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Spanish for Professional Communication (Level 3) (2235.YR.011202.1)

General information

Type:

 OBL

Curs:

 2,3

Period:

 S semester

ECTS Credits:

 4 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 2 Joaquin Boyero Merino Sección Español ESP

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 3 Joaquin Boyero Merino Sección Español ESP

Prerequisites

To study this course, students need to have a basic understanding of the language and have achieved the B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference - CEFR).

Previous Knowledge

To study this course, students need to have achieved the B1 level (Common European Framework of Reference - CEFR) or have passed this level.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

In an increasingly globalised world, business is not only undertaken at a regional level or solely with a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale. For this reason, developing versatile and multilingual communication skills is necessary along with having a broad and varied cultural background.

Globalisation also affects the job market. There is greater competition than ever and, in the case of students coming to ESADE, the need to master Spanish is evidently important as it provides access to job markets in Latin America or Spain.

Similarly, mastering the Spanish language will allow students to take part in recruitment processes in Spanish-speaking companies and, thus, to find work in any part of the world.

With regard to the programme, learning and mastering Spanish will enable students to attend classes, lectures and workshops delivered in Spanish as well as interact with their peers without difficulties.

Course Learning Objectives

At this level students are expected to be able to:
- Communicate effectively in day to day scenarios related to their personal and professional life.
- Understand the ideas of texts written in standard language related to work, study and leisure scenarios.
- Produce coherent texts on familiar topics or those of a personal interest.
- Describe experiences, events, desires and aspirations.
- Describe how to do something by giving detailed spoken or written instructions.
- Justify an opinion and explain their plans.
- Provide specific information that is required for an interview or appointment (for example know how to describe symptoms to a doctor), even though this may be done with a lack of precision.
- Participate in a social exchange with ease.
- Understand the principal ideas of a complex text as well as a technical text so long as it falls within their professional specialisation.
- Know how to begin both an oral and written discourse.
- Develop an argument.
- Appropriately use linguistic and extra-linguistic cooperation strategies.

CONTENT

1. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT

- Talk about the past.
- Tell a story in the past.
- Recount an anecdote.
- Argue for or against an idea or opinion.
- Relate two moments in time.
- Order a the temporal elements of a discourse (ante, después).
- Organise written and oral discourse (para empezar, por una parte).
- Decide on a future moment.
- Express probability in the present, past and future.
- Express the cause and effect of an action.
- Recount an item of news.
- Make a formal presentation on a topic linked to students' interests.
- Organise written and oral discourse.
- Express feelings: ¡qué pena! /¡qué lástima!/¡qué bien! /me extraña que + present subjunctive.
- Complain about something: no puede ser que + pres. subj.
- Reject a prohibition.
- Argue in favour of or against an idea or opinion.
- React to information: me parece fatal que / es inadmisible que + pres. subj., me ha sentado/me ha parecido fatal lo que + Indic.
- Express agree, partial agreement and disagreement in a formal and informal register.
- Identify, describe and define objects, places and people.
- React to information: ¿Sí? ¡No me digas! ¡No puede ser! ¿De verdad?
- Give advice, make recommendation and suggest solutions: Yo que tú /yo en tu lugar / deberías
- Express courtesy. Ask for permission, favours.
- Transmit information: give a message to someone when the information is in the present: dice que / ha dicho que
- Transmit information given by oneself or someone else when the original discourse is in the future and past.
- Write a formal letter.
- Ask for information: Quería saber si, podría decirme si.
- Make value judgements.
- Assess proposals, accept and reject them.
- Talk about the occurrence of an action.
- Give advice, make recommendations and offer solutions.
- Express doubts.
- Express certainty: Estoy seguro de que, Está demostrado que.
- Express the opposite of a view or someone's understanding of something.
- Express changes in a person's life.
- Express temporal relationships in the future.
- Express purpose.
- Argue in favour of or against an idea or opinion.
- Give advice, make suggestions or proposals.
- Express probability.
- Express perceptions and feelings.
- Express oneself with courtesy.

