Blanquerna-URL - Carrer del Císter, 34. 08022 Barcelona
Faculty
School of Psychology, Education and Sport Science
This course is aimed at providing students with linguistic tools needed to face basic daily communicative situations.
Fee
Tuition fee: this course is free of charge
Recognition of credits
Recognition of 1.5 ECTS
Objectives
To introduce foreign students to the Catalan language and culture.
To help foreign students in their integration into the university community.
To help foreign students acquire a level of Catalan that allows them to communicate and develop within the Catalan society.
Method
Classes will follow a communicative approach from real productions (both oral and written) in the university and extra-university context. The method will be dynamic and communicative, and will encourage oral participation in class, aiming to improve the four linguistic skills. Grammar and vocabulary knowledge will be extended and consolidated.
Assessment
This course’s evaluation will be based on:
Class participation
Assessment of activities to be developed throughout the course
A final assessment exercise
Registration
If you want to sign up, write an email to the Language Service ([email protected]), with your name, surname, ID and the course to enroll in.
The linguistic scope of Catalan.
Catalan phonetic system.
Correlation between sound and spelling. Alphabet.
Basic words and expressions used in daily communicative situations:
Introductions
Greetings
Directions and locations
Timetables and dates
Daily actions and activities
Work, professions and jobs
Requests in restaurants and shops
Physical descriptions
Physical and mood states
Directions and means of transport
Weather conditions
Opinions and assessments
Basic vocabulary of everyday life
Morphology and syntax:
Nouns. Gender and number
Articles. Determinative articles
Adjectives
Pronouns
Verbs. Models of conjugation. Regular forms. Main irregular verbs
Prepositions and prepositional phrases. Adverbs and adverbial phrases