Foreign Language IV – Spanish

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

Classes will be theoretical and practical, with the aim that students understand and produce the highest number of oral and written statements of the tourism sector.
Periodical Assessment consist in 1 performing frequency in the last class of the semester, whose weight is 70% of the final grade, and oral presentation of a working group, whose weight and 30% of the final grade.
Assessment by examination will include all the material taught in class during the semester.

Learning Results

1 – To understand oral and written language utterances on the specialized field of tourism.
2 – To produce oral linguistic utterances in specific situational contexts of tourism.
3 – To compose small texts in specific situational contexts of tourism.
4 – To properly use some of the grammar rules.
5 – Mastering an intermediate level of Spanish (A2).

Program

1 – Basic linguistic rules
1.1 – The alphabet
1.2 – Punctuation marks
1.3 – Days of the week and months of the year
1.4 – Numerals and dates
1.5 – Accent marks
2 – Asking for information
2.1 – Asking for and giving directions
2.1.1 – Questions of grammar
2.2 – Cultural events
2.2.1 – Questions of grammar
3 – The restaurant and catering trade
3.1 – Asking for and giving informations about menus
3.1.1 – Questions of grammar
3.2 – Complaints
3.2.1 – Questions of grammar
4 – Hotel business and trade
4.1 – Hotels, hostels, rural accommodation (rural tourism, manor tourism and eco tourism)
4.1.1 – Questions of grammar
4.1.2 – Check in
4.1.3 – Complaints

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%
Periodical evaluation
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 30.0%
  • - Frequency - 70.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

GÓMEZ TORREGO, Leonardo, Gramática Didáctica del Español, Madrid: Ediciones SM, 2015.
MORENO, C. e TUTS, M. Cinco estrellas. Español para el turismo. Madrid: SGEL, 2009.
Diccionario de la Real Academia Española: dle.rae.es