- Student Records
Programme & Unit Catalogues


FL10158: Spanish stage 2 semester 2 (3 credits)

Click here for further information Academic Year: 2011/2
Click here for further informationOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Click here for further information Credits: 3
Click here for further information Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Click here for further information Period: Semester 2
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Reassessment not allowed
Click here for further information Requisites:
Click here for further information Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should apply via the Foreign Languages Centre website from August onwards.
Aims:
The course aims to consolidate language already acquired, for example in Stage 2 Semester 1, and encourages students to broaden the range of factual and expressive language functions required to communicate in a variety of situations, to acquire confidence in selecting appropriate language to achieve a range of everyday tasks and to understand the general meaning of non-routine information within a familiar area and to introduce them to colloquial expressions and informal and formal styles in the written language.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course students will be able to
* Sustain a reasonably fluent straightforward description on one of a variety of subjects within his or her field of interest, presenting it as a linear sequence of points.
* Describe experiences and events, their dreams, hopes and ambitions.
* Briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
* Narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or a film and describe their reactions.
* Understand straightforward factual information about common everyday or job related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details, provided speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent.
* Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, leisure and education, including short narratives.
* Read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/ her field and interests with a good level of comprehension.
* Write straightforward connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Research and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
The course continues to build on the skill base achieved through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course continues to reproduce real-life scenarios and introduces topics which present and practise the language of reporting, narrating and expressing opinions, for example on media/ film, personal past events. It follows a graded programme of study. Previous learning is consolidated and additional grammatical structures, specific to the target language, are introduced, which include irregular verbs, the past, imperfect and future tenses, present and past participles, syntax, use of adjectives and adverbs, comparisons and the use of pronouns.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:
NB. Postgraduate programme information will be updated when the postgraduate catalogues are published in August 2011

FL10158 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

  • UXXX-AFN97 : Catalogue of Foreign Languages Centre Units - No specified year
  • UXXX-AFN99 : Generally available catalogue - No specified year

Notes:
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.