Sheridan Course Outlines

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Section I: Administrative Information

Total hours: 42.0
Credit Value: 3.0
Credit Value Notes: N/A
Effective: Winter 2023
Prerequisites: LANG70039
Corequisites: N/A
Equivalents: N/A
Pre/Co/Equiv Notes: LANG70039, Spanish Conversation 1

Program(s): Spanish
Program Coordinator(s): N/A
Course Leader or Contact: N/A
Version: 20230109_01
Status: Approved (APPR)

Section I Notes: Access to course materials and assignments will be available on Sheridan's Learning and Teaching Environment (SLATE). Students will need reliable access to a computer and the internet.

Section II: Course Details

Detailed Description
Students explore basic communication skills including grammar, syntax, pronunciation and vocabulary in realistic and authentic situations. Through dialogues, role play, aural activities (dictations, video, music), laboratory exercises (pronunciation, listening, comprehension) and individual oral presentations students learn proper verbs and commonly used expressions to participate in everyday conversations about food, household chores, errands and travel.

Program Context

Spanish	Program Coordinator(s): N/A
This course is a part of the Spanish Recognition of Achievement Certificate.

Course Critical Performance and Learning Outcomes

	Critical Performance:
	By the end of this course, students will have demonstrated the ability to communicate using simple Spanish expressions and structures.

Learning Outcomes:

To achieve the critical performance, students will have demonstrated the ability to:

Build up new vocabulary and idiomatic expressions to be used in social settings.
Participate in conversations about celebrations, family, food and grocery shopping using the fundamentals of grammar.
Demonstrate a better knowledge of cultural customs in the Spanish-speaking world and an appreciation of some cultural differences and similarities.
Write simple paragraphs on familiar topics with sufficient clarity.

Evaluation Plan
Students demonstrate their learning in the following ways:

Evaluation Plan: IN-CLASS

	Participation, oral reviews, class activities	30.0%
	Written homework	30.0%
	Exams (2 @ 20%)	40.0%
	Total	100.0%

Evaluation Notes and Academic Missed Work Procedure:

N/A

Provincial Context
The course meets the following Ministry of Colleges and Universities requirements:

Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
PLAR Contact (if course is PLAR-eligible) - Office of the Registrar

Not Eligible for PLAR

Section III: Topical Outline

Some details of this outline may change as a result of circumstances such as weather cancellations, College and student activities, and class timetabling.
Instruction Mode: In-Class
Professor: Multiple Professors
Resource(s):

	Type	Description
Required	Textbook	¡Hola, amigos!, Jarvis, Lebredo, Mena-Ayllón, Rowinsky-Geurts, Steward, 4th edition, ISBN 9780176888268, 2019

Applicable student group(s): Continuing Education Students
Course Details:

Lesson 4: Una celebración (A celebration)

Presentation of course outline and evaluation plan.

Vocabulary related to lesson 4.

Verbs with irregular first-person “yo” (I) forms.

Uses of the verbs “saber" and “conocer” (to know).

Personal “a” and contractions “al” and “del”.

Present indicative of the irregular verbs “ir” (to go), “dar” (to give) and “estar” (to be).

“Ir a” + infinitive.

Talk about family and discuss plans for a party.

Learn to conjugate verbs with irregular first-person forms and participate in conversations using the present indicative.

Identify the uses of “saber” and “conocer”.

Recognize the use of personal “a” and contractions.

Explain what you are going to do.

Learn to conjugate the irregular verbs “ir”, “dar” and “estar” by participating in conversations using the present indicative.

Review: Students participate in conversations (pair work & small groups), and in a variety of interactive activities based on vocabulary, grammar structures and topics studied in Lesson 4. Read and answer questions about dialogues, and

resolve situations of real life based on those dialogues.

Lesson 5: En un restaurante (At a restaurant)
Vocabulary related to lesson 5.

Present Progressive.

Uses of the verbs “ser” and “estar” (to be).

Stem-changing verbs: “e” “ie”.

MID-TERM EXAM

Comparative and superlative adjectives, adverbs and nouns: regular and irregular forms.

Pronouns as objects of prepositions.

How to order meals and how to request and pay a bill at cafes and restaurants.

Talk about what is going on and what people are doing.

Identify the uses of “ser” and “estar”.

Describe people and things.

Make comparisons of equality and inequality.

Review: Students participate in conversations (pair work & small groups), and in a variety of interactive activities based on vocabulary, grammar structures and topics studied in Lesson 5. Read and answer questions about dialogues and resolve

situations of real life based on those dialogues.

Lesson 6: En el mercado (At the market)

Vocabulary related to lesson 6.

Stem-changing verbs: “o” “ue”.

Stem-changing verbs: “e” “i”.

Direct object pronouns.

Affirmative and negative expressions.

Expression: “Hace… que”.

How to shop for groceries in supermarkets and specialty stores.

Identify the use of pronouns to avoid repetition.

Learn how to contradict what someone else is saying.

Talk about how long something has been going on.

Review: Students participate in conversations (pair work & small groups), and in a variety of interactive activities based on vocabulary, grammar structures, and topics studied in Lesson 6. Read and answer questions about dialogues and resolve situations of real life based on those dialogues.

FINAL EXAM

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