Intermediate Spanish: Leisure in Spanish-Speaking Countries

The Open University

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Start Date: 19 Sep, 2022
4 weeks
Study Content: Videos

Take your Spanish language skills to the next level by exploring the leisure activities enjoyed in Spanish-speaking worlds.

Course Fee: Free

Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Examine aspects of popular culture and leisure within Spanish-speaking contexts

This four-week course will introduce you to some of the contemporary aspects of leisure and culture in the Spanish-speaking worlds, such as popular activities, television programmes, newspapers, sport and gastronomy.

You’ll draw on your existing vocabulary and develop new ways to describe your leisure preferences and those of your co-learners. Using real life case studies, you’ll examine and reflect on leisure time in Spanish-speaking cultures.

You’ll develop skills to express your feelings and emotions and explore ways of describing your personality and free time activities.

Discover Spanish gastronomy

Enjoying locally produced food is one of the most popular pastimes of locals and tourists across Spanish-speaking countries. On this course, you’ll broaden your knowledge of the varied gastronomy of Spain and Latin American countries. Furthermore, you’ll discover the importance of the food industry and ‘produce landmarks’ in the Worlds of Spanish.

Explore popular recreational activities

You’ll expand your language skills to be able to talk about games and sports in Spanish-speaking countries, such as pádel, basketball, and football.

You’ll gain confidence by discussing popular sports in your own country and the sports that you like the most with other learners on the course.

Understand the influence of the media in Spanish-speaking countries

You’ll develop your skills to be able to talk about the mass media in Spanish, focusing on aspects of the press, radio, and television programmes and discuss why this sort of media is still growing in popularity.

By the end, you’ll have the confidence to use your language skills to hold informed conversations in Spanish-speaking countries, impressing others with your knowledge of leisure and cultural activities.

This course is designed for those who are at Level A2, working towards Level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Learners should feel confident to use the language in most situations likely to arise while travelling in the worlds of Spanish.

The OU’s language ExpertTracks are designed to help you progress with each one you study. It’s suggested you work through them in order to effectively develop your language skills.

Learners would benefit from having completed Intermediate Spanish: People and Places before taking this ExpertTrack.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

The Open University

The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning.

Since it began in 1969, the OU has taught more than 1.8 million students and has almost 220,000 current students, including more than 15,000 overseas. The Open University is rated one of the best in the UK for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey. The OU is one of only four UK universities to have consistently achieved more than 90% in the survey’s history. Over 70% of students are in full-time or part-time employment, and four out of five FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses.

The UK’s latest Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF 2014) places The Open University in the top third of UK higher education institutions by ‘research power’ ranking. 72% of OU research submitted was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent.

Regarded as Britain’s major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast ‘open content portfolio’ includes free study units on OpenLearn, which has had more than 26.7 million visits, and materials on iTunes U, which has recorded more than 60 million downloads. The OU has a 41 year partnership with the BBC which has moved from late-night lectures in the 1970s to prime-time programmes such as Frozen Planet, Bang Goes the Theory, James May’s Big Ideas and The Money Programme.

All Open University Science courses presented on FutureLearn are produced with the kind support of Dangoor Education.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

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