2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

- Contrast: Perfect Pret./ Indefinite/ Imperfect.
- Indicative Pluperfect Preterite. Morphology and uses.
- Temporal markers in the past.
- Anecdote markers.
- Ser and Estar: used that change the meaning of a phrase.
- Preposition use.
- Simple conditional. Morphology and uses (Expression of desires; asking for permission).
- Verbs and formulas for asking opinion: Creo que/ No creo que + present subjunctive.
- Relative clauses with prepositions.
- Uses of the subjunctive: desires, feelings, influence.
- Discourse organisers.
- Causal connectives (debido a que, a causa de que, ya que, puesto).
- Final connectives (para+Inf., para+que+subj.).
- Quantifiers (algo, algún/alguno, nada, nadie, ningún/ninguno).
- Consolidation of the contrast between the past tenses: perfect preterite, indefinite preterite, imperfect preterite and pluperfect preterite.
- Perfect preterite subjunctive. Morphology and uses.
- Connectives for structuring arguments.
- Prepositional verbs.
- Contrast por/para.
- Contrast ser/estar.
- Relative clauses + preposition.
- Periphrasis of infinitive, gerunds and participles.
- Discourse organisers.
- Direct and indirect object personal pronouns: consolidation.
- Verbs referring to change: volverse, convertirse, transformarse, llegar a ser, ponerse, etc.
- Other verbs referring to change: amanecer, anochecer, palidecer.
- The impersonality of the 3rd person plural.
- Interrelationship between the IMPERATIVE and PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE Advice / Orders / Recommendations, Permission / Prohibitions.
- Consolidation of the Subjunctive Preterite Perfect. Morphology and uses.
- Uses of the Subjunctive:
· Expression of doubts or the negation of a perception or someone's understanding of something (No es que , no veo que )
· Subordinate temporal phrases that refer to a future event.
· Subordinate phrases in impersonal statements.
· Final subordinate phrases.
· Nexus of condition: siempre que, con tal de que.
· 2nd conditional: Si tuviera más tiempo, haría deportes.
· Concessive connectives: Aunque, A pesar de.
- Finality connectives.
- Consecutive connectives: De manera que, De modo que.
- Prepositions: Por/Para.
- Imperfect Preterite Subjunctive: morphology and uses.
- Adverbs: uses and particular characteristics.
- Adversative sense of menos: Estuvo toda la familia, menos su padre.
- Use of "sobre todo" to give particular emphasis: Me encanta Picasso, sobre todo el período azul.
- Comparisons of intensity: Habla tanto que y nadie la escucha.
- Meta-textual discourse markets: Discourse organisers (openings, continuity, ending, review, internal temporality. spatiality).

3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT

- Review of vocabulary related to homes, cities, professions and the family.
- History and society.
- Politics and economy.
- Art and advertising.
- Communication media: radio and television.
- Literature and film.
- Music.
- New technologies (social networks, internet)
- Company and business vocabulary.
- Formal, administrative and legal texts.
- Employment obligations (to be on sick leave, to be available, to pay social security contributions)
- Professional studies and careers.
- Festivities and celebrations.
- Customs and traditions.

4. CULTURAL AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONTENT

Linguistic expressions with:
- The human body: ojo con, arrimar el hombro, no tener dos dedos de frente
- Colours: ver la vida de color rosa, ponerse colorado, pasar lo noche en blanco, estar sin blanca
- Work: ser un burro de carga, trabajar como un burro, ser un animal, vivir del aire,
- Animals: dormir como un lirón, ser un patoso
- Numbers: no ver tres en un burro, buscarle los tres pies al gato
- Senses: estar ciego, estar sordo como una tapia
- Social norms: invitations.
- Notions of Spanish politics, society and economy.
- Cultural differences in the work setting.
- Set phrases and sayings.
- Debates: reject an opinion in diplomatic, neutral and forceful manners. Take and maintain the opportunity to speak.
- Phrases related to meetings, discussions, such as: "Irse por las ramas", "Ir al grano", "Irse por los cerros de Úbeda", "Dar rodeos".

Assessment criteria

The assessment criteria are:

1. Ongoing assessment (participation, production, comprehension)
50% total: 50% oral and 50% written.

2. Final exam:
50% total: 50% oral and 50% written.

Students must pass both the oral and written final exam to pass this course.

Attendance is mandatory.

Students who do not sit the final exam or do not archieve a minimum mark of 5 will have to do the re-sit exam.

Bibliography

Gramática de uso del español. B1-B2 Editorial SM.
Aula 3 y 4 (nueva edición) Ed. Difusión.
Diccionarios bilingües.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Year 2 Joaquin Boyero Merino Sección Español

Timetable Year 2

From 2023/9/7 to 2023/11/30:
Each Thursday from 17:30 to 20:30. (Except: 2023/10/12)

From 2024/2/15 to 2024/5/16:
Each Thursday from 17:30 to 20:30. (Except: 2024/3/28 and 2024/5/9)

Thursday 2024/7/4 from 9:00 to 12:00.

Group Teacher Department
Year 3 Joaquin Boyero Merino Sección Español

Timetable Year 3

From 2023/9/7 to 2023/11/30:
Each Thursday from 17:30 to 20:30. (Except: 2023/10/12)

From 2024/2/15 to 2024/5/16:
Each Thursday from 17:30 to 20:30. (Except: 2024/3/28 and 2024/5/9)

Thursday 2024/7/4 from 9:00 to 12:00.