95261 - SPANISH LANGUAGE

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student has an active and passive basic knowledge of the Spanish language. In particular, the student is able to: - read, take notes, follow a discussion in Spanish - deal with specialist economic and political language in Spanish-speaking cultures

Course contents

The linguistic content information will be selected according to the CEFR levels for Spanish. The four skills will be developed (reading comprehension, writing, speaking and listening). In this first part of the course, the focus will be on the linguistic aspect, which will give the possibility to deepen the required cultural, historical and social issues in the second part.

At the end of this course you're expected to reach B1 level.

FUNCTIONAL CONTENT

· The present tense

· Talking about the past

· Expressing the duration of an action started in the past and continuing in the present

· Expressing aptitude

· Defining personality

· Expressing the cause of an event

· Expressing probability

· Expressing moods: joy, sorrow and surprise

· Giving information about a place

· Expressing wishes and plans

· Asking and giving cultural information

· Asking for the veracity of a piece of information

· Talking about personal relationships

GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

· Verb tenses

Uses of past tenses: pretérito perfecto, imperfecto, indefinido y pluscuamperfecto de indicativo.

Periphrasis of probability: deber (de) / tener que + infinitive

Verbs with prepositions (alegrarse de, estar harto de, estar harto de...)

Verbs expressing change of mood (ponerse nervioso, dar miedo, se enfadarse...)

Present subjunctive for expressing wishes.

· Uses of ser

Ser + adjectives of personality (qualities and defects)

· Time markers

Beginning and duration of an action (hace, hace hace, desde, desde que)

Actions that happened only once (un día, una vez, aquel día...)

Actions that happened with a certain frequency (normalmente, muchos días, a veces...)

Expressing a project in the future (dentro de...)

· Discourse connectors

Cuando, luego, después, entonces

Porque y como

· Prepositions

· Quantifiers

Demasiado, muy, bastante, más bien, algo, (un) poco, nada

· Exclamatory phrases

Qué + sustantivo

Cuánto/Cómo+ verbo

Ojalá (que)

· Sentence constructions

Comparaciones: superlativo relativo

Readings/Bibliography

Nissenberg, G. Complete Spanish Grammar. Total Language Study Programme. McGraw Hill Education, 2016.

Castro, F. Uso de la gramática elemental, Ed. Edelsa, 2010.

Gramática de uso del español, Ed. SM, Madrid, 2009.

All materials will be provided by the professor via Virtuale.

Teaching methods

- Language content lessons to acquire a basis for fluent communication.

- Communicative approach through group dynamics and classroom tasks.

Assessment methods

- In itinere evaluation.

- Written language level exam.

- Group presentations.

* Spanish-speaking students need to contact the professor in order to adopt an appropriate assessment strategy.

** This course do not include a grade but is pass/fail.

Teaching tools

All resources and materials can be found on Virtuale.

Links to further information

https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=66624

Office hours

See the website of Pablo Fernández Domínguez