Spanish 2

Recommended Prerequisites

Spanish 1.

Teaching Methods

Classes will have comprehensive thematic units. They will have a presentation, questions and practical activities. Students will then accomplish different tasks, in order to apply the contents they have learned. There will be also activities of learning by exploration, in order to encourage the student’s autonomy.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students are expected to have communication proficiency in listening, reading, writing and speaking. They should be able to understand and to speak or write according to their level, to describe and to tell past events and experiences; to talk about future plans and events. The course also provides students with metalinguistic tools of Spanish as a foreign / second language.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

     GRAMMAR:

Indicativo: Pret. más-que-perfecto, Futro imperfecto, Condicional

Subjunctivo: Presente

Imperativo

Prepositions and conjunctions

Verbal perífrases for aspect and obligation

Accents

OD and OI clitics; tonic pronouns; placement

Ser / estar / haber

LEXIKON

Expression of habits in the past

Expressions of cortesía

Means of transport, hotels and trips

Physical states, illnesses and medicine;

The house;

Time and space adverbials.

FUNCTIONAL CONTENTS

How to talk about present, past, future and probable events

How to give orders and suggestions

How to express preferences

How to express obligation

How to express agreement and disagreement

Doctor’s appointment

How to talk about and to describe the house

PHONETIC CONTENTS

Intonation of imperative positive and negative sentences

Diphtongues, three-tongues and hiatuses;

CULTURAL CONTENTS

Spanish geographical divisions; stereotypes

Spanish and Spanish-American cultural diversity.

Head Lecturer(s)

Susana Salvo Castro

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Periodic Assessment
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Project: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

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Martín Peris, Ernesto (1997): Gente; Difusión.

Moreno, Concha (2009), Temas de gramática – Nivel superior, 7ª Edición, SGEL S.A, Madrid.

Moreno, Concha (2007), Gramática – Básico, A1 Anaya S.A, Madrid.

Moreno, Concha et alii (2005) Avance curso de espanhol – nível básico;
nível básico-intermedio 4ª ed. SGEL, S.A., Madrid.

Real Academia de la Lengua Española y Asociación de Academias (2010) Nueva gramática de la
lengua española – Manual; Espasa Libros S.L.U., Madrid.

Serralde, B., Casarejos E. y López M. (2019). Vitamina A2. SGEL. Madrid.

AA.VV. (2006) Gran diccionario de uso del español actual. SGEL, S.A., Madrid.