Spanish 1

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The course will use theoretical and practical activities that will allow students to memorise and to develop the syllabus’s contents: speaking, writing (composition themes), reading comprehension (reading of one compulsory book), listening comprehension. Methodologies will include:

- Presentation by the teacher

- Contrastive analysis of practical examples

- Research and presentation by the students

- Task resolution.

Learning Outcomes

Study of the morpho-syntactic components, phonetic, lexical and functional Spanish for foreigners, a basic level of language. Study of comprehension and written expression. Study of oral comprehension and expression. Place the student in contact with actual linguistic situations. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Articles, nouns and adjectives

Prepositions and conjunctions

Present Indicative 

Past Perfect Indicative 

Indefinite indicative

Imperfect indicative

Verbs gustar, encantar, preferir e molestar

Gerund and participle

Pronouns and adjectives

Verbal periphrases

Muy/mucho

Personal information

Days of the week, months and seasons

Numbers

Time

Countries, capitals and names of places

Jobs

The family

The human body, physical and psychological description

Colors

Clothes and accessories

Marking space and time

También/tampoco/a mí sí/a mí no/bastante/poco/nada/nadie

To greet and to say goodbye

To present oneself.

To describe objects and persons

To express likes and dislikes

To speak about the present and the past

Formal and informal aspects of dialogue

Vocal and consonantic system

Intonation in declarative, affirmative, exclamative and interrogative sentences

Orthography rules

Spanish language countries

Spanish linguistic diversity  

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Patrícia Rossi Jiménez

Assessment Methods

Periodic Assessment
Other: 10.0%
Mini Tests: 20.0%
Frequency: 70.0%

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Alonso et al. (2011). Gramática básica del estudiante de español. Niveles A1-A2-B1. Madrid: Difusión.

Alonso Zarza, A. & Fernández Alarcón, F. (2011). Las preposiciones. Madrid: Edinumen.

Álvarez Martínez et al. (2010). Curso intensivo A2. Madrid: Anaya.

Andión Herrero, A. et al. (2018). Actividades para el MCER A1. Madrid: En Clave ELE.

Conejo, E.  &  Tonnelier, B. (2018). Cuadernos de gramática española A1. Barcelona: Difusión.

Fernández rodríguez, L. (2017). Compresión escrita (A1-A2). Madrid: En clave ELE.

Frunz Giménez, J. et al. (2018). Actividades para el MCER A2. Madrid: En Clave ELE.

García Muñoz, R. et al. (2018). Expresión oral (A1-A2). Madrid: En clave ELE.

Gil Fernández, J. (2007). Fonética para profesores de español: de la teoría a la práctica. Madrid: Arco/Libros.

Pérez-Andújar, M. (2017). Comprensión oral (A1-A2). Madrid: En clave ELE.

Real Academia Española & Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2009). Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa.