Course Overview
Acquisition of conversational skills and communication strategies to maintain dialogues regarding past and future events. The student will be able to read general texts and simple literary texts, as well as write letters and essays on general aspects of daily life.
Functional Contents
What You’ll Learn How to
- Talk about the past
- Express frequent actions.
- Describe past situations.
- Express an action that occurred in a completed unit of time.
- Talk about an action that happened only once.
- Describe the situation or circumstances in which an event occurred.
- Narrate past events, biographies, personal experiences.
- Express a past action preceding another past action.
- Express the duration of an action that began in the past and continues in the present
- Express probability
- Express moods: joy, sadness and surprise
- Give information about a place
- Ask and give cultural information
- Make comparisons: highlight one thing among several.
- Express wishes and plans
- Sequence future activities
- Express a project in the future
- Congratulations and social wishes.
- Ask and give cultural information
- Describe a place
- Request the veracity of information.
- Talk about personal relationships
- Be interested in someone and their life.
- Express the impression that a person makes on us
Grammar Contents
- Uses of the past: Indefinido, Imperfecto, Perfecto and Pluscuamperfecto.
- Probability periphrasis
- Verbs with preposition
- Verbs that express a change of mood
- Present subjunctive for the expression of wishes
- Temporary markers
- Beginning and duration of an action (ago, since, since)
- Actions that happened only once (one day, once, that day…)
- Actions that happened with some frequency (usually many days, sometimes…)
- Express a project in the future (within…)
- Discursive connectors
- Prepositions
- Quantifiers
- Exclamatory phrases
- Sentence constructions
- Comparisons: relative superlative
TARGETED AUDIENCE
- Elementary Students
REQUIREMENTS
- A2 Elementary
MATERIAL INCLUDED
- Virtual books and exercises
- Access to our Workbook online Campus
- Google Drive Whiteboard
