PT|EN
Spanish II
Courses Degree in Applied Languages | Degree in European Studies | Degree in Humanities
Cod: 51183
Department: DH
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Language
Total working hours: 150
Total contact time: 45

The Spanish II course aims to continue the learning process through direct engagement with the Spanish language and culture, as well as to achieve the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Additionally, the course takes into account the specific difficulties faced by Portuguese speakers in certain areas of the content.

Spanish

Initial

A2

Spanish Culture

  • Understand isolated sentences and common expressions related to immediate priority areas (e.g., basic personal and family information, shopping, surroundings).
  • Communicate in simple tasks and routines that require only a straightforward and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine topics.
  • Describe in a simple manner one’s background and surroundings, and address issues related to immediate needs.

  • High-frequency pragmatic, discursive, functional and sociolinguistic resources to produce brief, descriptive and narrative texts and dialogues in everyday situations.
  • Elementary notional and lexical resources to interact in everyday situations, inside and outside the virtual classroom: personal data; characterization of physique and character; family, professional and social relationships; everyday products; school life; the body and health; places, trips and services; free time, celebrations and fun.
  • Form and use of elementary grammatical units to form simple sentences: concordances; order of the sentence and constituents; gender and number of nouns and adjectives; Indicative mode of regular verbs and auxiliary verbs; determiners, pronouns and quantifiers; adverbs and prepositions.
  • Elementary spelling and orthoepia of Spanish.
  • Lexical and grammatical contrast between Portuguese and Spanish in relation to the texts and activities of the virtual classroom.
  • Pragmatic, discursive, functional, sociolinguistic and lexical resources necessary to produce brief, descriptive, expository, narrative and argumentative texts and dialogues, in everyday situations; high-frequency discursive connectors related to the texts worked; most frequent markers of communicative functions related to the communicative themes and situations addressed.
  • Form and use of elementary grammatical units related to the themes worked: irregularities in the inflection of nouns and most frequent adjectives; use and form of determinants and quantifiers; verbal inflection of the simple and compound tenses of the most frequent regular and irregular verbs; coordinating and subordinating conjunctions of the formal register; more frequent spatial and temporal markers; adverbs and prepositions.
  • Orthography and orthoepia of the texts worked.

Garmendia et al. (2022) Aula internacional Plus 2 - Libro del alumno. Ed. Difusión.

E-learning

The mandatory evaluation regime is continuous evaluation, consisting of three e-folios (written assignments in digital format), throughout the academic semester, and a final moment of Global e-folio evaluation (e-folio G), to take place at the end of the semester, with a weight of, respectively, 40% (sum of the three e-folios) and 60% in the final classification.

Para a realização dos e-fólios será fundamental ter acesso a uma câmara de vídeo e microfone (pode ser do próprio telemóvel).