ML9031: Spanish Intermediate A2 Part 1

School Languages for All
Department Code MLANG
Module Code ML9031
External Subject Code 100332
Number of Credits 10
Level L4
Language of Delivery English
Module Leader Miss Nazaret Perez-Nieto
Semester Autumn Semester
Academic Year 2020/1

Outline Description of Module

This is a module designed for students who completed Spanish Beginners A1 Part 3 or who have studied Spanish up to GCSE (and who achieved up to a grade C) or equivalent. This module aims to provide you with a broader but still limited range of oral, aural and written skills, sufficient for coping with everyday situations with predictable content and simple survival needs.

This module is the first part of the preparation for CEFR A2.

How the module will be delivered

All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

Skills that will be practised and developed

Intellectual Skills:

  • Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
  • Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
  • Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

  • Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
  • Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
  • Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
  • Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs.

Transferable Skills:

  • Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
  • Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
  • Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
  • Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
  • Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

 


 

 

 

 

Assessment Breakdown

Type % Title Duration(hrs)
Written Assessment 30 Coursework N/A
Oral/Aural Assessment 20 Speaking Test N/A
Class Test 50 End Of Module Test N/A

Syllabus content

  • Nos conocemos (greeting and saying goodbye, introducing yourself and other people, giving and asking for personal information, opinions, attitudes and knowledge related to learning,  expressing reasons for learning and giving advice on studying);
  • Me lo pasé genial, ¿y tú? (holding a telephone conversation, talking about past events and actions, establishing similarities and differences, expressing feelings both verbally and non- verbally);
  • ¡Qué día hemos tenido! (talking about recent past events and past actions, talk about events or actions not specifically localised in time).
  • Toda una vida (narrating events in the past and biographies, talking about what you have or haven’t done, applying for a job, writing application letters and CVs)

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