Spanish 3.2

Course Times & Enrolment

This course is currently unavailable.

Course Summary

Start of the independent stage. Students will move on to more complex grammar. The aim is to enable students to deal with most situations likely to arise when travelling in an area where Spanish is spoken. By the end of the course, students should be fairly confident in talking about past experiences, telling tales and jokes, talking about wishes and future plans, etc.

Course Details

Pre-requisites for enrolment

Students should have completed Spanish 3 Course 1 or otherwise acquired a similar level of proficiency.

Content of Course

Prohibitions and regulations, tales, past civilisations, entertainment
Expressing prohibitions, comparing customs and lifestyles
Talking about cinema and television
Speaking about Spanish and Latin-American stereotypes
The past tenses, impersonal sentences, combination of pronouns,
Reading and discussing cultural texts and newspaper articles in Spanish
Listening to TV news from Spanish-speaking countries

Teaching method(s)

The course is tutorial based with a combination of whole class activity and group work; use of audio-visual material as teaching aids (audiotapes, CDs, videos and DVDs).
In order to fully benefit from the course and to achieve the learning outcomes, you will need to devote some time outwith classes to revision and homework.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to:

Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Sources

Core Readings

You will be advised on the purchase of a book by your tutor during the first class of the course.

Web Sources

Where appropriate Web sources will be provided by tutor.

Class Handouts

Handouts will be provided during the course.

Queries

If you have questions regarding the course or enrolment, please contact COL Reception at Paterson's Land by email COL@ed.ac.uk or by phone 0131 650 4400.

Student support

If you have a disability, learning difficulty or health condition which may affect your studies, please let us know by ticking the 'specific support needs' box on your course application form. This will allow us to make appropriate adjustments in advance and in accordance with your rights under the Equality Act 2010. For more information please visit the Student Support section of our website.