This course is aimed at those who have completed Spanish Beginners 1 and 2. It is also suited to those who have a GCSE grade 4 – 9 (C – A*) or equivalent in Spanish from recent years.
Duration
10 weeks
Evening
Thursday
Dates
Thursday 17 October – Thursday 19 December 2024
Time
6 – 8pm
Mode of delivery
Face to face
Room
To be confirmed
Price
EHU student: free (sign up required, fee of £100 will be covered by the Student Opportunity Fund (SOF) EHU staff: free (sign up required) Member of the public: £190
Prices for the 10 week course in 2023/24.
Full course information
Entry criteria
This course is aimed at those who have completed Spanish Beginners 1 and 2. It is also suited to those who have a GCSE grade 4 – 9 (C – A*) or equivalent in Spanish from recent years.
Emphasis is set on:
a communicative approach to allow you to use the language
achieving an elementary level of communication in all 4 skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
developing effective language learning strategies
using the language accurately and confidently in a broader range of situations
What will you do in the weekly sessions?
You will be asked to contribute to the learning process by taking an active part in the lessons. This includes participation in group and pair work. . You will develop your communication skills and increase your knowledge of grammar and functions in the language.
Tutors will cover the following content, which will be tailored to each group’s needs.
Week
Content
1
Getting to know each other: name, age, residence, nationality, occupation/ studies, family Saying why you are learning Spanish Tense review: present and near future
2
Free time and leisure activities Saying what you like/dislike and what other people like/dislike Expressing preferences (food)
3
Describing your town Giving your opinion on where you live Saying how long you have been living in your town
4
Describing feelings/expressing emotions (vs characteristics) Inviting, accepting and refusing invitations and giving reasons/making excuses Expressing wanting to do something Ser/estar
5
Giving advice Future plans: saying what you are going to do
6
Making arrangements to meet at the cinema Asking about times and tickets Types of films
7
Buying train tickets Enquiring about departure/arrival times Comparing trains and other forms of transport
8
Simple future tense workshop Planning a future journey
9
Describing what you will do tomorrow Describing a future holiday and what you will do
10
Using the future to describe your Christmas plans Using Christmas vocabulary to explain what you usually do
Independent learning
You will progress further by reinforcing the topics covered in the group with private study.
Materials will be provided by your tutor and these will be available on the Blackboard organization.
Spanish Elementary 2 (January – April 2025)
This course is for those who have completed Spanish Elementary 1 or equivalent.
Duration
10 weeks
Evening
Thursday
Dates
Thursday 30 January – Thursday 3 April 2025
Time
6 – 8pm
Mode of delivery
Face to face
Room
To be confirmed
Price
EHU student: free (sign up required, fee of £100 will be covered by the Student Opportunity Fund (SOF) EHU staff: free (sign up required) Member of the public: £190
Prices for the 10 week course in 2023/24
Full course information
Entry criteria
This course is the natural progression for those who have completed Spanish Elementary 1 or equivalent.
Emphasis is set on:
a communicative approach to allow you to use the language
extending and building on content covered on the previous corresponding course
achieving an elementary level of communication in all 4 skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
developing effective language learning strategies
using the language accurately and confidently in a broader range of situations
What will you do in the weekly sessions?
You will be asked to contribute to the learning process by taking an active part in the lessons. This includes participation in group and pair work. You will develop your communication skills and increase your knowledge of grammar and functions in the language.
Tutors will cover the following content, which will be tailored to each group’s needs.
Week
Content
1
Revision of personal information, likes, dislikes, free time and future plans Conjugating the present and future tenses
2
Telephone language: answering the phone and responding to phone requests Saying what you are doing Present continuous
3
Preterite tense workshop Talking about what you did yesterday Usage and formation of the tense Conjugation practice: regular and irregular verbs Expressions to use with the past: anoche, ayer, etc
4
Describing a past holiday
5
Stages in life Biographies History periods and events in the past Saying when things happened Irregular and regular forms of the preterite
6
Parts of the body Describing aches/ pains and symptoms Giving advice
7
Present perfect tense workshop Talking about what has happened and what you have done Regular and irregular past participle
8
Imperfect tense workshop Saying what you were doing when something happened
9
Workshop: Contrast between the preterite and imperfect tenses Expressing duration
10
Consolidation of the past regular and irregular tenses
Independent learning
You will progress further by reinforcing the topics covered in the group with private study.
Materials will be provided by your tutor and these will be available on the Blackboard organization.
