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Information for people arriving at the UdL

 

• Catalan Courses
• Welcome activities (International Relations Office and Language Service)
• I've learned Catalan
• Linguistic Resources for non-Catalan speakers
• Language Volunteers
• Language Exchange Programme
• Spanish Courses for Foreigners
• English Courses
• French Course
• Course Programmes in Catalan, Spanish, Occitan, Chinese and English
• Sociolinguistic information

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Catalan Courses

Beginner Level Intensive Course in Catalan (A1)*

This course has a duration of 40 hours and allows students to start studying Catalan before classes start. The course is imparted intensively from the 19th  to the 30th January 2009 and includes complementary activities to enjoy culture and leisure in Lleida.

 

It is highly recommendable to enrol in this course, since it will be useful in order to follow lectures and integrate more easily into university life.

* for students who enrol at the University of Lleida for the first time . 

 

Duration: 40 hours

Dates: 19th to 30th January 2009

Classes Timetable:

• From 19th to 23rd January

• From 26th to 30th January

Price: free

Registration: please fill in the form

Deadline for Registration: until the 14th January 2009

Location: Multi-purpose Building, Cappont Campus (map)

Contents and Methodology: programme

Credits: 3 ECTS (4 UdL)

 
For further information you can contact us at sl@sl.udl.cat

 

Welcome activities programme: Internacional Relations Office

Catalan for Beginners (A1)

Addressed to: non-Catalan speakers who enrol at the University of Lleida for the first time.

Duration: 40 hours

Price: free (non UdL members: 140 €)

Location: Campus de Cappont

Credits: 3 ECTS (4 UdL),  for students who enrol at the University of Lleida for the first time.

Campus: Cappont

From 9th February to 12th March 2009
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 18 to 20 h

Registration: from the 26th January 2009 at the Language Service

       Contents and Methodology: programme

 

Elementary Level in Catalan (A2)

Registration: from 26th January 2009 until a week before classes start

Credits: 3 ECTS (4 UdL), for students who enrol at the University of Lleida for the first time.

Students who successfully the requirements of this course can sit for the official examination in Catalan (Nivell Bàsic)

Attendance-based Course

Duration: 40 hours

Price: free (non UdL members: 140 €)

Contents and Methodology: programme

Campus: Cappont  

Timetable

From 17th February to 1st April 2009
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 19 to 21 h
(classroom)

From 24th March 2009 to 21st May 2009

The course will start on the 31st March

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 18 to 20 h

(classroom)

 

Self-Learning Course*  

Duration: 60 hours = 20 hours of attendance-based sessions + 40 hours of autonomous work at the  Language Self-Learning Centre  (CAL) on a flexible timetable (Monday to Friday from 9 to 14 h and from 16 to 20 h).

Price: free (non UdL members: 180 €)

Contents and Methodology: programme

Timetable

          From  5th March 2009 to 21st  May 2009

Attendance-based session: Tuesday from 11 to 13 h

 

From  2nd March 2009 to 25th May 2009

The course will start on the 9th March

Face-to-face sessions: Monday from 16 to 18 h

 

 Self-learning

Autonomous learning in the Language Self-Learning Centre.

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Linguistic Resources for non-Catalan speakers

Places for learning Catalan worlwide

Lingcat. Present situation of Catalan

Interc@t. Resources for learning Catalan language and culture

A university phrase book

More resources for learning Catalan

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Language Volunteers

The group of Language Volunteers is formed by students and staff from UdL who are willing to help students to integrate to the university and Lleida, in areas such as student life, leisure and cultural activities, language, etc. Those students registered in mobility programmes will be assigned a language volunteer on their arrival. Students who are not part of a mobility programme but who are interested in contacting a language volunteer can do so at the Linguistic Service.

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Language Exchange Programme

Would you like to meet other university students for some conversation in Catalan while you help them learn your native language? Language Exchange Programme.

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Spanish Courses for Foreigners

Regulations

General Courses

Duration: 50 hours

Price:

• Non UdL members: 175 €
  
• Exchange students from China and Erasmus Mundus: free
• Erasmus programme and UdL mobility programme: 50 €
• Visiting students: 100 €
• Other exchange programmes: 100 €
  

Registration: from 16th February until a week before classes start

Credits: 3.5 ECTS (4.5 UdL)

Students are required to take a placement test in order to access the Spanish Courses. Spanish 0 level students must not pass the level test. They have to enrol directly in A1 Level.

