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Course detail

Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students

Subjet code : FEKT-LJS2
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication
Academic year: 2011/2012
Open: Yes
Supervisor: PhDr. Marcela Borecká
Department: Departement of Foreign Languages
Study level: Master's
Study form: combined study
Language of instruction: Czech
Number of credits: 6
Completion: course-unit credit and examination
Year of study: 1
Semester: both
Duty: general knowledge

The study programmes with the given course

Objective of the course – aims of the course unit:
To develop language skills acquired in JS1.
Objective of the course – learning outcomes and competences:
Language skills and grammar in Spanish at a lower-intermediate level.
Prerequisites:
a completed JS1 course or equivalent knowledge is requested, i.e. U 1-9 from the textbook Fiesta 1
Course contents (annotation):
This course is a follow-up course to JS1.It develops communicative abilities,vocabulary and grammar,it offers listening with the use of more advanced audio- and video-courses.In the summer semester basic terminology in technical Spanish will be offered.Students will be lent original Spanish textbooks for work in class.
Teaching methods and criteria:
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
2 semester tests and an examination
Course curriculum:
Introduction and programme of the course
Revision of some points from JS1
Plans,future tenses
Date,ordinal numbers
How long...?Fractions and decimal fractions
Articles used with names of days,irregular verbs,exclamations
Weather,comparison of adjectives
In a café,the verbs:decir,traer
My holidays,past imperfect tense
Cinema,present conditional,dependent pronouns
Smoking,how to introduce oneself,prohibitions,advice
Revision
Semester test
Revision of the winter semester,conversation
Shopping,interrogative and relative pronouns,adverbs
Travelling,past simple tense,conjunctions e,u
Money exchange,past simple of irregular verbs
Arrival,technical text 1
Accomodation,prepositional structures
Post office,gerund
Progressive tenses,technical text 2
La América Latina,past participle,haber,compound infinitive
Letter Writing,present perfect tense,
Passive voice,technical text 3
Revision
Semester test
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences:
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
Recommended reading:
Králová - Fiesta!

Type of course unit:
Language exercise: 26 hours, optionally
Teacher: PhDr. Marcela Borecká