Description
Develop your Legal Spanish through a practical employment law scenario involving dismissal, compensation and settlement negotiations.
This complete C1 Legal Spanish lesson explores the language of employment disputes through the case of an employee challenging a dismissal. Students develop specialist vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension, formal legal language and professional negotiation skills.
The lesson introduces essential employment law vocabulary such as despido improcedente, indemnización, acuerdo de salida, reclamación, demanda laboral, tribunal laboral, preaviso and negociación.
Students work with a detailed case involving a multinational company, a dismissed executive, a legal claim, negotiations over compensation and an eventual confidential settlement.
The lesson includes:
• Specialist Legal Spanish vocabulary
• Employment law terminology
• Vocabulary development and word formation
• Reading comprehension
• Multiple choice activities
• Interpretation of legal expressions
• Legal collocations
• Formal connectors used in legal drafting
• Practice with expressions such as siempre que, de conformidad con, en virtud de, con arreglo a, sin perjuicio de and al objeto de
• Listening comprehension on dismissal under Argentine employment law
• Dictation practice
• Professional oral negotiation
• Complete answer key
• Full listening transcript
The final speaking activity places students in the role of either the company’s lawyer or the employee’s lawyer. They negotiate compensation, notice, confidentiality, waiver of claims and the terms of a possible settlement.
Level: C1
Format: PDF
Length: 9 pages
Answers: Included
Listening transcript: Included
Language: Spanish
Focus: Legal Spanish, Employment Law, Professional Negotiation
Please note: An internet connection is required to access the external listening input used for the listening comprehension activities. The external input itself is not included in the PDF.
This resource is designed for Spanish language learning and does not constitute legal or professional advice.
