UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES
& INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Course Units 2015-2016
For complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with the language.
20 x 2-hour classes.
80 hours in total.
LCSP6001, LCSPG001, LCSPM001, LCSP6012, LCSPG012 (together with Spanish syllabus B).
The aim of the course is to enable students to function at a basic everyday survival level (basic vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax and phonetics). Students should be able to communicate in and understand Spanish on a number of practical everyday matters. Cultural awareness will be developed. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach authentic material, will be enhanced. Some transferable skills will also be covered.
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 greetings, introductions and socialising; talking about your family, physical and character descriptions of people; describing objects and places; expressing likes and dislikes; talking about your area and neighbourhood; talking about the weather; talking about habitual actions, daily routine; asking and giving information about work and means of transport; plans for the future; talking about the recent past; talking about food and clothes.
Main topics/themes to be covered
 introductions: names, surnames, the family;
 numbers, colours, money and shopping;
 public buildings, the house;
 time, days of the week, months and seasons;
 regions and cities;
 everyday life, work and studies;
 food and drink;

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 travelling, tourist information; talking about recent events.
Phonetics
 the sounds of Spanish (vowels, diphthongs, consonants);
 stress;
 basic intonation patterns;
 basic spelling.
Morphology
 gender and number;
 possessive, qualitative and indefinite adjectives;
 introduction to the personal pronouns: subject, direct and indirect objects, prepositional, reflexive;
 adverbs and prepositions;
 comparatives;
 present tense (regular and irregular);
 periphrastic future (ir a + infinitive);
 present perfect tense (regular and irregular past participle).
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Syntax
 affirmative, negative and interrogative forms;
 gender and number agreement;
 frequency: siempre, algunas veces, a menudo, nunca, (casi todos los días, una hora al día);
 conjunctions;
 ser/estar;
 hay/está;
 gustar;
 querer + infinitive; poder + infinitive; decir/creer (present) + que;
 tener que + infinitive;
 empezar a + infinitive;
 tardar en + infinitive.
Compulsory
 ELE Actual A1, Libro del alumno, Virgilio Borobio (SM) – ISBN: 9788467547412
Recommended
 ELE Actual A1, Libro de ejercicios, Virgilio Borobio (SM) – ISBN: 9788467547382
 Shaum’s Outlines Spanish Grammar (McGraw-Hill) – ISBN: 9780071830416
 Bilingual Dictionary (Collins) – ISBN: 9780007382385
Compulsory
 ELE Actual A1, Libro del alumno, Virgilio Borobio (SM) – ISBN: 9788467547412
 ELE Actual A2, Libro del alumno, Virgilio Borobio (SM) – ISBN: 9788467547474
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Recommended
 ELE Actual A1, Libro de ejercicios, Virgilio Borobio (SM) – ISBN: 9788467547382
 ELE Actual A2, Libro de ejercicios, Virgilio Borobio (SM) – ISBN: 9788467547481
Shaum’s Outlines Spanish Grammar (McGraw-Hill) – ISBN: 9780071830416
Bilingual Dictionary (Collins) – ISBN: 9780007382385
 Authentic material from various sources (press, internet, TV, etc.).
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials available for self-study in the Self-Access Centre.