Beginning Spoken Spanish

Course Description:
Initial level course, whose contents are framed within level A1 of the Common European Framework
of Reference (CEFR), and in which, from a communicative perspective, integrated development is intended
and significant development of fundamental linguistic skills, and more specifically oral skills
(understanding, expression and interaction). Likewise, emphasis is placed on the teaching of lexical content and
discursive strategies that allow interaction in certain everyday situations, always seeking
respond to the student's communicative and academic needs.
To reach the CEFR level it is essential to complete 90 teaching hours and complement this course with
that of Spanish Language. Grammar and written skills. INITIAL level (A1).
Course methodology:
The orientation of the program is communicative, both in its purposes and in the methodology it follows. It
means that the objectives, at their different levels of concreteness, are set in terms of usability
of the tongue; that the contents are derived from the objectives thus established; and that the work methodology
is based on carrying out use activities, accompanied by the necessary reflection processes on
the language that facilitate the internalization and mastery of its various structures and units.
Course objectives:
THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE
- Be able to understand frequently used phrases and expressions related to areas of experience
especially relevant.
- Know how to communicate when carrying out simple, everyday tasks that do not require more than
simple and direct exchanges of information on known or common issues.
- Know how to describe, in simple terms, aspects of one's own past and one's environment, as well as
issues related to one's own most immediate needs.
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
- Have a repertoire of basic linguistic elements, which allows addressing everyday situations of
predictable content, although generally with the need to adapt the message and search for the words
necessary to express it.
- Have sufficient vocabulary to carry out common activities and transactions
everyday life that includes familiar situations and themes.
- Correctly use some simple grammatical structures, without the eventual presence of errors
basics is an obstacle to the clarity of the message.
Course contents:

NOTIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL CONTENTS
- Greet and goodbye
- Introduce someone and react to being introduced
- Give and request personal data
- Identify and describe people, places and objects
- Express existence and location
- Express the frequency
- Inform about one's own academic situation
- Express habits in the present
- Express tastes and preferences
- Refer to actions and situations from the past
- Refer to plans and projects
- Give and ask for opinions about someone or something
- Give and ask for information
- Express (and ask for) agreement and disagreement
- Express (and ask about) the possibility or impossibility of doing something
- Make an invitation or offer something, accept and reject it
- Apologize, thank and congratulate; react appropriately
LEXICAL CONTENTS
- Greetings, farewells and treatment formulas
- Personal details
- Countries, nationalities and languages
- Studies and professions
- Daily and free time activities
- Times, dates, days of the week and months of the year
- Family and personal relationships
- Furniture and everyday objects
- Adjectives to describe the physique and character of people
- Vocabulary to describe the material and functioning of things
- The city
- The weather
- Shopping and gastronomy
- Transport and travel