Spanish A1
Description
The course provides students with A1 level of the Spanish language. It aims to present the learners the basic lexical, grammatical and phonetic peculiarities of the language, as well as to teach them the required oral and written communication skills of the relevant level. The course covers the following: the peculiarities of the pronunciation of Spanish sounds, words, and intonation, word order of the Spanish sentence; formation of declarative, interrogative and negative sentences; introduction to the basic parts of speech; lexical items and structures for the communication on everyday topics. The form of studies includes lectures, seminars, self-study tasks and work with TELL ME MORE programme and in virtual MOODLE environment (on-line work, synchronous and asynchronous conversations and discussion forums, interactive tests and exercises).
Aim of the course
To develop communicative competence, which includes linguistic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic components, through reception (listening and reading comprehension), production and interaction (speaking and writing) and mediation (translation) linguistic activities at the level of beginners (A1).
Prerequisites
None
Course content
1. Basic pronunciation and intonation of sounds and words.
2. Formation and use of parts of speech.
3. Word order in sentences.
4. Basic spelling rules of words and punctuation rules.
5. The noun: gender and number.
6. The adjective: gender and number.
7. Agreement between the noun and the adjective in gender and number.
8. Definite, indefinite, and contracted articles.
9. Numerals: cardinal: 0–100; ordinal: first-tenth.
10. Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns.
11. Adverbs of place.
12. Prepositions: a, de, con, en, por, para.
13. Constructions with the infinitive of the verb: ir+a+infinitivo; tener+que+infinitivo; deber+infinitivo; hay+que+infinitivo.
14. Present tense of the indicative mood: regular and irregular verbs.
15. The use of the verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Colors.
6. Family, kinship.
7. Routines of daily life.
8. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
9. Hobbies, leisure activities.
10. Food products, traditional Spanish dishes.
11. Eating in a cafe, restaurant.
12. Clothes, shopping.
13. Travel by public transport in the city.
14. Naming hours, time of day.
15. Seasons, months.
1. Basic pronunciation and intonation of sounds and words.
2. Formation and use of parts of speech.
3. Word order in sentences.
4. Basic spelling rules of words and punctuation rules.
5. The noun: gender and number.
6. The adjective: gender and number.
7. Agreement between the noun and the adjective in gender and number.
8. Definite, indefinite, and contracted articles.
9. Numerals: cardinal: 0–100; ordinal: first-tenth.
10. Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns.
11. Adverbs of place.
12. Prepositions: a, de, con, en, por, para.
13. Constructions with the infinitive of the verb: ir+a+infinitivo; tener+que+infinitivo; deber+infinitivo; hay+que+infinitivo.
14. Present tense of the indicative mood: regular and irregular verbs.
15. The use of the verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Colors.
6. Family, kinship.
7. Routines of daily life.
8. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
9. Hobbies, leisure activities.
10. Food products, traditional Spanish dishes.
11. Eating in a cafe, restaurant.
12. Clothes, shopping.
13. Travel by public transport in the city.
14. Naming hours, time of day.
15. Seasons, months.
1. Basic pronunciation and intonation of sounds and words.
2. Formation and use of parts of speech.
3. Word order in sentences.
4. Basic spelling rules of words and punctuation rules.
5. The noun: gender and number.
6. The adjective: gender and number.
7. Agreement between the noun and the adjective in gender and number.
8. Definite, indefinite, and contracted articles.
9. Numerals: cardinal: 0–100; ordinal: first-tenth.
10. Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns.
11. Adverbs of place.
12. Prepositions: a, de, con, en, por, para.
13. Constructions with the infinitive of the verb: ir+a+infinitivo; tener+que+infinitivo; deber+infinitivo; hay+que+infinitivo.
