Title:

Spanish for Lower-Intermediate Students 2/2

Code:JS2
Ac.Year:2007/2008
Term:Summer
Study plans:
ProgramBranchYearDuty
IT-BC-3BIT-Elective
Language:Czech
Credits:3
Completion:accreditation+exam (written&verbal)
Type of
instruction:
Hour/semLecturesSem. ExercisesLab. exercisesComp. exercisesOther
Hours:026000
 ExaminationTestsExercisesLaboratoriesOther
Points:1000000
Guarantee:Borecká Marcela, PhDr., UJAZ
Faculty:Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT
Department:Department of Foreign Languages FEEC BUT
Prerequisites: 
Spanish for Beginners (JS1), UJAZ
 
Learning objectives:
To develop language skills acquired in JS1.
Description:
This course is a follow-up course to JS1. It develops communicative abilities, vocabulary and grammar, it offers listening with the use of more advanced audio- and video-courses. In the summer semester, basic terminology in technical Spanish will be offered. Students will be lent original Spanish textbooks for work in class.
Knowledge and skills required for the course:
Successful passing the course JS2/1.
Learning outcomes and competences:
Language skills and grammar in Spanish at a lower-intermediate level.
Syllabus of numerical exercises:
  1. Introduction and programme of the course
  2. Revision of some points from JS1
  3. Plans, future tenses
  4. Date, ordinal numbers
  5. How long...? Fractions and decimal fractions
  6. Articles used with names of days, irregular verbs, exclamations
  7. Weather, comparison of adjectives
  8. In a café, the verbs: decir, traer
  9. My holidays, past imperfect tense
  10. Cinema, present conditional, dependent pronouns
  11. Smoking, how to introduce oneself, prohibitions, advice
  12. Revision
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Revision of the autumn/winter semester, conversation
  15. Shopping,i nterrogative and relative pronouns, adverbs
  16. Travelling, past simple tense, conjunctions e, u
  17. Money exchange, past simple of irregular verbs
  18. Arrival, technical text 1
  19. Accomodation, prepositional structures
  20. Post office, gerund
  21. Progressive tenses, technical text 2
  22. La América Latina, past participle, haber, compound infinitive
  23. Letter Writing, present perfect tense
  24. Passive voice, technical text 3
  25. Revision
  26. Spring semester test written
Fundamental literature:
  1. Prokopová, L.: Španělština pro samouky, LEDA
  2. Coll.: VEN 1, Edelsa, S.A., Madrid, Espana
  3. Videokursy Este País, Viaje al Espanol
Study literature:
According to teacher hints.
Progress assessment:
Revision tests.
Exam prerequisites:
Semester tests.