dle.rae.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	100,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho escrito	8,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the criteria in force at FLUP.

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: written expression work (30%) + written test (70%).

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

The calculation of the final grade will be the average achieved by dividing the marks obtained in each of the components: oral and written.

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

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, ...)

Does not apply.

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 tests 1 and 2.