Español: Principiante (B90400)

General information

Type:	OP	Curs:	5	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

There are no requirement to study at this level.

No prior knowledge is required to study at this level.

Intensive Spanish course for foreigners.
Classroom activities: 40 hours

In an ever more globalised world business is not only undertaken at a regional level, nor solely with a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale.

As such versatile and multilingual communication skills are necessary along with a broad and varied cultural training.

Globalisation also affects the job market, there is ever greater competition and in the case of the students that come to ESADE the need to master Spanish is evidently important as it provides access to job markets in places such as in Latin America.

On the other hand acquiring a third language will also allow students to undertake their university education in a foreign country (such as Spain or Latin America). With regard to the job market having a foreign language such as Spanish allows students to face recruitment processes in Spanish speaking companies and thus be able to find work in any part of the world.
With regard to the programme learning and mastery of Spanish will provide an opportunity for students to attend classes, lectures and work groups delivered in Spanish as well as interact 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. - Identify and describe: · People (physical features and character) · Places · Objects · Nationality - 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 how to do something. - Express complete agreement and disagreement: yo también / yo tampoco - Ask for, give and deny permission - ¿puedo...? - Make requests: ¿tienes...? / ¿puedes... ?/ ¿me das... ?/¿me dejas...? - Apologise and respond to an apology. - Express gratitude and respond to an expression of gratitude. - Express needs and obligations. - Speak about habitual actions in the present. - Speak about plans and intentions. - Express possession. - Evaluate: es un poco grande / son muy bonitos

2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT Verbs. Morphology and the use of the Present indicative: · the verb llamarse and reflexive verbs · the verbs ser, estar, tener · the three conjugations: the regular ones and the most frequent irregular ones · contrast of hay/está/están · gustar · saber/poder · tener que + infinitive · necesitar + infinitive · querer + infinitive · poder + infinitive - Verbal periphrasis: · Estar + gerund · Periphrastic future: Ir + a + infinitive - Nouns · gender and number · proper and common nouns - Articles: - Qualifying Adjectives adjectives indicating nationality or ethnic group: · gender and number · adjective word order - Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns: · gender and number · adjective word order · form for the neuter singular (esto, eso, aquello) · Numbers: cardinal and ordinal - Personal subject pronouns: · forma · tú/usted - Interrogative pronouns: qué, cuál-es, dónde, cuánto, cómo, quién-es, por qué - Exclamatory pronouns: ¡Qué bien! - Reflexive pronouns: me, te, se, nos ,os, se - Adverbs: · of place: aquí, ahí, allí, (muy) lejos/cerca, abajo, arriba , dentro/fuera/debajo/encima/delante/detrás/lejos/cerca (de) · of time: ahora, hoy, mañana, primero, luego, después, antes/después (de) · of quantity: poco, mucho, bastante · Adverbs of manner: bien, mal · Adverbs of frequency: siempre, nunca, normalmente, generalmente · Adverbs for affirmation and negation: sí, no / también, tampoco - Word order for simple phrases: · subject/verb agreement · (affirmative and negative) statements · Direct questions · Disjunctive questions · Exclamations · Impersonal statements with the verb: Hay · Impersonal statements with the verb: Hace - Structure of complex sentences · linking clauses · disjunctive clauses · adversative clauses · causal clauses · temporal clauses · final clauses - Prepositions (basic use): a, con, de, en, entre, para, por, sin.

3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT - Personal identification. - Classroom objects. - Classroom language. - 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. - Civil status. - Tastes and preferences. - Bars and restaurants. - Sports. - House and home. - Clothes. - The family. - Meals and food. - The market and supermarket. - Numbers. - Weights and measures. - Time. - Planning ahead. - Times of the day, days of the week, months. - Colours. - Means of transport. - Antonyms.

4. CULTURAL CONTENT - Greetings and introductions: · 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. - Accepted forms of behaviour: · In class · At table - The role of the family - Spain (autonomous communities, provinces, languages, ...) - Linguistic markers for social relationships: - Use and choice of greeting: · on arrival: hola, buenos días, etc. · encantado/a · farewells - Formas of address: tú/usted, vosotros/ustedes; señor, señora, Christian name, cariño, etc. - Appropriate use of "por favor" and "gracias"

During the course interactive activities will be undertaken that enable students to learn the course content.

The language teaching methodology and in particular that for Spanish courses is the following:

Participatory classes that give priority to communication while not neglecting grammar. Our priority is to develop oral language skills through presentations, discussions and interactive tasks carried out among the students.

Group	Teacher	Department

Group	Teacher	Department