Basic 2
Download in PDFGENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE
Understand the main ideas of spoken texts on general topics. Write short texts and hold short conversations general topics. Acquire basic knowledge on Catalan society and culture.
TARGET AUDIENCE
People who understand little Catalan and only speak a few simple phrases and who wish to develop verbal language skills in order to interact with their environment or carry out their professional tasks.
COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
The course is based on different communication situations and thematic areas which enable learners to carry out tasks in which they have to show both spoken and written language proficiency suitable to the level.
CONTENT
Communication skills
● Describing people, homes and other places in the environment.
● Asking for and giving information on where a certain service is or how to get there.
● Understanding spoken and written notices and orders.
● Explaining everyday activities and creating simple narratives of past events.
● Creating a spoken advertisement to sell a product.
● Making a shopping list.
● Queuing for their turn in a shop, asking for information on items, requesting a product, asking for its price and paying. Issuing simple orders.
● Ordering food in a restaurant, asking for information on the dishes and giving an opinion on the food and restaurants.
● Expressing feelings and moods.
● Expressing preferences.
● Proposing, suggesting, advising and making recommendations.
● Asking for help or a favour.
● Giving instructions.
● Writing simple instructions for a recipe.
Grammar
● Determiners: articles, demonstrative pronouns (aquest, aquell, això, allò...), possessive pronouns (el meu, la teva, els seus...), indefinite pronouns (algun, cada, tot...), modifying comparatives (més, menys, tant), quantifiers (tant, força, uns quants, gaire, gens de, cap, altre...), collective nouns, multipliers (la meitat, un parell de, un dotzena de...), ordinal and cardinal numbers as well as fractions (mig, quart, terç...).
● Nouns and adjectives: gender and number inflection.
● Verbs: conjugation of the present and past indicative tenses and the verbs ser and haver-hi. The imperative mood and the use of the subjunctive mood for prohibitions. Non-finite verb forms.
● Periphrases of obligation.
● Pronouns: personal, possessive, interrogative, indefinite, adverbial and the relative pronoun que.
● Weak pronouns: direct object or subject, indirect object, locative and reflexive pronouns.
● Prepositions (a, de, en, fins a, entre, dins, sobre, prop...).
● Adverbs of time (aviat, d'hora, de tant en tant...), place (al mig, fora...), manner (al comptat, de cop...), sequence (després, tot seguit...), etc.
● Conjunctions (ni, sí, perquè, sinó...).
Vocabulary
● Etymology: trades, businesses and uses of objects and recipients.
● Thematic areas:
○ Leisure.
○ Education.
○ Everyday activities.
○ Physical and emotional states.
○ Characteristics of the neighbourhood, town or city and businesses and services.
○ Buying and selling, items and prices.
○ Food and meals: recipes, ingredients.
○ Parts of the house.
○ Childhood and children’s games.
All content will be worked on in an interrelated fashion throughout the course.
MODALITY
In-person, hybrid and online (asynchronous, synchronous and semi-synchronous).
DURATION
45 hours
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is continuous based on course work.
For more information, see the regulations for Catalan courses.
CERTIFICATION
Attendance/completion
Attendance certificates are for in-person, hybrid, synchronous and semi-synchronous online courses. Completion certificates are for asynchronous online courses. For these certificates to be issued, students must have attended or watched at least 75% of the course.
Attendance and completion certificates are only issued upon the students’ request through the processes page.
Achievement and attendance/completion
If the requirements for marks and attendance/completion are met, the CPNL will issue an achievement certificate that accredits the successful completion of the level in order to continue the learning process. This is not equivalent to any certificate from the relevant department in language policy. These certificates also accredit attendance or completion of the course.
For more information, see the regulations for Catalan courses.
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