This is a module designed for students who completed Spanish Intermediate A2 Part 1 or who have studied Spanish up to GCSE (and who achieved a grade A or B). This module aims to provide you with the necessary linguistic tools to be able to confidently cope with everyday situations, make and respond to invitations, apologies, etc., and understand a simple and direct exchange of limited information on familiar and routine matters.

This module is the second part of the preparation for CEFR A2.

• Understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
• Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
• Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs.

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

Written class test (30%) and course work (30%).  

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

• Curiosidades (talking about new developments; ser and estar, talking about social norms, obligations and permissions
• ¡Cómo éramos antes! (describing how people and things were in the past; comparing actions, events, customs and habits in the past).
• Cuenta, cuenta (narrating events and stories in the past, describing people and things in the past)
• Un futuro sostenible (talking about future events, promises in the future, discussing looking after the environment)

Nuevo Prisma A2 - Libro del alumno, 2013; Equipo nuevo Prisma; Edinumen (Units 5-8).

A Spanish Learning Grammar, 2012, 3^rd edition; P. Muñoz and M. Thacker; Routledge.

To prepare for A2:

El Cronometro A2, 2011, A. Bech Tormo, E. Dominguez Marin, C. Salvador Garcia and M. Sauras Rodriguez-Olleros, Edinumen