Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French through English
Open
University Course
3 ECTS credits 30 contact hours, autumn 2010 
Please find below: activities and assignments + LINKS TO COURSE MATERIALS. Dictionaries: Lexin Wordreference Eurodicautom News: Euronews Vocabulary: Similarities list Kultur: Sp.Ptg.It.Fr. Music
Webbplattform: Fronter and MORE links + the Course description
More background info on Intercomprehension
| day | no. | activities | assignments + links |
| 23.9 | 1 | Introduction: Objectives and methods: Intercomprehension: Familiar and new. | |
| 2 | Trying to understand a text about Åland. International Vocabulary (IV). | 3 hours of work + load up on Fronter | |
| 3 | Pan-Romance Vocabulary (PV): Questions, pronouns and basic verbs i 4 languages. | ||
| 30.9 | 4 | Watching a film sequence in 3 languages. Guessing the meaning of Euronews. | |
| 5 | Simple
dialogues as warming up. Pan-Romance sentence types. |
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| 6 | Practical work in computer lab. Logging on. | ||
| 7.10 | 7 | Follow-up of tasks. Administration. Music/lyrics. Sound and spelling variation of words of common origin. | |
| 8 | Robot. Things in the classroom. Plural of nouns and adjectives. Definite articles. | ||
| 9 | Easy dialogues in 4 languages. Practical work in computer lab. | ||
| 27.10 | 10 | Follow-up of tasks. Music/lyrics: Carmen etc. | Cosas2 |
| OBS! Onsdag! |
11 | Ran-romance vocab --> making fun phrases --> translate betweeen the languages. | |
| 12 | Bible/Luke 2 ch i SPIF: Pronunciation and new grammar, French-Spanish airport dialogues | Fill in the ELECTRONIC working hours account sheet! | |
| 4.11 | 13 | Follow-up of tasks. Music/lyrics: Francoise Hardy, etc. More simple questions. To introduce oneself in SPIF. | |
| 14 | Ran-romance vocab --> making fun phrases --> translate betweeen the languages. | Write a translation on a text w. a picture to a SPIF lang. | |
| 15 | EuRom4: News with audio, you work out the meaning! We train pronunciataion. News in slow Spanish. | Make a POSTER PRESENTATION about a country in which a SPIF language is spoken: (Copy/paste = OK) | |
| 25.11 | 16 | Follow up of tasks. Role cards, asking and answering basic questions | |
| 17 | World Talk Spanish. "Robot" again. | ||
| 18 | Instructions: sound recording, cooking videos, | Fill in the ELECTRONIC working hours account sheet! | |
| 2.12 | 19 | Follow-up of students' work. Body langugae as IC help (videos from EU&I) | |
| 20 | Questions and answers across languages in groups. | ||
| 21 | A news item from Euronews in four languages. EuRom4 and Euronews. | ||
| 9.12 | 22 | Follow-up of what the students have done. A fairy tale though "Itinerarios romanos". | |
| 23 | Romance word formation: prefixes, root morphemes, suffixes - same as in English | ||
| 24 | Easy texts from textbooks in SPIF: Students decode | ||
| 16.12 | 25 | A look at your self-chosen work. 20 questions in SPIF. | |
| 26 | A review of the book "English - the Bridge": The 7 sieves of intercomprehension. | ||
| 27 | More from easy textbooks. Working with a text and similarities to English and other languages. | ||
| 20.1 | 28 | Sharing and follow-up of what the students have done. Communication in three languages at the same time - everybody using their favouirite. | |
| 29 | Using VERBS present in all Romance lang. The 20 most common verbs in all four languages. | ||
| 30 | Playing with Google with pronunciation. "La mano en la arena" decoding easy Spanish | ||
| 27.1 | 31 | Sharing and follow-up of what the students have done. | |
| 32 | SPIF cultural highlights automatically translated into the other languages. | ||
| 33 | A review of the seven sieves is the book: English - the Bridge to the Romance Languages |
Senast uppdaterad 27.01.2011