Spanish 1 (3cr)

Objective

Students know the basic of Spanish. They comprehend and know how to use the basic vocabulary and structures in oral communication and writing.The students will know how to:
Manage with certain everyday communication situation
Describe their environment and express their opinions
Tell about themselves and their family.
Tell about their home and home town and country

Content

Own presentation
Introducing home town and country
The grammar of the course is focused on conjugation and use of the most common Spanish verbs use of determinate and indeterminate article.
Oral and written learning tasks, text comprehension exercises
Spanish culture

Qualifications

No previous studies are required.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Speaking
Level 1- Students can cope with some everyday situations. They have some difficult with pronunciation.
Level 3- Students can manage independently in everyday talking situations. Pronunciation faults do not disturb understanding. The pronunciation is mainly understandable.
Level 5- The student expresses her/ himself actively, independently and intelligibly in everyday conversation situations. The pronunciation is in close to Spanish language pronunciation.
Listening
Level 1- Student understands little or slightly a slow and clear spoken language.
Level 3 - The student understands the main parts of slow and clearly spoken language.
Level 5- The student understand at normal tempo speech.
Text understanding
Level 1- The student understand the themes of the text and simple expressions.
Level 3- The student understands the main contents of text.
Level 5- The student understands all content of text.
Writing
Level 1- The student can write a short and simple text but mistakes disturb understanding.
Level 3- The student can write comprehensible text , but does some mistakes.
Level 5- The student can write comprehensible text with some small mistakes. Can use variedly vocabulary and constructions.
Knowledge of Spanish speaking countries and their culture
Level 1- The student can tell some facts from the target country and its culture.
Level 3- The student can tell main themes studied during the course from the Spanish speaking countries and their culture.
Level 5- Student has deep knowledge and has of the themes studied during the course from the Spanish speaking countries and their culture.

Materials

- Text book Español 2000, Jesus Sanches Lobato, Nieve Garcia Fenandez
- Material provided by the teacher

Teaching methods

- Face-to-face learning
- Group work and discussion of the topics
- Writing and oral exercises
- Lectures and guided practice 36 h
- Independent work 45 h