Spanish Language (Beginners: Minor Language)

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. Recognise, understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases concerning themselves, their friends, their family and their immediate, concrete surroundings, as well as to achieve/satisfy basic concrete needs.
2. Ask and answer simple questions about personal details, in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
3. Handle short social exchanges and interactions.
4. Write short descriptive texts on familiar topics.
5. Write short, simple informative texts such as postcards, messages, formal / informal letters, or leaflets. Complete simple forms.
6. Use a series of phrases and sentences to describe in simple terms aspects of their family, other people, living conditions, personal background, immediate environment, educational / professional background, employment and matters in areas of immediate need.
7. Read short, simple texts and find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
8. Translate short texts from Spanish into English and from English into Spanish.
9. Demonstrate proficiency in Spanish grammar and syntax, appropriate to level A2 of the CEFR.
10. Read and understand short, simple personal letters and texts.

This course is an intensive introduction to the Spanish language. It is aimed at students with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish and will cover material from levels A1 and A2 of the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students will achieve CEFR Level A2 proficiency by the end of the module.

The aim of this module is to equip learners with a range of basic linguistic skills across all four language competencies - reading, writing, listening and speaking. Learners will focus on the fundamentals of the language via simple and familiar topics. At the end of this module successful students will be prepared for intermediate-level Spanish language courses.

In Semester 1 students will cover material appropriate to level A1 of the CEFR. This will include being able to express information about: Basic personal details; physical characteristics and personality; family; days of the week; months of the year; numbers; colours; the weather; likes and dislikes; everyday activities; time and frequency; asking for and following directions; transport; where you live; food cultures; urban environments; travel and holidays; what happened recently; giving advice; making suggestions; talking about plans, hobbies and pastimes; and a range of other cultural and linguistic topics.

In Semester 2 students will cover material appropriate to level A2 of the CEFR. This will include being able to express information about: what you did and what you used to do in the past; what things are made of; expressing desires and feelings; health issues; descriptions in the past; comparing then and now; recounting memories; reporting what happened in a recent book/film; telling stories and anecdotes; formulating questions and wants; choosing options; commanding, suggesting, inviting people to do something; refusing and accepting orders, suggestions and invitations; expressing possibility, uncertainty and doubt; talking about the future; talking about abstract and hypothetical situations; talking about work and the working
environment; and a range of other cultural topics and linguistic structures.

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