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Spanish B2.1

Objectives

Achieve skills compatible with part of level B2 of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
1. Understand the information, opinions and subjective evaluations in different texts, and recognize some implicit information in the message: hints, humor and irony.
2. Provide detailed information; Express and defend its own opinions on different improvised conversation topics.
3. Write texts with some degree of complexity (formal letters, short reports, essays) on personal, professional and academic subjects.
4. Acquire knowledge on Spain and Latin America’s historical, political and linguistic realities.
5. Be able to relate the mother culture with the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries, and to develop a sense of open-mindeness and interest in cultural diversity.
6. Guide learning to different professional areas and the world of work.

General characterization

Code

711111118

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Armando Trinidad Aguilar de Leon, Maria Nieves Lagunas Vila

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Have completed the previous levels (A1, A2 and B1).

Bibliography

1. AAVV (2013). Gente hoy 3 (nivel B2). Libro del alumno. Barcelona: Difusión.
2.AAVV. (2010). Las claves del nuevo DELE B2. Barcelona: Difusión.
3. Diccionario on line de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua: http://www.rae.es.
4. Vázquez Montalbán, M. (1998). Crónica sentimental de España. Barcelona: Grijalbo.
5. AAVV. (2020). El futuro después del coronavirus. Especial de El País. Disponible en: https://elpais.com/especiales/2020/coronavirus-covid-19/predicciones/

Teaching method

Inductive and deductive, formal and communicative activities, based on one or more type of language feature (expression, comprehension, interaction and mediation), focussing on the students' needs, and emphasising the integration of skills, intercultural reflection, autonomous learning and the use of digital media.
Continuous Evaluation. Two tests done in class; oral presentations and written work. Evaluation will be based on communicative competence, accuracy and appropriacy, the use of learning strategies, knowledge about sociocultural aspects of the Hispanic world and an ability for critical cultural reflection.

Evaluation method

Oral expression and oral interaction in class (20%). Written compositions (20%)(40%), Reading test: commentary of a work (extensive reading)(20%), Test: linguistic, pragmatic and cultural contents(40%)

Subject matter

1. Ways of addressing people in written and oral expression, mediation, comprension anda interaction.
2. Linguistic exponents which will allow the achievement of the following issues: exposing a subject, transmitting instructions, relating informations and expressing opinions using own ideas, as well as expressing attitudes, beliefs and feelings.
3. Revision and systematization of past tenses. Temporal markers.
4. Revision and systematization of future and conditional.
5. Specific uses of indirect speech.
6. Active and passive lexicon (coloquial, standard and cultivated) on different subjects.
7. Lexic on literary, journalistic, publicity, commercial and scientific texts.
8. Phraseology.
9. Orthographic rules.
10. Current events: the relations between the Hispanic world and the european community.