Dutch A1 course for beginners

Dutch syllabusA1: learning goals

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A1.1: Greetings and Farewells:

1. Basic greetings and farewells.
2. Starting and ending a conversation.
3. Ask for clarification.
4. Personal pronouns (ik, jij, hij,…)

A1.2: Telling your name:

1. Tell your name and ask for the name of somebody
2. Titles and ways of addressing people. (Mister, miss,...)
3. Introduce yourself
4. The alphabet and the pronunciation

A1.3: Where are you from?:

1. Ask somebody where they are from
2. Say your nationality
3. Definite and indefinite articles (de, het, een)
4. The noun (singular & plural)

A1.4: Numbers and counting:

1. Learn to count
2. Numbers from 1-100
3. Cardinal numbers

A1.5: Family:

1. Talk about family members
2. Describe your family members
3. The possessive pronouns (mijn, jouw, zijn,...)
4. Use of praten, spreken, babbelen and kletsen

A1.6: Saying your age:

1. Asking somebody's age
2. Say how old you are and when your birthday is
3. Question words (hoe, hoeveel, waar, wanneer)

A1.7: Professions and studies:

1. Describe your profession
2. Ask somebody's profession
3. Talk about studies
4. Question words (wie, wat, welk(e))

A1.8: Address and contact details:

1. Asking for and giving contact details.
2. Tell and ask for addresses.
3. Present tense: regular verbs
4. Main clauses and yes/no questions

A1.9: Days of the week and parts of the day:

1. Learn the parts of the day.
2. Learn the names of the 7 days of the week
3. Describe your weekly activities.
4. Prepositions of time (in, at, on, before,...)

A1.10: The weather:

1. Talk about the weather
2. Basic weather vocabulary
3. Impersonal verbs

A1.11: Ordinal numbers:

1. Learn the ordinal numbers.
2. Ordinal numbers

A1.12: Seasons, months and parts of the year:

1. Learn the seasons and months.
2. Describe the weather in each season and month.
3. Advanced: tell what you do in what month of the year.
4. Future tense with 'gaan'

A1.13: Telling the time and reading the clock:

1. Ask and tell the time
2. Read the clock
3. How do you tell the time?

A1.14: Calendar dates and holidays:

1. The basic dates and holidays
2. How do you formulate the date?

A1.15: Daily food:

1. Name the food that we consume daily.
2. Tell what you eat and drink.
3. Coordinating conjunctions (en, maar, of, want)

A1.16: Daily routines:

1. Talk about your daily routine.
2. Talk about habits.
3. Reflexive verbs (to wash oneself, to shave)

A1.17: Cooking:

1. Basic ingredients for cooking
2. Expressing obligations
3. Modal verbs (moeten, kunnen, mogen)

A1.18: Asking things:

1. Ask and answer questions.
2. Learn the question words.
3. The pronunciation of ui, ou, eu, oe

A1.19: Prices and money:

1. Talk about money, currencies and payment methods.
2. Ask for and say the price in a shop.
3. Adverbs of quantity (veel, weinig, genoeg,...)

A1.20: Grocery shopping:

1. Write a grocery list for daily food and drinks.
2. Ask a shop assistant about a product in the supermarket.
3. Pronunciation of 'e', 'ee' and 'e'

A1.21: At the clothing shop:

1. Describe everyday clothing.
2. Ask for availability in a clothing shop.
3. Ask for your size.
4. Personal pronouns: object (mij, jou, hem,...)

A1.22: Body parts:

1. Get to know the basic body parts.
2. Basic phrases to describe your health.
3. Commonly used irregular verbs

A1.23: Physical appearance:

1. Describe people's physical appearance
2. Use adjectives to describe people.
3. Adjectives

A1.24: Colours:

1. Describe the colours of common objects.
2. Basic, compound and hair colours.
3. Expressing preferences and dislikes

A1.25: Emotions and feelings:

1. Express your basic emotions.
2. Describe the emotions of others.
3. Prepositions Om, door, aan, naar, met,...

A1.26: Senses and perceiving:

1. Describe taste, smell, sight, sound and touch
2. Compare things
3. Degrees of comparison

A1.27: Shapes and forms:

1. Describe forms and shapes.
2. Describe basic objects.
3. Express preferences.
4. Demonstrative pronouns (deze, die, dit, dat)

A1.28: Character and personality:

1. Learn to describe the character of people.
2. Talk about personalities.
3. Negation

A1.29: Physical states and sensations:

1. Express what you need.
2. Tell how your body feels.
3. Diminutives

A1.30: Sickness and pain:

1. Express sickness and pain.
2. Express your medical condition at the doctor's office.
3. Adverbs Anders, graag, zo, heel,...

A1.31: Our house:

1. Describe all the rooms and floors of a house.
2. Understand a house rental or sales ad.
3. Use of 'er' and 'daar'

A1.32: Furniture:

1. Describe the furniture in your house.
2. Use the prepositions of place to indicate the location of furniture.
3. Pronunciation of "sch", "ch", "g"

A1.33: Tableware:

1. Describe what tableware you need.
2. Setting up the table to receive guests.
3. Prepositions of place (aan, in, onder,...)

A1.34: Household appliances:

1. Household and electrical appliances
2. Indefinite pronouns (ieder, elk, alles, wat, wie, allemaal)

A1.35: Housing and accommodation:

1. Learn the different types of accommodations.
2. Contact a landlord or agency to rent a house.
3. Connecting sentences with dus, omdat, want, ook

A1.36: In the garden:

1. Learn the names of common plants and flowers in the garden.
2. Describe how to take care of each of plants.
3. Are + ing form

A1.37: Your pets:

1. Learn the basic animals (pets)
2. Describe the routines of your pet.
3. Pronunciation of 'ij' and 'ei'

A1.38: Everyday services:

1. Describe the location of services on a map.
2. Ask for the opening hours of a certain service.
3. The past participle with have/be

A1.39: Ordering food and dining out:

1. Ask food from the menu.
2. Reserve a table in a restaurant.
3. Past participles as adjectives

A1.40: Sports and exercise:

1. Learn the sports
2. Talk about the sports you practice
3. Adverbs of frequency (soms, vaak, nooit, ...)

A1.41: Describing hobbies:

1. Talk about your hobbies
2. Describe activities that you enjoy
3. Adverbs of time (nu, dan, morgen...)

A1.42: Transportation:

1. Buy a transport ticket.
2. Describe ways of transportation.
3. Prepositions of direction (door, langs, naar, ...)

A1.43: Asking for and giving directions:

1. Ask for directions in a city
2. Giving directions to a stranger
3. Ask for the existence of a building or service.
4. Imperative

A1.44: Friday night out:

1. Make plans with your friends for the Friday evening.
2. Invite somebody for an event.
3. Use of zullen (suggestion, promise, probability)

A1.45: Music and art:

1. Talk about culture events in the city.
2. Go to the museum, an exposition, musical,...
3. Words with a diaeresis