Intensive Spanish: Beginners (2235.YR.003305.2)

General information

Type:	OPT	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
1 - Law Exchange Program 20	Joaquin Boyero Merino	Sección Español	ESP

Since this is an absolute beginner's course, there are no prerequisites.

No prior knowledge is required to study at this level.

Every class session includes activities to be carried out outside of class to help students assimilate the content through practice.

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

Globalisation also affects the job market. There is more competition than ever and, in the case of students coming to ESADE, mastering the Spanish language provides them with access to job markets in Spain or Latin America.

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

With regard to the programme, learning and mastering Spanish will allow students to attend classes, lectures and work groups delivered in Spanish, as well as interactions with their peers without difficulties.

At this level the student is expected to become able to:

- Understand and use commonly used expressions in day to day situations as well as simple phrases intended to meet immediate needs.

- Introduce themselves and others, ask for and give basic information about their home, belongings and the people they know.

- Interact in a basic manner so long as their interlocutor speaks slowly and clearly as well being prepared to cooperate.

- Understand and produce oral and written texts regarding immediate needs and well known, commonly encountered issues.

- Communicate in order to undertake simple day to day tasks that only require simple and direct exchanges of information regarding well known, commonly encountered issues.

1. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT - Greetings and farewells. - Useful expressions to control communication. - Establish communication and give reactions. - Introduce oneself and others. - Ask for confirmation. - Talk about habitual actions in the present. - Talk about habitual actions in the present perfect. - Identify and describe: people (physical features and character); places; objects; nationality; professions. - Find objects, places and people in the physical environment. - Express and ask for opinions. - Express and ask for tastes and preferences. - Express and ask about someone's state of mind. - Express physical sensations. - Express knowledge or ignorance of something. - Express and ask about the ability to do something. - Express complete agreement and disagreement: yo también / yo tampoco. - Ask for, give and deny permission.

2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT - Morphology and the use of regular and irregular verbs in the present indicative: the verb llamarse and other reflexive verbs; ser, estar, tener and haber; contrast between hay/está/están; gustar; saber/poder; tener que + infinitive; necesitar + infinitive; querer + infinitive; poder + infinitive; estar + gerund; periphrastic future: Ir + a + infinitive; past perfect in the indicative. - Nouns: gender and number; proper and common nouns. - Adjectives: descriptive adjectives and adjectives of place; gender and number; adjective word order; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns: gender and number; form for the neuter singular (esto, eso, aquello). - Numbers: cardinal and ordinal. - Personal subject pronouns: forms, presence/absence of tú/usted.

3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT - Personal identification. - Classroom objects. - Work and professions. - Countries, nationalities and languages. - The neighbourhood and city. - Physical states. - States of mind. - Character and personality. - Physical features. - Parts of the body. - Adjectives to describe people and objects. - Marital status. - Tastes and preferences. - Bars and restaurants. - Sports. - House and home. - Clothes. - The family. - Meals and food. - The market and supermarket.

4. CULTURAL CONTENT - Greetings, introductions and goodbyes. - Tú and Usted - Times of day for different greetings. - Different forms of greeting: kissing, shaking hands. - Thanking, accepting, apologising, turning down, congratulating, expressing condolences, offering a toast, inviting. - Timetables: meals, shops, work. - Punctuality. - Clothing: what is appropriate and what is not. - The role of the family. - Spain (autonomous communities, provinces, languages). - Linguistic markers for social relationships. - Formas of address: tú/usted, vosotros/ustedes; señor, señora, cariño, etc. - Appropriate use of "por favor" and "gracias".

The course will comply with the syllabus, carrying out interactive activities to facilitate students' learning.

The methodology applied in language classes and in Spanish, in particular, is as follows:

- Participatory sessions, giving priority to communicative activities and dynamics.
- Greater emphasis on oral skills through presentations, class discussions and interactive activities between students, all in a comfortable setting that facilitates students' learning.
- Motivating students in class to encourage their participation and learning.

"Gramática de uso del español" A1-A2. Aragonés, L. y Palencia, R. Ed. SM Ele.
Aula 1 (new edition) Ed. Difusión.
Bilingual dictionaries.

Group	Teacher	Department
1 - Law Exchange Program 20	Joaquin Boyero Merino	Sección Español