Course Overview
Pre-A1 Starters Knowledge of Spanish is required for the conversation module. Our students will begin to speak Spanish and learn to express needs, understand simple phrases intended to satisfy immediate needs on regular basis related to our routines and developing activities.
We will enhance basic enunciation, vocabulary and syntax.
Functional Contents
What You’ll Learn How to
- Compare people, objects, places, situations and actions
- Refer to habitual or current actions
- Express and ask for opinions about someone or something
- Express and ask for agreement and disagreement
- Corroborate and deny other people’s information
- Express and ask for taste and pleasure
- Express and ask for satisfaction and desire
- Express and ask preferences
- Express and ask for desire and need
- Order something in a public establishment
- Ask about the price of an object
Grammar Contents
- Accent and rhythm. syllabic division
- Differentiation and use of capital letters
- Recognition of the main punctuation marks
- General uses of the definite and indefinite article
- Temporary markers
- Qualifying adjective
- Nationalities
- Comparisons of superiority and inferiority
- Demonstratives adjectives
- Possessives adjectives
- Indefinite and quantitative articles
- Use of the most frequent interrogative particles: what/which/who…
- Formation and agreement of the most frequently used ordinal and cardinal numbers
- Weights and measurements
- Present indicative tense of the most frequent regular and irregular verbs.
- Use present tense as imperative.
- Most frequent reflexive verbs
- Verbs “Gustar” and “Parecer”
- Introduction of verbal infinitive periphrases: have to, go to, want, be able to, need…
- Adverbs: quantity, affirmation, denial, manner, time and place
- Prepositions and prepositive phrases (a/de/para/en/con…)
- Temporal references
- Expression of time (only for display and recognition), days of the week, months, date, season of the year
- Subject-verb agreement and subject attribute. Order of placement of sentence elements
- Causal and final sentences (porque, para + infinitive…)
- Most used abbreviations
TARGETED AUDIENCE
- Pre-A1 Starters
- Students with basic expressions
REQUIREMENTS
- Pre-A1 Starters
MATERIAL INCLUDED
- Virtual books and exercises
- Access to our Workbook online Campus
- Google Drive Whiteboard
