Spanish Stage 6

Wednesday 31 January, 3-5pm

Overview

This language module is designed for students who have completed SPAN905/005 Intermediate Spanish 5 or have a B1 standard of the language in the Common European Framework of Reference, for example a good AS level. Previous knowledge of the language is required. Through a variety of methods, students will develop an upper intermediate competence in reading, writing, listening and speaking and an understanding of upper intermediate grammar. At the end of this 12 week-module, students will have reached a B1+ proficiency level in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and will be able to briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans as well as narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or film and describe their reactions to it. They will also be able to enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life, e. g., family, hobbies, work, travel and current events and to understand the main point of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply increasingly complex reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in line with the B1+ level in Spanish in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
  2. Effectively communicate in Spanish in a variety of formal and informal situations.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of multiple aspects of contemporary Spanish language and Spanish-speaking cultures.
  4. Critically reflect on and effectively apply language learning strategies.

Syllabus

Functional Content:

  • Writing a letter to denounce an issue
  • Dealing with phone and videocalls
  • Telling stories and anecdotes
  • Expressing interests and feelings
  • Describing the functioning of devices
  • Giving an opinion on actions and conducts

Grammatical content:

  • The Present Subjunctive
  • Reported speech
  • Uses of all past tenses
  • Relative prepositional clauses
  • Uses of Subjunctive and Indicative in relative clauses

Lexical content:

  • Social activism
  • Intentions behind a message
  • Travelling and tourism
  • Manias and obsessions
  • Object designs

Week 12: Written and speaking tests will take place this week. Completing the assessment is required for students taking the course as part of their degree.

For all other students, taking the tests is also strongly recommended, as a measure of your progress and learning. 

Textbook details:

Aula Internacional 3 Plus Híbrida, Difusión, ISBN: 9788419236081 , approx. £30.

We recommend our students to buy their textbooks from Blackwell’s on campus. They have a price match policy and you can pre-order over the phone with them and pick the book when you are on campus.  

Study Hours

The total number of study hours for this module is 150 hours, in line with undergraduate university modules. This includes class meetings, assessment preparation and self-directed study in line with guidance from the course lecturer.

If you are studying on the extracurricular mode, we recognise that the total number of hours that you may be able to study every week may depend on your availability and previous experience studying languages, however, expected contribution to classes, homework completion, and learning outcomes will not vary.  

Please note that the ‘last date available to book’ date is only a guide. We reserve the right to close bookings earlier if courses are over- or under-subscribed. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure enrol as soon as possible. Registrations will not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm. 

Course Lecturer: Dr Lourdes Salgado

Born in Galicia, Northwestern Spain, Lourdes completed her PhD at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and was awarded a Mention of Excellence and a Cum Laude. Her research focuses on power relations between servants and masters in Victorian sensationalist fiction. She has studied such relations in the novels of G. W. M. Reynolds, known as Dickens’s archenemy, from a Foucauldian and Chartist viewpoint. She has lectured on Spanish language and culture and Business Spanish for over ten years. She is an Assistant Examiner for the International Baccalaureate (Spanish) and a Cambridge Speaking Examiner (English). She has translated two books from English into Spanish and Galician language within the field of Children and Young Adults Literature in the 19th and 20th century and has several other publications. She is also a Portuguese freelance interpreter.

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