Spanish 3

Brief description

Exemplary for A2/A2+ Spanish:
Communicative focus:
General Spanish: rooms, furniture, art and equipment of a home, spatial instructions, public transport routes, a search for a home.
Directions, public transport routes, looking for a flat; arguing advantages and
and disadvantages, information from diaries about historical events, description of
past circumstances, memories of past situations, expressions of similarities, differences and affinities between people, likes and feelings, evaluations of people, information about a person's personality, likes and experiences.
Spanish in the working environment: historical (in relation to political and economic events) and biographical (in relation to entrepreneurs) data of Spanish-speaking countries, circumstances of events, description of places of work, the different departments of a company, presentation of a company.
Language focus:
Place names; the affirmative imperative; the imperfect; concomitant circumstances in a narrative
and habitual action; use of perfect, indefinido and imperfect; time words; verbs and gustar, encantar, apasionar, etc; conditional I; interrogatives; feminine nouns: -dad, -ez, -eza, -ía, -ura.

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Exemplary for A2/A2+ Spanish:

  • Martín Peris, E. and N. Sans Baulenas (2014), Gente hoy 1 (units 11-12), Kurs- und Übungsbuch, Difusión/Klett Verlag.
  • Martín Peris, E. and N. Sans Baulenas (2014), Gente hoy 2 (unit 1), Kurs- und Übungsbuch, Difusión/Klett Verlag.
  • Dorado Debeza, M. D. and Uclés Sánchez, F. J. (2018), Gente hoy 1 complemento de español profesional (unit 3), Difusión/Klett Verlag.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Individual and group work, blended learning (open educational resources on Moodle, exercises, online quizzes, etc.), creating videos.

Assessment methods and criteria

Participation & performance 20%, oral part 30% (oral production and interaction 20 points, listening comprehension 10 points), written part 50% (reading comprehension 10 points, written production and interaction, 20 points, grammar and vocabulary 20 points)

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Successful completion of semester 2

Infos

Degree programme

European Economy & Business Management (Bachelor)

Cycle

Bachelor

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

English

Curriculum

Full-Time

Academic year

2023

Semester

3 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

Exemplary for A2/A2+ Spanish:
After successful completion of the course, students can:

  • understand information about companies and their products;
  • grasp the most important information from simple texts (what, where, when);
  • answer and connect simple telephone calls in the workplace, give brief location/directions and ask for guidance;
  • will have developed intercultural competencies with the aim of building up the mutual necessary trust for common business. Students are introduced to the etiquette of the organisation of the first meeting with Spanish speaking partners so that they can...
  • introduce themselves and other colleagues, as well as their own company,
  • carry out small talk.

Course code

0389-20-01-VZ-DE-33b