Spanish language level A2.2
Objectives
At the end of the course the student should be able to:
- Understand and produce social constructions and simple enunciations related to basic daily needs
- Understand the explicit information in brief texts such as tickets, notes, messages, emails, restaurant menus, posters, questionnaires, biographies, short-stories, information brochures, etc. and draw specific information from them
- Write notes, messages, postcards and emails related to the basic needs of daily life. Produce biographies and short and simple diaries
Program
Functional contents
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To provide and ask for information II
- To identify
- To provide and ask for information about people, objects, places and times
- To provide and ask for information about cause, purpose and mode
- To describe and compare
- To narrate basic descriptive sequences
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To give an opinion and judge II
- To express in simple terms opinions: to position oneself in favour of or against and to invite to be in agreement
- To express in simple terms judgements: approval and disapproval
- Express obligation and need
- Express knowledge and lack of knowledge
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Express likings and preferences II
- To ask about and express likings
- To ask about and express preferences
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Express wishes, feelings and sensations
- To express wishes
- To express feelings: fun, boredom, anger, etc.
- To express physical and emotional sensations
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Influence others II
- To give instructions: in a direct way or more gently manner
- To offer and to invite
- To accept and to reject proposals, offerings & invitations
- To propose and to suggest
- To ask for help, for permission, for a favour…
- To advise
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Social uses of language
- To greet and bid farewell
- To introduce oneself and react to an introduction. Formal presentations
- To apologize and react to an apology
- To be grateful
- To express oneself in other social situations
- To Express courteous wishes: at parties and celebrations, meals, during trips, etc.
- How to structure discourse II
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Spelling II
- The alphabet
- Spelling of letters and words: why/because (“por qué/porque”); numbers and digits
- Spelling of capital letters and lower case
- Spelling of verbal forms
- Accentuation: distinction between types of words and recognizing stressed syllables
- Punctuation: Basic uses of full stop, hyphen and coma; interrogation and exclamation marks; parenthesis
Grammar contents
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The substantive II
- CTypes of substantive Proper and common nouns
- Gender and number of substantives
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The adjective II
- Types of adjectives Qualifying and relational adjectives
- Gender and number of adjective
- Grades of the adjective: comparative grade
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The article II
- Types of articles Definite and indefinite articles
- Restrictions
- Values and meaning
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Demonstratives II
- Values and meaning
- Syntactic distribution
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Possessives II
- Stressed and unstressed forms
- Syntactic distribution
- Combination with other elements
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Quantifiers II
- Own individual quantifiers quantifiers Numerals, universals, non universals and gradatives
- Focal quantifiers or presuppositional includers quantifiers
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The personal pronoun II
- Subject pronoun. Presence/absence
- Unstressed pronouns as Direct Object: absence, complete series. Position.
- Unstressed pronouns as Indirect Object: complete series. Position Form, values and meaning: to like and to hurt, “gustar, doler”
- Combination pronoun IC/DC
- Values of SE
- Reflexive pronouns
- Relatives II
- Interrogatives and exclamatives II
- The Adverb and the adverbial locutions II Adverbs of location, adverbs of time; adverbs of quantity and mode; prepositive adverbs and affirmative adverbs, negatives and of opposition
- Basic prepositions II
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The verb II
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Indicative
- Present. Values and meaning Most frequent vocal, consonant and spelling irregularities
- Past perfect
- Indefinite past. Most frequent irregularities
- Imperfect preterite: normal and descriptive imperfect
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Contrast
- Present/ present perfect
- Present / imperfect
- Perfect/ preterit
- Imperative: affirmative, most frequent regulars and irregulars
- Non personal forms: infinitive, gerund and participle
- Verbal periphrases . Formal aspects. Pronoun position
- Contrast of to be: “ser / estar / haber”
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Indicative
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The Nominal syntagm II
- Concordance, complements and modifiers
- Vocative
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The verbal syntagm II
- Nucleus and complements
- Copulative or attributive verbs
Bibliography
- ESPAÑOL GIRALT, M, (2010): El día a día en español 2. Nivel Principiante, Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions. Universitat de Barcelona.
- MIÑANO, J. (2012): Y, ahora, la gramática A2, Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions Universitat de Barcelona.
- MIÑANO, J. (2009): Practica tu español, Madrid, SGEL.
- VV.AA. (2019): Vitamina A2, Madrid, SGEL.
- VV.AA. (2010): Gramática básica del estudiante español. A1-B1, Madrid, Editorial Difusión.