Overview

This module runs during the second semester and is aimed at students with some prior knowledge of Spanish. The course is based on a communicative approach and helps students to enhance all the key language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. After each of the contact hours, students are expected to spend at least 30 minutes of self-study to revise and consolidate what they have learned in class.

The textbook for this course is: ELE Actual A2: Libro del Alumno + CDs, by Virgilio Borobio. SM. (2019 ed.)

By the end of this course students will approach level A2 Threshold as defined by the Common European Framework, Language Assessment Scales.(1) Students are expected to cover chapters 6-10 of their textbook.

(1) Level A2: Competent in a limited range of language tasks, performed in familiar work and social contexts. Repertoire is equal to most routine language tasks and the user has sufficient grasp of grammar to cope with some non-routine tasks. This applies to all the 4 language skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing.

Learning Outcomes

• An understanding of the following grammar: - Present and past tenses (including pluperfect) - The subjunctive - The conditional - Conjunctions - Ser/Estar - Reflexive verbs - Prepositional verbs - Reported speech - The imperative - Conditional clauses

• An understanding of the following topics and functions: - Talking about oneself and others: family; daily routine; preferences; likes/dislikes; hobbies and free time both in the present and in the past - Expressing emotions - reacting to events - Applying for jobs - Giving and understanding instructions - Talking about hypotheses - expressing opinions and describing consequences