BEGINNER SPANISH COURSE LEVEL 2-3
Part 2: Beginner 2 – 3 Level
Place: Playa Jacó
Program weeks: 3
Program days: Monday – Friday
Program hours: from 8am to 12pm
Total: 20 hours
Description of the course
Beginner’s course I & II has been designed to learn introductory Spanish. The primary objective of this course is to offer students the opportunity to acquire communication skills in what we call “survival Spanish”. Functions include: asking/giving directions, using appropriate greetings, introductions, and courtesy expressions as well as the ability to communicate in different situations such as visiting a bank, restaurant, or other public places. Furthermore students should be able to give their personal information, and talk about personal preferences and activities in growing details. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to narrate a routine in the present tense, using a more ample vocabulary, and narrate some activities in the past and in the future in a simple way.
- Specific Objectives:
During the course the student will be prepared to:
01.Communicate on the telephone.
02.Put actions in order according to sequence.
03.Talk about the present and usual activities.
04.Talk about a daily routine.
05.Talk about the past.
06.Communicate in different situations such as in a hotel, in a store, at the airport, etc.
07.Express degrees of quality and characteristics.
08.Make the difference between current events and actions and usual events and actions.
09.Express the continuity of a situation or action.
10.Place situations in time.
11.Give orders and advices.
12.Express that something or someone stands out from the group.
- Grammatical Contents:
01.Reflexive verbs in present tense.
02.Some irregular verbs in present tense.
03.Expressions of time: antes de and después de + infinitive.
04.Uses of the preposition de.
05.Regular verbs – simple past tense.
06.Irregular verbs – simple past tense.
07.Uses of the preposition en.
08.Absolute superlative with –ísim and the relative superlative.
09.Phrases used to place situations in the past.
10.Gerund and the present.
11.Forms used to express continuity (seguir and continuar + gerund).
12.Direct object pronouns.
13.Indirect object pronouns.
14.Forms used to express place in time.
15.Imperative with usted and ustedes.
16.Adverbs ending in –mente.
17.The preposition para to indicate purpose (with persons and infinitives).
18.Adverbs of place.
- Lexical Contents:
01.Differences between sentir and sentirse, pedir and preguntar.
02.Expressions for talking on the telephone.
03.Verbs of daily activities.
04. Parts of the body.
05.Adverbs of place.
06.Expressions for communicating in a hotel.
07.Differences between saber/ conocer, ya/ todavía, quedar/ caber.
08.Words that indicate a specific moment in the past.
09.Adverbs of quantity.
10.Verbs with preposition such as: terminar de, tratar de, dejar de, empezar a, aprender a, pensar en, etc.
11.Expressions for communicating in a airport.
12.Expressions with haber.
13.Expressions for communicating in a store.
- Phonetic Contents:
01.General pronunciation practices based on each student’s needs.
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