Spanish 5

Brief description

Exemplary for B1 Spanish:
Communicative focus:
Current issues in the economy and politics of Spanish-speaking countries; job search (profiles of candidates, job advertisements, CV and cover letter, interview).
Language focus:
Adjectives to describe people; past perfect; indefinido and imperfect; past perfect/indefinido/imperfect; tense markers; verbal periphrases; present subjunctive in relative clauses.

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Exemplary for B1 Spanish:

  • Martín Peris, E. and N. Sans Baulenas (2014), Gente hoy 2 (Units 3 and 5), Kurs- und Übungsbuch, Difusión Verlag.
  • Dorado Debeza, M.D., Márquez Sánchez, C.D., Ramos Gómez, E., Uclés Sánchez, F.J. (2020), Gente hoy 2 complemento de español profesional (Unit 1), Difusión Verlag.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Individual work, group work; blended learning (Open Educational Resources in Moodle, online exercises, online quizzes, etc.); creation of 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 25 points, written production and interaction 25 points).

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Successful completion of semester 4

Infos

Degree programme

European Economy and Business Management (English)

Cycle

Bachelor

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

English

Curriculum

Full-Time

Academic year

2023

Semester

5 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

Exemplary for B1 Spanish:
After successful completion of the course, students can...

  • write a tabular CV and a letter of application for a job application,
  • send a video CV and conduct a job interview.
  • briefly introduce themselves in a text (job/family/hobbies) and describe an event and say what, when, where it took place.
  • In addition, intercultural competence is useful when applying for a job. Therefore, students can…
  • apply for a job position and perform a/an (on-line) job interview following the necessary etiquette,
  • analyse the job market of the Spanish speaking countries,
identify the economy sectors which stand out in the Spanish speaking countries.

Course code

1389-20-01-VZ-DE-54b