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
Department
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.
Type of course unit
Fundamentals seminar
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Programme of the course, introduction to the language
- Pronunciation, how to thank and introduce oneself
- Stress, gender and articles
- What/who is it?, personal pronouns
- Profession, plural, verbs ending -ar
- Nationality, prepositions, declension, to be
- Intonation, verbs ending -er,-ir and irregular verbs
- Family and age, female forms of nouns
- Numbers 1 - 10, irreg. verb venir, revision test
- Friends, descriptions, adjectives
- Possession, obligation, quantification, possessive pronouns
- Revision
- Autumn semester test written
- Revision of lessons 1 - 7
- Telephoning, ser vs. estar, negative expressions
- Mexico, demonstrative pronouns
- Obligation and necessity, hay que x tener que
- Transport, irregular verbs, revision test
- Imperative, polite asking for things
- Telling the time, numbers 11 - 30
- Basic technical terminology, irregular verbs
- Daily routine, reflexive pronouns
- Basic technical terminology, infinitive structures
- Infinitive of purpose, numerals, currencies, weights and measures
- Revision
- Spring semester test is written