Course detail

Spanish for Beginners 1/2

FIT-JS1Acad. year: 2019/2020

This communicative course - Spanish for Beginners - will offer to practice pronunciation, basic grammar, conversation in everyday situations, reading and listening. Original Spanish textbooks, audio and video courses will be used in classes. It is a two-semester course and it can be followed by the course JS1/2-SS.

Supervisor

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Elementary Spanish conversation, basic Spanish grammar.

Prerequisites

No requirements.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Recommended or required reading

Videokursy Este País, Viaje al Espanol
Králová+kol.: Fiesta 1, neueva edición, vyd. Fraus, 2010

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Revision tests.
Exam prerequisites:
Semester tests - min. score 10 points (20 points max.).

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Elementary Spanish.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BIT Bachelor's, 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Marcela Borecká

Syllabus


  1. Programme of the course, introduction to the language
  2. Pronunciation, how to thank and introduce oneself
  3. Stress, gender and articles
  4. What/who is it?, personal pronouns
  5. Profession, plural, verbs ending -ar
  6. Nationality, prepositions, declension, to be
  7. Intonation, verbs ending -er,-ir and irregular verbs
  8. Family and age, female forms of nouns
  9. Numbers 1 - 10, irreg. verb venir, revision test
  10. Friends, descriptions, adjectives
  11. Possession, obligation, quantification, possessive pronouns
  12. Revision
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Revision of lessons 1 - 7
  15. Telephoning, ser vs. estar, negative expressions
  16. Mexico, demonstrative pronouns
  17. Obligation and necessity, hay que x tener que
  18. Transport, irregular verbs, revision test
  19. Imperative, polite asking for things
  20. Telling the time, numbers 11 - 30
  21. Basic technical terminology, irregular verbs
  22. Daily routine, reflexive pronouns
  23. Basic technical terminology, infinitive structures
  24. Infinitive of purpose, numerals, currencies, weights and measures
  25. Revision
  26. Spring semester test is written