 

Last opportunity!

Dates:

18th February 2009

Timetable: 10 h

Place: classroom 1.12, Polivalent Building, campus Cappont

9th and 10th February 2009

Timetable:

from 12 to 14 h (writing), classroom 1.11 Edifici Polivalent, campus de Cappont ( map)

from 15 to 19 h (oral), classroom 2.12 Edifici Polivalent, campus de Cappont ( map)

       Results : 16 February 2009

 

A1 (Breakthrough)

From 23rd February  to 18th May 2009

Monday, Wednesday, and every other Friday, from 14 to 16 h

Place: Cappont ( map ) (classroom)

Programme

 

A2 (Waystage)

From 24th February  to 21st May  2009

Tuesday, Thursday, and every other Friday, from 14 to 16 h

Place: Cappont ( map )

Programme

 

B1 (Threshold)

From 3rd March to 28th May 2009

Tuesday , Thursday, and every other Friday, from 14 to 16 h

Place: Cappont ( map ) (classroom -1.01, Centre de Cultures i Cooperació Transfronterera)

Programme

 

B2 (Vantage)

From 2nd March to 25th May 2009

Monday , Wednesday, and every other Friday, from 16.30 to 18.30 h

Place: Cappont ( map ) (classroom)

Programme

 

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English Courses

  Students are required to take a placement test in order to access the English Courses.

Dates:

19th January, 9th and 23rd February 2009, from 16 a 18 h

Place: classroom 0.15, Centre de Cultures i Cooperació Transfronterera, campus de Cappont

Specific Courses

 

• English Conversation Group (Pre-intermediate level) (A2)

Duration: 20 hours

Price: 40 €

Registration: from 26th January 2009 until a week before classes start

Credits UdL: 2

Place: campus de Cappont ( map ) (classroom)

Contents and Methodology: programme

Timetable: from 4rd March 2009 to 19th May 2009,Tuesday from 18 to 20 h

 

• English Conversation Group (Intermediate level) (B1)

Duration: 20 hours

Price: 40 €

Registration: from 26th January 2009 until a week before classes start

Credits UdL: 2

Place: campus de Cappont ( map ) (classroom)

Contents and Methodology: programme

Timetable: from 4th March  to 13th May 2009, Wednesday from 18 to 20 h

 

• English Conversation Group (Advanced level) (B2)

Duration: 20 hours

Price: 40 €

Registration: from 26th January 2009 until a week before classes start

Credits UdL: 2

Place: campus de Cappont ( map ) (classroom)

Contents and Methodology: programme

Timetable: from 23rd February  to 25th May 2009, Thursday from 18 to 20 h

 

 

 

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French Course

Beginner Level (A1) blended

Duration: 100 hours (combines 50 hours of attendance-based sessions + 50 hours of autonomous work at the UdL Virtual Campus)

Credits: 6 (pending)

Price: UdL: 90 € / Non UdL members: 175 €

Registration: from 26th January 2009 until a week before classes start

Timetable: from February to June 2009

Contents and Methodology: programme

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Course Programmes in Catalan, Spanish, Chinese and English

Catalan

Beginner Level intensive Course in Catalan (A1) / Catalan for Beginners (A1)

Objectives:

The aim of the course is to develop oral receptive and productive skills and enable students to solve basic communicative needs in Catalan in their daily and academic life.

 

Contents:

- Sentences, expressions and vocabulary to attain the basic communicative competences:

    - Greetings and identification

    - Introductions

    - Location

    - Schedules and timetables

    - Jobs

    -The market

    -Actions and daily activities

    -Opinions, likes and preferences

    - Requests, services and availability

    - Reading, comprehension and writing short texts about usual topics related to the academic field

- Strategies to compensate the student’s limitations in the target language.

- Introduction to the Catalan culture and society.

- Basic information about situations in academic life.

 

Methodology:

Face-to-face sessions. Communicative approach to language learning. Comprehension of texts related to university life. Cultural activities.

 

Evaluation:

80% attendance and final test.

 

Materials:

 - The Sisplau dossier + texts to develop understanding + speaking university guides + 80 tips + lingcat + Lleida advertisement + studying material photocopies.

Elementary Level in Catalan (Bàsic A2 )

Objectives:

The aim of the course is to develop oral receptive and productive skills and enable students to solve basic communicative needs in Catalan in their daily and academic life.

