The Language Centre

Spanish

Modules available

We are currently offering the following modules in Spanish:

  • Spanish Stage 1

 

Spanish Stage 1:

Complete beginners, students with little or no knowledge of the language.

Indicative topics and grammar 

  • Yourself and others/family/houses/daily routine/free time/holidays/clothes/food
  • Present tense/ser and estar/articles/gustar and encantar/noun and adjective agreements/demonstrative adjectives
 
Spanish Stage 2

Spanish Stage 2:

Any of the following: 

  • The successful completion of Stage 1 (one year of study)
  • GCSE (A*-B) or an equivalent qualification
  • ‘AS’ level Grade C-E
  • IB Standard level 3-5, or Higher level 3. 

Indicative topics and grammar

  • Talk about yourself and others”/ La vida ayer y hoy/La salud/¿Qué te pasa? Etc
  • Pronouns/reflexive verbs/ tenses/ ser and estar/question words/prepositions etc

 

 
Spanish Stage 3

Spanish Stage 3:

Any of the following: 

  • Successful completion of Stage 2
  • AS level A*- B
  • GCE Advanced Level grade C or below
  • IB Standard level 6-7 or Higher level 4-5

Indicative topics and grammar

  • Hablar de películas/ Géneros cinematográficos/ Hablar sobre pros y contras del doblaje/ El turismo y el daño al medioambiente etc
  • Introducción pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo/ Repaso de los pasados (pretérito, imperfecto y pluscuamperfecto de indicativo)/ Pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo etc

 

 
Spanish Stage 4

 

Spanish Stage 4:

Any of the following: 

  • successful completion of Stage 3
  • GCE Advanced Level grade A*-B
  • IB Higher level 6-7

Indicative topics and grammar 

  • Vuelta de vacaciones-las anécdotas y cosas en común. Este verano en España/ Animales sociales. Expresiones y frases hechas/ Somos lo que comemos etc
  • Oraciones causales/ Oraciones comparativas /Oraciones condicionales/ Nexos y conectores condicionales etc

 

 
Spanish Stage 5

Spanish Stage 5:

  • Successful completion of Stage 4, or
  • 1 year of post-A-level language tuition or equivalent 

Indicative topics

  • La vida universitaria/El hombre y la mujer en el siglo XXI/Current affairs of the world (focusing on Spain)

 

 
Spanish Stage 6

Spanish Stage 6:

  • Successful completion of Stage 5, or
  • ability to communicate at the appropriate level in the Target Language (sometimes acquired from a year abroad in the country where the language is spoken).

Indicative topics

  • Asuntos de actualidad: discusión sobre temas de actualidad basada en grabaciones de vídeo/radio, en artículos de periódicos y en internet en general, temas científicos o técnicos, basados en material de publicaciones semiespecializadas/temas especializados elegidos por los estudiantes.

 

 

 

 

 

The Language Centre

University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 74 86500
email: LanguageCentre@nottingham.ac.uk