Spanish Lower Intermediate (LL193)
Summary
Level:
Pre-requisites: Successful completion of LLL Spanish Post Beginners or equivalent Level A1.
Description of entry level: You will have completed over 100 hours of tuition fairly recently or you have a reasonable foundation in the language at school level, possibly to GCSE level up to grade B or equivalent. You can deal with most common 'survival' situations confidently. You now want to start moving beyond merely practising simple exchanges during your holiday or work trip abroad, learning to cope in non-routine situations and contributing to conversations on topics of general interest.
Main Objectives:
The course aims to enable students to:
- develop further competence in a range of predictable everyday language tasks.
- develop vocabulary and extend understanding of language structures.
The course will demand more of you by way of vocabulary learning and extend your understanding of the grammar of the language, e.g. by learning more tenses.
Teaching:
Teaching will be delivered fully online on MSTeams.
There will be one weekly two-hour online session for 18 weeks.
Course Text (must be bought by student)
- Nos vemos hoy 2, Eva María Lloret Ivorra, Rosa Ribas, Bibiana Wiener, Margarita Görrissen, Marianne Häuptle-Barceló. ISBN: 9788418625213 (book + audio online). Audio tracks available, upon free registration, on the publisher's website. Students can get either the physical book, or the digital version.
Course Description
Based on a step-by-step approach, the course is divided into learning blocks that focus on practical, useful and manageable language.
The course aims to develop speaking skills through a variety of pair and group work activities, and give you the opportunity to consolidate your knowledge of foundational grammar whilst extending your understanding by learning more past and future tenses.
You will put new language into practice via games, role-plays, and problem-solving tasks.
You will access authentic texts and develop some understanding of society and culture.
Homework tasks will be set at the end of each session.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- understand the main points of a conversation or short presentation on topics of personal interest; understand conversations about everyday life, study and work-related topics; catch the main elements of audio material on topics of general interest
- understand personal emails; read straightforward factual longer texts with a reasonable level of understanding; skim and scan short texts to find information.
- describe familiar subjects; describe plans and ambitions; talk (with preparation) about colleagues, work place and organisation
- write personal emails giving news, recounting an event, describing experiences; write short texts making enquiries, explaining problems; write about job and education.
Please read our Can-do Statements (link on the right of this page) to see the competences which you will be working towards and can achieve by the end of the year.
Syllabus
Topics and communicative skills such as:
- talking about traditions
- remembering the past
- shopping and clothes
- celebrations and events
Grammar skills such as:
- present tense of regular and irregular verbs (revision)
- preterite
- direct and indirect object pronouns
- time markers (hace, desde, desde hace)
- imperfect tense
Skills
- listening, speaking, reading and writing
Subject-specific and transferable skills
- Written and spoken communication
- Strategies for understanding gist and specific information
- Intercultural Awareness, Digital Literacy, Teamwork, Problem-solving
- Can count towards the Warwick AwardLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