 

Contents:

- Usual sentences and expressions in relation to basic communicative needs: personal information, family life, shopping, local geography, jobs, etc.

- Exchanging information about topics in daily life.

- Experiences and aspects of the student’s cultural background and close environment in relation to their immediate needs.

- Texts from media.

- Reading and writing brief texts.

- Basic structures and vocabulary to carry out essential language functions (thanking, greeting, making requests, etc.).

- Strategies to compensate the student’s limitations in the target language.

- Introduction to the Catalan culture and society.

- Basic information about situations in academic life.

 

Methodology:

Face-to-face sessions. Communicative approach to language learning. Comprehension of texts.

Evaluation:

80% attendance and final test.

Materials:
Veus 1 . Curs de català. Llibre de l’alumne, Ed. Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat

 

Elementary Level in Catalan (Bàsic A2 ) with self-learning

 
Objectives:

The aim of the course is to develop oral receptive and productive skills and enable students to solve basic communicative needs in Catalan in their daily and academic life.

 

Contents:

- Usual sentences and expressions in relation to basic communicative needs: personal information, family life, shopping, local geography, jobs, etc.

- Exchanging information about topics in daily life.

- Experiences and aspects of the student’s cultural background and close environment in relation to their immediate needs.

- Texts from media.

- Reading and writing brief texts.

- Basic structures and vocabulary to carry out essential language functions (thanking, greeting, making requests, etc.).

- Strategies to compensate the student’s limitations in the target language.

- Introduction to the Catalan culture and society.

- Basic information about situations in academic life.

 

Specific contents of the course:

- Conversation groups.

- Autonomous and monitored work with “Diàleg Multimèdia” CD-ROM.

- Autonomous work with other resources and materials from CAL (Self-Learning Language Centre).

 

Methodology:
20 hours of group session with the teacher and a minimum of 40 hours of autonomous work at CAL.

 

Evaluation:
80% face to face sessions attendance, hours of autonomous work and completion of the units.

Materials:
Materials from CAL: Diàleg Multimèdia 1 and 2 + book Llindar 1 (Edicions l’Àlber).

 

Spanish

A1 level in Spanish (Acceso)

Objectives:

The aim of the course is to attain enough linguistic competence to cope with situations that require a basic communicative level, such as greeting, introducing oneself, describing people and objects, shopping (buying products, tickets for public transport, etc.), or explaining situations and causes. Listening comprehension and oral expression will be emphasised.

As most participants are university students, the course will especially insist upon the skills that are most needed in academic life.

Contents:

- Greetings and farewells. Introducing oneself and others.

- Requesting and giving information about people, things, places, and experiences.

- Describing habits. Expressing tastes and preferences.

- Basic shopping. Asking for the price of things. Weights and measures.

- Conversation in a bar or in a restaurant.

- Giving opinions, making recommendations, and giving advice.

- Giving instructions.

- Explaining situations and causes.

 

Methodology:

Communicative approach to language learning.

45 hours of class + 5 hours of conversation in small groups.

 

Evaluation:
80% attendance and final test.

 

Materials:
Dossier.

 

 

 

A2 level in Spanish (Plataforma)

Objectives:

The aim of the course is to attain enough linguistic competence to cope with situations that require a basic communicative level, such as greeting, introducing oneself, asking for information, describing people and objects, shopping, thanking, apologising, making and accepting invitations, expressing feelings, exchanging ideas, or explaining causes. Listening comprehension and oral expression will be emphasised.

As most participants are university students, the course will especially insist upon the skills that are most needed in academic life.

Contents:

- Requesting and giving information about people, things, places, and experiences.

- Describing habits. Expressing tastes and preferences.

- Giving opinions, making recommendations, and giving advice.

- Giving instructions.

- Explaining situations and causes.

- Describing and evaluating objects, situations, leisure activities, places.

- Asking and answering about physical state and mood.

- Making and refusing invitations  

- Expressing feelings.

 

Methodology:

Communicative approach to language learning.

45 hours of class + 5 hours of conversation in small groups.

 

Evaluation:
80% attendance and final test.

 

Materials:
Dossier.

 

 

B1 level in Spanish (Umbral)

Objectives:

The aim of the course is to attain enough linguistic competence to cope with usual situations in everyday life, in communicative conditions that do not require a specialised use of language. The students’ ability to interact with others and make themselves understood in various situations will therefore be emphasised.

As most participants are university students, the course will especially insist upon the skills that are most needed in academic life.

