Objetives

• Start to speak in Spanish
• Express immediate needs in the present
• Understand common idioms
• Describe the environment using easy terms
• have short conversations about everyday and personal aspects
• write simple texts
• Describe past actions

Contents

• Personal pronouns
• Demonstratives
• Articles
• To be verbs (“ser o estar”)
• Present indicative
• Past simple (“pretérito indefinido”)
• Introduction to the future
• Irregular verbs in the past
• Past Imperfect (“pretérito imperfecto”)
• Uses of the infinitive
• Exclamatory sentences
• Basic impersonal uses
• Fluency and socializing in Spanish
• Idioms
• Express need
• Ask for permission, and make inquiries.
• word stress and intonation
• Basic rules of accentuation
• Basic quantifiers

Objectives

• Read easy informative texts
• Read easy literary texts
• write emails and compositions about everyday aspects
• Have conversations suing both the past and future tenses.
• Give detailed information on everyday and personal topics.
• Express oneself fluently enough to get the point across clearly.
• Start to have longer conversations on specific topics

Contents

• Cause and effect
• Probability
• Express feelings and sensations
• Describe a place in detail
• Describe people physically and their character.
• All past indicative tenses
• Verbs like “gustar”
• Verbs with preposition
• Present Subjunctive
• Discursive connectors
• Quantifiers
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Express pros and cons
• Ask for appointments and arrange timetables.
• Write a review
• Argumentative connectors
• basic indirect style
• Impersonal structures
• Speculate about the future
• First conditionals
• Explain linguistic content

Objectives
– Discuss and defend viewpoints
– Learn and use idiomatic expressions
– Read easy informational, literary or technical documents.
– Learn about the different varieties of Spanish and their origin.
– Be able to speak on the phone about common or technical topics
– Ask for detailed information and then explain it to a third party.

Contents
– Use of prefixes and suffixes
– doble gender adjectives
– Morphology of the indicative verbs
– Second and third conditionals. The use of the subjuntive for past hypothesis.
– Social standards, social behaviour and taboos in Spanish speaking countries.
– Persuade and convince
– Oral and written registers
– Good definitions
– Make polite suggestions
– Uses of the imperfect subjunctive
– Advanced reported speech: tense changes.
– Subordinate sentences
– Use of “lo” + adjective.
– Impersonal language
– How to use the participle and the gerund
– Common erros and dialectical accepted uses..