Dr Roser Martinez-Sanchez TW3 6.01, Ms Ines Alonso-Garcia Ground Floor, 20 Kingsway and Ms Helen Mayer Ground Floor, 20 Kingsway

This is a non-credit bearing course available to all LSE students, staff, alumni and external clients.

No previous knowledge required. All students welcome but they should demonstrate: commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework and completion of the dossier and all assessments. Students should dedicate at least one hour per week for coursework in addition to classes. Admission into the course is upon tutor’s approval during the information sessions.

Course aims:

• To develop the ability to use Spanish effectively for purposes of practical communication in familiar work and social contexts.

• To deal with a range of predictable simple language tasks using a limited range of language to meet the needs of differing but familiar situations and topics.

• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Spanish.

• To enhance and develop the oral skills by practising the language already learnt in an interactive and innovative setting.

• To increase the confidence and fluency in the language by providing an environment for them to practise and we encourage spontaneity and creativity.

• To bring the students to level A1/A2 of CEFR.

Course content:

Communicative content:

• Asking for and giving personal information, directions and opinions.

• Describing people, objects and places.

• Talking about likes and dislikes

• Expressing preferences

• Talking about present actions

• Expressing intentions, ignorance, proposing alternatives

• Expressing frequency

• Describing what has happened.

Structural content:

• Present tense,

• Gender and plural of nouns and adjectives,

• Direct and indirect object pronouns,

• Reflexive pronouns,

• The present continuous,

• The gerund,

• Frequency adverbs,

• The present perfect.

Lexical content:

• Greetings, goodbyes and forms of treatment

• Personal details

• Countries, nationalities, international organizations and its acronyms and languages

• The city

• The family

• The weather

• Studies and professions

• Daily activities and free time

• Daily objects: Food, Clothes

• Hours, dates, days of the week and months of the year

• Adjectives to describe all the above

24 hours of classes in the MT. 33 hours of classes in the LT. 3 hours of classes in the ST.

The course will have two separate sessions.

• session one: 120 minutes (regular language class)

• session two: 60 minutes (improvisation work)

Weekly exercises, assessed by the teacher, featuring:  interactive work and oral practice; grammar exercises; reading and listening comprehension and writing.

Study pack provided at the beginning of the course.

Online grammar pack available via Moodle.

Oral examination (30%) and in class assessment (20%) in the LT.
Continuous assessment (50%) in the MT and LT.