Basic 3
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Understand short and simple spoken texts and learn basic language for everyday conversations on general topics. Write a short text using very basic vocabulary. Acquire basic knowledge on Catalan society and culture.
TARGET AUDIENCE
People who can construct simple phrases in Catalan and understand it in everyday interactions, 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 (both physical and character traits), comparing them and saying who someone resembles.
● Talking about past events and experiences that happened to them and other people.
● Asking for and giving information on general topics in the present, past and future tenses.
● Explaining a health-related incident and describing the symptoms related to a health condition.
● Making recommendations in case of emergency or in the event of a health problem.
● Making guesses.
● Asking for and giving directions on how to move around and on the premises or facilities of a building.
● Asking for and giving information on a job, responding to job posts and commenting on and assessing working conditions and job requirements.
● Asking for information and making recommendations about holiday destinations or leisure activities. Making bookings and complaints.
● Explaining a home-related incident and requesting repairs.
● Expressing preferences and asking for opinions.
● Describing the weather.
● Understanding informative, advertising, instructional, descriptive and narrative texts in general.
● Giving instructions and leaving spoken and written instructions.
Grammar
● Determiners: articles, demonstrative and possessive.
● Adjectives of frequency (mensual, bianual, setmanal...) and gender and number inflection.
● Verbs: indicative mood (present, perfect, imperfect, periphrastic past, future and conditional), imperative mood and subjunctive mood (present for prohibitions, imperfect for conditional sentences). Non-finite verb forms.
● Periphrases of obligation and probability.
● Tonic personal, interrogative, indefinite, numeral, quantitative and comparative pronouns.
● Weak pronouns: direct object, indirect object, locative and reflexive pronouns.
● Adverbs of place, time, manner and possibility.
● Conjunctions (o... o, o bé, encara que...) and prepositions (a través de...).
Vocabulary
● Synonyms and antonyms.
● Etymology: dimensions and measurements, plants and fruit trees.
● Thematic areas:
○ Biographies.
○ Family.
○ Personal characteristics: physical, the way they dress, character and personality traits, tastes and hobbies.
○ Work: working conditions, working hours, salary, holidays, job positions, spaces in work environments…
○ Foods and meals: businesses, recipes, ingredients and adjectives (cru, tendre, dur, aspre...).
○ Health: minor accidents, feeling unwell, common illnesses.
○ Holidays and leisure: incidents, anecdotes, complaints, weather, landscapes, outings, equipment and popular festivals.
○ Items and materials (guix, plàstic, fusta, pedra...).
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
The assessment is the sum of the course assessment (and, therefore, the follow-up of the work proposed by the teacher) plus the final mark of the achievement test. Course mark (0-20); final assessment mark (0-80).
For more information, see the regulations for Catalan courses.
CERTIFICATION
Achievement (recognised degree equivalent to certification from the Secretariat for Language Policy) and certificate of attendance/completion.
For more information, see the regulations for Catalan courses.
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