Beginning Spanish Language

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

1. Understand and produce short, simple texts relevant to personal life (oral and written).
2. Participate effectively in short, everyday conversations.
3. Describe and narrate, and express opinions.
4. Expand vocabulary related to topics of personal interest.

UNIT CONTENTS 

1 Hello, how are you?
- Introducing yourself and others
- Identifying people
- Saying hello and goodbye
- Talking about causes
- Expressing objectives
- Gender and number
- Interrogatives: What? How? Who?
- Demonstratives
- Present indicative (regular verbs)
- Present tense of the verbs "to be" and "to be"
- Reflexive verbs
- Para que and porque (in order to)
- Letters (alphabet) and numbers
- Vocabulary for the class

2 Where are you from?
- Talking about origin and provenance
- Talking about age
- Talking about profession or activity
- Interrogatives: Where? What?
- Prepositions: de, en…
- Present indicative (irregular verbs)
- Names of professions and activities.
- Nationalities.

3 What time?
- Talking about everyday activities
- Asking and telling the time
- Placing events in time and space
- Making appointments
- Present indicative (habitual actions)
- Prepositions: a, de, en
- Estar + gerund
- Verbs quedar/quedarse
- Days of the week, months, hours, parts of the day.

4 The square is in the center of the city
- Placing in space
- Asking for and giving directions
- Talking about the weather and temperature
- Interrogatives: Where?
- There is/is to locate.
- Indefinite tenses: Many, enough, few… Very/much
- Imperative.
- Verbs ir/ seguir/ girar/coger…
- Words related to the city.
- The weather.
- Seasons of the year.

5 C/ Castilla, nº 4
- Talking about the address
- Describing places
- Making comparisons
- There is//to be
- Comparative structures:
more/less…than//as…as
- Vocabulary about the house
- Ordinal numerals: first, second, third…

6 This is my little sister
- Talking about kinship
- Talking about marital status
- Talking about possession
- Describing people
- Possessives
- To be and to be to express marital status
- Verbs to be, to be, to carry, to have, to describe
- The family
- Marital statuses
- Physical and character descriptions
- Clothing and accessories

7 How much is it?
- Selecting and identifying objects
- Describing objects
- Talking about the usefulness of things
- Talking about price
- Talking about quantities
- Talking with a salesperson
- Interrogatives: Which/which ones/what
- Verbs: to be
- Noun structures for identification: the one on the right/the one behind/that one over there/the one with the pictures/the green one...
- Stores: sizes, weights, measurements, products, packaging...
- Adjectives for describing objects

8 I love Salamanca
- Expressing tastes and preferences
- Talking about the future
- Talking about plans and projects
- Making proposals and suggestions
- Verbs like to like, to love, to want...
- Stressed/unstressed pronouns
- The future
- Means of transportation

9 My head hurts
- Talking about pain
- Talking about one's physical and mental state
- Expressing sensations and feelings
- Expressing needs
- Making recommendations
- Giving advice
- Verbs: to hurt, to find oneself, to feel, to be...
- Periphrasis: have to + infinitive; need + infinitive; must + infinitive.
- Affirmative and negative imperatives
- Body parts
- Words to describe one's physical and mental state

10 I think that...
- Asking permission
- Asking if something is allowed in a place
- Expressing an opinion
- Justifying an opinion
- Showing agreement and disagreement
- Translating another's words
- Reacting to the words of others
- Verbs to believe, to think, to seem... + indicative
- Expressions: it's good; it's fine; I find it interesting... + infinitive.
- Verbs to say, to ask... + indicative
- Be impersonal
- Words related to studies

11 Yesterday I went to the movies with my friends
- Talking about past actions
- Simple past tense
- Perfect past tense
- Indefinite/perfect contrast
- Past markers

12 My house was…
- Talking about common actions in the past
- Describing people and places in the past
- Imperfect past tense
- Indefinite/imperfect contrast
- The verb "soler" (to be used to).
- Frequency markers