Key Competences Level 2 for Vocational Qualifications involving Languages: Communication in Spanish, Mathematical Competence and Communication in a Foreign Language (English)

MODULE 1. SPANISH LANGUAGE SKILLS

TEACHING UNIT 1. COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE

1. The nature and elements of communication
2. Language, tongue and speech:
3. Differences between spoken and written communication

TEACHING UNIT 2. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE USE OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

1. Statements. Characteristics and types. The difference between clauses and phrases.
2. Types of sentences
3. Phrases. Types of phrases (noun, prepositional, verb, adjectival and adverbial)
4. Subject and predicate. Agreement.
5. Verbal complements.
6. Compound sentences: juxtaposition, coordination, subordination. Linking words and connectors.
7. Use of vocabulary in spoken and written expression
8. Using the spelling rules

TEACHING UNIT 3. ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Verbal communication and social interaction.
2. Types of oral production
3. Development of language skills in listening, speaking and conversation:
4. the communicative intent.

TEACHING UNIT 4. WRITTEN WORK

1. Written communication. Written work as a source of information and learning.
2. Types of written texts
3. Development of language skills for understanding and writing different types of text:
4. (letters, applications, CVs)

TEACHING UNIT 5. TECHNIQUES FOR SEARCHING FOR, PROCESSING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION

1. Consulting information from various sources (indexes, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, glossaries, the internet and other sources of information)
2. Planning, editing and presenting texts. Word processors
3. Presentation of the texts in accordance with the rules of grammar, spelling and typography.

MODULE 2. MATHEMATICAL LITERACY

TEACHING UNIT 1. USING NUMBERS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

1. Decimal positional number system.
2. Natural numbers.
3. Divisibility of natural numbers.
4. Whole numbers.
5. Recognition and conceptualisation in real-life contexts.
6. Fractions and decimals in everyday situations.
7. Percentages.
8. How to use the calculator.

TEACHING UNIT 2. USING MEASUREMENTS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

1. Currency units.
2. The decimal metric system.

TEACHING UNIT 3. APPLYING GEOMETRY TO PROBLEM-SOLVING

1. Basic elements of plane geometry.
2. Cartesian coordinates.
3. Polygons.
4. The circumference and the circle.
5. Geometric shapes: prisms and pyramids.
6. Solving geometric problems involving the estimation and calculation of lengths, areas and volumes.
7. Use of computer tools to construct and simulate relationships between geometric elements.

TEACHING UNIT 4. APPLICATION OF ALGEBRA TO PROBLEM-SOLVING

1. Algebraic language for representing and communicating everyday situations: situations involving change.
2. First-degree equations with one unknown.

TEACHING UNIT 5. APPLICATIONS OF DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY IN PROBLEM-SOLVING

1. Compilation of data from various sources into tables of values.
2. Basic data collection techniques (surveys, observation, measurement).
3. Two-way tables and frequency tables.
4. Graphical representation of data. Ways of representing information: types of statistical graphs (bar charts, pictograms, frequency polygons, pie charts).
5. Collecting and using information to produce graphs and tables of data relating to objects, phenomena and situations in the environment.
6. Measures of central tendency: arithmetic mean, mode, median and range.
7. An assessment of the importance of critically analysing the information presented through statistical charts.
8. The random nature of certain experiences
9. The role of chance in everyday life. Estimating the probability of an event.
10. Formulating and testing conjectures about the behaviour of simple random phenomena at an intuitive level.

MODULE 3. COMMUNICATION IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ENGLISH)

TEACHING UNIT 1. THE USE OF LINGUISTIC FUNCTIONS AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS IN ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SITUATIONS

1. Use of the English language for:
2. Recognition of sociolinguistic and cultural aspects. Formal and informal uses
3. Use of vocabulary in spoken and written expression:

TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMATICAL AND PHONETIC ELEMENTS IN THE USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1. Sentence structure
2. Nouns
3. Adjectives
4. Adverbs
5. Determinants
6. Pronouns
7. Use of verb tenses
8. Description and comparison of habits and lifestyles with current actions
9. Expressing past events linked to the present or to an earlier past
10. Making predictions and expressing intentions. Expressing certainty and probability
11. Expressing preferences and opinions. Making and responding to invitations
12. Formulating hypotheses and giving advice. Conditional clauses (type II)
13. Conveying other people’s opinions and ideas. Indirect speech. Temporal expressions
14. Expressing processes and changes. Passive voice
15. Use of phonological and spelling rules

TEACHING UNIT 3. ORAL PRODUCTION IN ENGLISH

1. Oral presentations in English

TEACHING UNIT 4. WRITTEN WORK IN ENGLISH

1. Works written in English