14. Present tense of the indicative mood: regular and irregular verbs.
15. The use of the verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Colors.
6. Family, kinship.
7. Routines of daily life.
8. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
9. Hobbies, leisure activities.
10. Food products, traditional Spanish dishes.
11. Eating in a cafe, restaurant.
12. Clothes, shopping.
13. Travel by public transport in the city.
14. Naming hours, time of day.
15. Seasons, months.
1. Basic pronunciation and intonation of sounds and words.
2. Formation and use of parts of speech.
3. Word order in sentences.
4. Basic spelling rules of words and punctuation rules.
5. The noun: gender and number.
6. The adjective: gender and number.
7. Agreement between the noun and the adjective in gender and number.
8. Definite, indefinite, and contracted articles.
9. Numerals: cardinal: 0–100; ordinal: first-tenth.
10. Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns.
11. Adverbs of place.
12. Prepositions: a, de, con, en, por, para.
13. Constructions with the infinitive of the verb: ir+a+infinitivo; tener+que+infinitivo; deber+infinitivo; hay+que+infinitivo.
14. Present tense of the indicative mood: regular and irregular verbs.
15. The use of the verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Colors.
6. Family, kinship.
7. Routines of daily life.
8. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
9. Hobbies, leisure activities.
10. Food products, traditional Spanish dishes.
11. Eating in a cafe, restaurant.
12. Clothes, shopping.
13. Travel by public transport in the city.
14. Naming hours, time of day.
15. Seasons, months.
1. Basic pronunciation and intonation of sounds and words.
2. Formation and use of parts of speech.
3. Word order in sentences.
4. Basic spelling rules of words and punctuation rules.
5. The noun: gender and number.
6. The adjective: gender and number.
7. Agreement between the noun and the adjective in gender and number.
8. Definite, indefinite, and contracted articles.
9. Numerals: cardinal: 0–100; ordinal: first-tenth.
10. Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns.
11. Adverbs of place.
12. Prepositions: a, de, con, en, por, para.
13. Constructions with the infinitive of the verb: ir+a+infinitivo; tener+que+infinitivo; deber+infinitivo; hay+que+infinitivo.
14. Present tense of the indicative mood: regular and irregular verbs.
15. The use of the verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Colors.
6. Family, kinship.
7. Routines of daily life.
8. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
9. Hobbies, leisure activities.
10. Food products, traditional Spanish dishes.
11. Eating in a cafe, restaurant.
12. Clothes, shopping.
13. Travel by public transport in the city.
14. Naming hours, time of day.
15. Seasons, months.
1. Basic pronunciation and intonation of sounds and words.
2. Formation and use of parts of speech.
3. Word order in sentences.
4. Basic spelling rules of words and punctuation rules.
5. The noun: gender and number.
6. The adjective: gender and number.
7. Agreement between the noun and the adjective in gender and number.
8. Definite, indefinite, and contracted articles.
9. Numerals: cardinal: 0–100; ordinal: first-tenth.
10. Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns.
11. Adverbs of place.
12. Prepositions: a, de, con, en, por, para.
13. Constructions with the infinitive of the verb: ir+a+infinitivo; tener+que+infinitivo; deber+infinitivo; hay+que+infinitivo.
14. Present tense of the indicative mood: regular and irregular verbs.
15. The use of the verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Colors.
6. Family, kinship.
7. Routines of daily life.
8. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
9. Hobbies, leisure activities.
10. Food products, traditional Spanish dishes.
11. Eating in a cafe, restaurant.
12. Clothes, shopping.
13. Travel by public transport in the city.
14. Naming hours, time of day.
15. Seasons, months.
1. Introducing oneself and getting acquainted
2. Exchange of personal information.
3. Professions.
4. Description of items, place.
5. Description of the place of residence (apartment, house, dormitory room).
6. Hobbies, leisure activities.
7. Family, kinship.
8. Routines of daily life.
Assesment Criteria
A student correctly uses lexical units, grammatical structures and pronunciation and intonation patterns corresponding to level A1.
A student understands simple texts, dialogues, e-mails, postcard text, simple informative texts.
A student understands very short adapted audio and video recordings, simple instructions, phrases and commonly used words related to the basic needs.
A student speaks about common everyday topics using very simple phrases.
A student asks simple questions on familiar topics about basic needs and answer such questions.
A student correctly describes himself/herself and his/her environment; writes a short postcard; fills in simple forms.