 

Contents:

- Describing spaces.

- Describing changes in mood and behaviour.

- Establishing relationships between actions and situations.

- Giving instructions.

- Reporting what someone else said.

- Referring to biographic data.

- Evaluating actions, success, qualities.

- Expressing purpose.

- Expressing certainty and probability.

- Expressing condition.

- Establishing relationships between future events.

- Apologising.

 

Methodology:

Communicative approach to language learning.

45 hours of class + 5 hours of conversation in small groups.

 

Evaluation:
80% attendance and final test.

 

Materials:
Dossier.

 

 

B2 level in Spanish (Avanzado)

Objectives:

The aim of the course is to attain enough linguistic competence to cope with usual situations in everyday life, in communicative conditions that may require a specialised use of language. The course will therefore insist upon the students’ ability to interact with others and make themselves understood in various communicative situations with a competence that resembles that of a native speaker.

As most participants are university students, the course will especially insist upon the skills that are most needed in academic life.

 

Contents:

- Describing physical appearance and personality.

- Talking about the past. Telling tales.

- Giving definitions and giving instructions.

- Agreeing and disagreeing.

- Expressing resignation.

- Making hypotheses and expressing probability.

- Expressing purpose.

- Proposing solutions.

- Repeating, explaining, and summarising what has been said.

- Organising discourse.

- Abstract descriptions and evaluations.

- Expressing conditions and arguments.

- Justifying and criticising events.

Methodology:

Communicative approach to language learning.

45 hours of class + 5 hours of conversation in small groups.

 

Evaluation:
80% attendance and final test.

 

Materials:
Dossier.

 

 

English

Preintermediat English Conversation Group

Aims:

To help people who have reached preintermediate English level become familiar with some abilities that could be useful to improve their comprehension and expression in daily and professional situations.

Contents:

Every session of this course will be about everyday life and professional topics that encourage assistants to participate in the conversation:

- To communicate in usual situations that demand a simple and direct information exchange.

- To describe in a simple way subjects of one’s experience, subjects of one’s environment or related to immediate necessities.

- To understand basic sentences and expressions related to everyday topics, such as personal or familiar information, buying, local geography, jobs, etc.

Methodology:

This course is given in class, so you must attend classes. Its aim is to improve understanding and expression through practicing everyday situations about one’s personal and professional life.

Evaluation:

80% for attending classes and a final test (oral exam).

Notes:

Requirement: you must have preintermediate level of English. Students who don’t prove to have this level may do an oral level test.

 

Intermediate English Conversation Group

 

Aims:

To help people who have reached intermediate English level become familiar with some abilities that could be useful to improve their comprehension and expression in daily and professional situations.

 

Contents:

Every session of this course will be about everyday life and professional topics that encourage assistants to participate in the conversation:

- To express in a fluent and spontaneous way so that interaction in English can be possible.

- To produce clear and detailed messages in a wide range of topics.

- To express one’s opinion about a topic, exposing vantages and disadvantages of different options.

- To understand and explain principal ideas of texts about specific or abstract topics.

 

Methodology:

This course is given in class, so you must attend classes. Its aim is to improve understanding and expression through practicing everyday situations about one’s personal and professional life.

 

Evaluation:

80% for attending classes and a final test (oral exam).

 

Notes:

Requirement: you must have intermediate level of English. Students who don’t prove to have this level may do an oral level test.

 

Advanced English Conversation Group

Aims:    

To help people who have reached intermediate English level become familiar with some abilities that could be useful to improve their comprehension and expression in daily and professional situations. It can be also useful to people who want to practice their English.

 

Contents:    

Every session of this course will be about everyday life and professional topics that encourage assistants to participate in the conversation:

 

-  To express in a fluent and spontaneous way so that interaction in English can be possible, even with native speakers.

- To produce clear and detailed messages in a wide range of topics. To express one’s opinion about a topic, exposing vantages and disadvantages of different options.

- To understand and explain principal ideas of texts about specific or abstract topics, including texts which belong to specific semantic fields, for example, to the professional semantic field.

 

Methodology:    

This course is given in class, so you must attend classes. Its aim is to improve understanding and expression through practicing everyday situations about one’s personal and professional life.

 

Evaluation:    

80% for attending classes and a final test (oral exam).

 

Notes:    

Requirement: you must have advanced level of English. Students who don’t prove to have this level may do an oral level test.

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