Spanish for foreigners - Course content
Intensive and Semi-intensive Course Level 1
30 - 33 hours
General objectives
Students will learn how to communicate in Spanish using the basic structures of the language.
Functions
- Greetings, introducing and talking about yourself. Name, surname age date and place of birth, nationality, address, education, marital status, telephone number
- Filling in forms
- Spelling
- Describing objects, people, places, physical characteristics, clothes etc.
- Talking about the day, time and weather
- Going shopping, reserving a room in a hotel, going to a restaurant etc.
- Talking about your family
Structures
- Alphabet (pronunciation)
- Jobs, nationalities
- Adjectives (gender and number)
- Definite and indefinite articles
- House vocabulary
- Clothes
- Colours
- Feelings
- Numbers
- Time
- Dates (days of the week, months, seasons)
- Family
- Food and drink
- House vocabulary
- Verbs to be (ser and estar)
- Interrogative adverbs
- Verb to have (tener)
- There is and there are (hay)
- Very / a lot (muy and mucho)
- Prepositions of place
- Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
- Verb to want (querer)
Activities
- Introducing partners
- Where is it?
- Drawing dictation
- Memory game "a crazy room"
- Compare pictures. What is there in your picture?
- Puzzles with the verbs ser and estar
- Shopping game
- Mini-theatre: real situations (in a restaurant, in a shop...)
- Useful questions
- Understanding other people
- At what time…?
- Cassette / Video / DVD work
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