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UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &

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Spanish Level 1(Common European Framework Level A1)

Prerequisite for entryFor complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with the language.

Term duration10 x 2-hour classes.

ProgressionAfter 20 hours students may progress to level 1+

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the course is to enable students to function at a basic everyday survival level(basic vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax and phonetics). Students should be able to

communicate in and understand Spanish on a number of practical everyday matters.

Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach some

authentic material will be introduced. Some transferable skills will also be covered.

Functions

- Greeting and saying goodbye. Introducing yourself and asking someones name.

- Asking and saying nationality, origin and spoken languages.- Speaking and asking about profession, place of work and study. Telling and asking

about address, telephone number and e-mail address.

- Greeting and introducing someone in a formal way.

- Talking about family and relationships, marital status, and age. Describing someones

physical appearance and character.

- Expressing existence. Asking about prices and buying things in a shop.

- Describing your city or town and your area.

- Describing your house and your bedroom. Talking about the location of an object or a

piece of furniture.

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Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered

- Greetings and farewells. Introductions.

- Countries and nationalities. Languages.

- Jobs, places of work and studies.

- Personal details: address, telephone number and email address.

- Meeting people in a formal and in a more informal way.

- Family and relationships.

- Physical appearance and character.

- Objects. Shopping. Currencies.

- Cities, towns and regions.

- The house and the pieces of a house.

Phonetics

- Basic rules of the Spanish pronunciation.

Grammar and linguistic structures

- The alphabet. Spelling words.

- Numbers.

- Subject and reflexive pronouns.

- Subject pronouns: tversus usted.

- Verbs: Regular and irregular verbs in the Present tense.

- Verbs: serversus estar.- Nouns: gender and number.

- Adjectives: gender and number. Agreement between nouns and adjectives.

- Definite and indefinite articles.

- Possessive adjectives.

- Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns.

- Interrogatives adjectives, pronouns and adverbs.

- Adverbs and prepositions of place.

Learning Resources

Book

Course book: Curso de espaol para extranjeros ELE ACTUAL A1 (students book).

Virgilio Borobio. Ediciones SM. (chapters 1 - 8) ISBN: 978-84-675-4741-2

In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the Self-

Access Centre.