Thank you for participating in the conversation exchange programme, thanks to which foreign students will get to know better our country and our language and Catalan students will get to know better other languages and other cultures, and you all will form yourself more as persons and will extend your personal relationships and your vision of the world. Because learning is above all getting to know, and getting to know is above all learning to love! We absolutely leave to your will how to organise your conversation exchange —i.e., when and where you will meet your partner and what you will talk about—, but in case this could help you, we suggest you to exchange at least twelve hours of conversation (six in one language and six in the other one), which you can structure in six two-hour sessions, the first hour in a language and the second in the other one. Also just in case it could help, we give you below a list of six blocks of subjects from which you might start your conversation, and we are sure that afterwards your respective way of being and your vital experiences will guide your meetings. Have a nice exchange experience, and if at the end you tell us how was it all, we will really appreciate it, and this will no doubt help us to improve the programme in the coming years.
1. INTRODUCING HIMSELF/HERSELF AND EXPRESSING IDEAS Saying hello and goodbye. Introducing himself/herself. The parts of the body.
2. EXPRESSING TIME AND SPACE Expressing time: the days of the
week, the parts of the day, the months and the seasons, the years and the
centuries), expressing the time. Expressing the space: continents, countries,
cities and other names of places in our geographical setting. The weather
and the different meteorological phenomena.
3. DAILY LIFE AND SOCIETY Daily habits (getting up, eating,
brushing your teeth...) Cuisine and different concepts related: the table,
cutlery, tablecloth, drinks... The family: its members, main family habits,
my family.
4. AMOUNTS AND QUANTITIES Counting, expressing amounts of money. Expressing
numeric amounts.
5. LIFE IN THE CITY Names of the main kinds of streets, different transportation
means in the city, kinds of shops and opening hours (bars, restaurants, tobacconists,
supermarkets...), main leisure areas in the city...
6. FREE TIME Culture and traditions, use of time, hobbies, going out at night,
main monuments and cities, places you have been to or you would like to go
to...