Communication, grammar and presentation skills
This course is addressed to learners with a previous knowledge of Spanish who completed the A1 level during the last academic year or who were assigned to the A2 level after the placement test.
EUI language courses are free for EUI PhD and LL.M. researchers, but most other EUI members have to pay a nominal fee.
Spanish 201
Communication, grammar and presentation skills
CEFR level A2
All EUI members
24 weeks, 72 hours divided into 3 terms:
| First term: |
16 October
08 December 2023
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8 weeks
24 hours
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| Second term: |
15 January
22 March 2024
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10 weeks
30 hours
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| Third term: |
15 April
24 May 2024
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6 weeks
18 hours
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Time
Third term starts on 15 April 2024
Monday & Wednesday
15:30-17:00
Spanish 201: Communication and grammar skills
By the end of the course, students will
- have reached level A2 of the Common European Framework (Waystage)
- be able to discuss personal information.
- be able to find information in a text
- be able to express personal opinions
- be able to formulate requests
- know how to discuss the past, present and future
- know how to agree and disagree
- be able to make hypotheses
- have become immersed in Hispanic culture
Course contents
Course materials are provided by the Spanish teacher
The course includes work on the following:
information about topics of general interest in normal speech; topics of personal or professional interest; to learn how to take notes while listening.
Tests that consist mainly of high frequency everyday and academic-related language.
Newspaper articles.
To deal with dialogues in most situations where the language is spoken.
Conversation on topics of personal and professional interest.
Connection of phrases in a simple way in order to describe experiences and events.
To give (briefly) reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
To describe (briefly) the topic of one's own research.
Capacity to write a simple connected test on topics of personal and academic interest.
Learning methods and activities
Activities in and out of class include:
- Reading comprehension
- Grammar learning in small groups
- Pairwork
- Evaluation with exercises
- Auto-correction
- Role play
- Independent writing
- Note taking
Edurne Iraizoz, born and raised in Pamplona, Spain, graduated from the University Autónoma of Barcelona with a degree in “Ciencias de la información”.
She followed courses on Spanish philology and “Teaching techniques of Spanish as a foreign language” at the Universities of Salamanca and Santander.
She has been teaching Spanish at the EUI since 1988.
Her research interests lie in the field of the multicultural interaction , the pedagogy of teaching a second or third language, pragmatics in learning and communication, the importance of texts in the learning process.
Page last updated on 18 March 2024