Course detail
Spanish for Beginners 1/2
FIT-JS1Acad. year: 2020/2021
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
Prokopová, L.: Španělština pro samouky, LEDA
Coll.: VEN 1, Edelsa, S.A., Madrid, Espana
Videokursy Este País, Viaje al Espanol
Králová+kol.: Fiesta 1, neueva edición, vyd. Fraus, 2010
Prokopová, L.: Španělština pro samouky, LEDA. (in Czech)
Coll.: VEN 1, Edelsa, S.A., Madrid, Espana. (in Spain)
Videokursy Este País, Viaje al Espanol. (in Spain)
Králová+kol.: Fiesta 1, neueva edición, vyd. Fraus, 2010. (in Spain)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
e-learning
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Revision tests.
Exam prerequisites:
Semester tests - min. score 10 points (20 points max.) in the distance form.
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