Foreign Language - III

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No slides and no audio files, but your own class notes transcribe all twenty sessions almost verbatim, roughly 17,200 words including every text, every model answer, every vocabulary gloss and 52 conjugation tables. For a language course that is a stronger base than slides would have been. Not thin.

The notes contain real Spanish errors, which matter more here than in any other subject, because a memorised mistake is marked wrong. Every one is corrected in this portal and none is reproduced: gustan used before an infinitive ("A nosotros nos gustan comer comidas picantes"), a reversed gloss making sus a pronoun and ella a possessive, Me levantar de la silla for Me levanto de la silla, encuentrar for encontrar, and the table typos temenos, Véis and Podeís. The notes also drill a full six-person paradigm for costar; only cuesta and cuestan are used. The two conceptual errors, the gustar rule and the su versus ella gloss, each get their own tip card.

Aula's exercises are image-based and the PDF extracts badly, because the book is magazine-style with photographs and speech bubbles. The San Andrés map, the sandwich menu, Pedro's agenda and the family tree are therefore described in words rather than reproduced, and the prices and place numbers the class read aloud are quoted inside the questions. The book is cited for page references only.

Two gaps. Set A stops at pre-mid material, so there is no post-mid MCQ set anywhere; the post-mid objective items here are built in the same 24 styles, extended to units 6, 7 and 9. And sessions 15-18 have no class notes beyond the "will not come in the exam" line, so the Present Perfect unit is built from Aula unit 9 and the group assignment brief. Check against your class slides.

The film in session 19 is not named in the notes, so it is called "the film shown in session 19" throughout. The content is described from your notes' own ten statements and comprehension questions.

Section B only: nothing. source/classroom-secB/Foreign Language - III/ holds one material, an outline byte-identical to Section A's, and zero announcements and zero coursework. The same professor teaches both sections off the same outline, so nothing in this subject is qualified by a Section B difference and nothing was withheld from Section A.

Pre mid-sem

Mock mid-sem →

Post mid-sem

Mock end-sem →

Assessment

Assessment weightage
Component	Weight	Note
Mid-Sem Exam	30%	Sessions 1-10: Aula units 8, 1, 4 and 5. Barrio and directions, the three conjugations, colours, numbers and agreement, poder, gustar, family, describing a person.
End-Sem Exam	30%	Sessions 11-20: Aula units 6, 7 and 9. Frequency and days, opinions, reflexive verbs and the daily routine, telling the time, food and prices, the film, the CV. Your notes say the Present Perfect of sessions 17-18 is excluded.
Individual Assignment and PPT	15%	Assessed against PLC 4: analyse global business practices that embrace multicultural, diverse environments and apply contextually. No announcement session and no due date appear anywhere in the material.
Group Assignment	25%	Sessions 19-20, from the outline: prepare a cover letter for a job in groups with a corresponding CV, using new vocabulary and the Present Perfect to describe qualities, capabilities and past work experience. A quarter of the grade, and the only place both halves of the course meet.

What the exam looks like

Pen-and-paper, targeting CEFR A1. The outline never prints a pattern, so the shape here rests on three things: the course descriptor, "reading, writing and verbal exercises for reinforcing new vocabulary and grammatical structures"; the 50-item Spanish MCQ Quiz - Set A in the Drive, the closest thing to a past paper; and your own class notes, which are effectively a transcript of the exam tasks.

Expect five kinds of question. Objective grammar and vocabulary in the Set A styles: which sentence is correctly conjugated, select the correct sentence, which pair are not antonyms, hay against estar, article gender traps, the vosotros form, the personal a. Reading comprehension on a short Spanish text, answered in full Spanish sentences that reuse the verb of the question. A gap-fill where each blank gives the infinitive in brackets, exactly like the reflexive-verb Actividad #1 sheet. Translation both ways. And a short guided composition: your neighbourhood, your favourite friend, your daily routine, an ideal roommate.

Duration, marks split and dates are not stated anywhere, in either section's Classroom. The mock papers here are 50 marks in 60 minutes; check the real split when it is announced.

Accents are marked. This app accepts a typed answer without them and then shows you the accented spelling, because the point of a typed exercise is the word form and the word order. On paper, write them: está and esta are different words, and the opening ¿ is examinable orthography.

What the professor expects

Three stated expectations, the same as the other Business Communication courses: regular attendance, active class participation, classroom decorum. Plus the course requirement, come to each session having read the pages named in the plan.

The method matters more than usual here. The outline says students are put into different communicative situations and are supposed to react adequately, and nearly every exercise in the notes ends with Coméntalo con tus compañeros. Say the answers aloud before you check them, even badly.

Conjugation drills are homework; class time went on dialogue. That is why the verb reference on this subject is long and why the path units drill the endings rather than explaining them twice.

Your own notes record the professor saying, against sessions 17 and 18, that the Present Perfect taught there will not appear in the exam. Verify that before you spend time on it. The group CV-and-cover-letter assignment still needs the tense, which is why the unit is built in full and flagged rather than dropped.

Books

Corpas, J., García, E., & Garmendia, A. (2016). Aula Internacional 1. Difusión. (Nueva edición, Libro del alumno; the Drive copy is 195 PDF pages)