ML9043: Spanish Higher Intermediate B1 Part 3

School Languages for All
Department Code MLANG
Module Code ML9043
External Subject Code 100332
Number of Credits 10
Level L4
Language of Delivery English
Module Leader Miss Nazaret Perez-Nieto
Semester Autumn Semester
Academic Year 2019/0

Outline Description of Module

This is a module designed for students who completed Spanish Higher Intermediate B1 Part 2 or who have studied Spanish up to an AS Level or equivalent. This module aims to provide you with the necessary linguistic tools you need to be able to understand topics such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel and current events, and to begin to identify unfamiliar words from the context on topics related to your field/interests. You will also further develop your understanding of the culture of Spanish speaking countries.

This module is the third part of the preparation for CEFR B1

On completion of the module a student should be able to

  • Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
  • Deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
  • 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

How the module will be delivered

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.

Skills that will be practised and developed

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 the main points of clear, standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered; understand the main points of many radio and TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interests then the delivery is relatively slow and clear.
  • Understand texts that consist mainly of high frequency everyday or job-related language.
  • Deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken; enter unprepared into conversations on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life.
  • Write simple and connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.

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.

How the module will be assessed

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

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

Assessment Breakdown

Type % Title Duration(hrs)
Written Assessment 15 Coursework 1 N/A
Written Assessment 15 Coursework 2 N/A
Oral/Aural Assessment 20 Speaking Assessment N/A
Oral/Aural Assessment 20 Listening Assessment N/A
Class Test 30 Class Test N/A

Syllabus content

Leer entre líneas – expressing probability in the present, past and future, making predictions, what could have happened? Comics and books

Por tu futuro – writing application letters, Cuban music, colloquial expressions

A punto de terminar – Television and film, expressions with infinitives, expressing obligations, suppositions, repetitions etc.

Viaja con nosotros – Expressing consequence, describing traditions, expeditions, guides and travel.

Essential Reading and Resource List

Nuevo Prisma B1 - Libro del alumno, 2015; Equipo nuevo Prisma; Edinumen (Units 9-12)

Background Reading and Resource List

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

 

Preparation for the DELE B1 level:

 

Cursos y recursos DELE | Exámenes - Instituto Cervantes

https://examenes.cervantes.es/es/dele/cursos-y.../publicaciones

 


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