Spanish A1 course

Spanish syllabusA1: learning goals

Your teacher adapts the learning plan to your needs.

A1.1: Greetings and Farewells:

1. Basic greetings and farewells.
2. Greetings - informal and formal
3. Personal Pronouns (Subject)

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. How to Introduce Yourself in Spain
5. The alphabet
6. The pronunciation

A1.3: Where are you from?:

1. Ask somebody where they are from
2. Say your nationality
3. Spain and its regions
4. The articles in Spanish
5. The Gender of Nouns

A1.4: Numbers and counting:

1. Learn to count
2. Numbers from 1-100
3. The Numbers in The Game of the Goose
4. Cardinal numbers: basics
5. Cardinal numbers: hundreds, thousands, millions
6. Cardinal numbers: tens

A1.5: Family:

1. Talk about family members
2. Describe your family members
3. The family meal
4. Possessive adjectives

A1.6: Saying your age:

1. Asking somebody's age
2. Say how old you are and when your birthday is
3. Birthday traditions in Spain
4. Interrogative words ("Cuánto" and "Cuándo")

A1.7: Professions and studies:

1. Describe your profession
2. Ask somebody's profession
3. Talk about studies
4. University Studies in Spain
5. Interrogative words ("dónde, cuál, qué")

A1.8: Love and friendship:

1. Describe relationships (friendships and the romantic ones)
2. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
3. Conjugation of regular verbs: "-ar, -er, -ir"

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

1. Say the parts of the day
2. Learn the names of the 7 days of the week
3. Sorolla and the Daylight
4. Prepositions: indicating times of the day

A1.10: The weather:

1. Talk about the weather
2. Basic weather vocabulary
3. A Journey through Spain and Its Climates
4. Adjectives derived from a noun

A1.11: Seasons, months and parts of the year:

1. Learn the 4 seasons of the year
2. Learn the names of the 12 months
3. Feeling the Seasons Through Music
4. "Ir + a" + infinitivo

A1.12: Ordinal numbers:

1. Learn the ordinal numbers.
2. Ordinal numbers

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

1. Ask and tell the time
2. Read the clock
3. The Clocks of Dalí
4. How to tell the time?

A1.14: Calendar dates and holidays:

1. The basic dates and holidays
2. Holidays in Spain
3. How are dates formed?

A1.15: Daily food:

1. Name the food that we consume daily.
2. Tell what you eat and drink.
3. What is the Mediterranean Diet?
4. The conjunctions ("y, o,...")

A1.16: Daily routines:

1. Talk about daily routine
2. Daily activities
3. Traditional Spanish Daily Routine
4. Reflexive Verbs and Pronouns

A1.17: Cooking:

1. Basic ingredients for cooking
2. Expressing obligations
3. Spanish tapas
4. Obligations - "hay que, tener que, deber"

A1.18: Asking things:

1. How to ask questions
2. Answering questions
3. Using question words
4. Interrogative Words

A1.19: Prices and money:

1. Vocabulary on money and currencies
2. Payment methods
3. The Peseta - The Old Currency of Spain
4. Adverbs of quantity

A1.20: Grocery shopping:

1. Daily food and drinks
2. Tell what you want at the supermarket
3. At La Boquería Market
4. Stem-changing verbs

A1.21: Clothing:

1. Describe people's clothing
2. Clothing vocabulary
3. The flamenco dress
4. Modal verbs (should, can, want...)

A1.22: Body parts:

1. Get to know the basic body parts
2. Basic health phrases
3. Once upon a time...the human body
4. The plural of nouns

A1.23: Physical appearance:

1. Describe people's physical appearance
2. The agreement of adjectives
3. "Las Meninas" by Velázquez
4. The agreement of adjectives

A1.24: Colours:

1. Basic and compound colours names
2. Describing objects
3. Expressing likes and dislikes
4. Colours of Spain: The Spanish flag
5. Expressing likes and dislikes: I (don't) like

A1.25: Emotions and feelings:

1. Talk about your feelings.
2. Express your emotions.
3. Platero y yo: a story of friendship
4. Difference between ser and estar

A1.26: Senses and perceiving:

1. Describe taste, smell, sight, sound and touch
2. Compare things
3. Five senses in Spain
4. Comparative Adjectives

A1.27: Shapes and forms:

1. Describe forms and shapes.
2. Describe basic objects.
3. Spanish Architecture: Forms and Design
4. Demonstrative adjectives

A1.28: Character and personality:

1. Learn to describe the character of people.
2. Talk about personalities.
3. What are Spaniards like?
4. Relative superlatives

A1.29: Physical states and sensations:

1. Express basic needs.
2. Tell your physical state.
3. The siesta: rest and well-being in Spain
4. The past participle as an adjective

A1.30: Health and wellbeing:

1. Basic health vocabulary.
2. Express sickeness and pain.
3. Basic medical vocabulary.
4. Adverbs of manner

A1.31: Parts of the house:

1. The rooms in a house
2. Describe the different parts of your house
3. The Houses of Gaudí
4. There is/are + an indefinite article

A1.32: Furniture:

1. Basic house furniture vocabulary
2. Describe your house
3. La Alacena
4. "Haber" vs "Estar": indefinite article vs definite article

A1.33: Tableware:

1. List of tableware
2. Setting up the table
3. Kitchen utensils and tableware
4. The Charm of the Botijo
5. Prepositions of place: "en, sobre, entre,..."

A1.34: Household appliances:

1. Household appliances
2. Electric applicances
3. La Mesa Camilla y El Brasero
4. The irregular verbs in the first person present tense

A1.35: Housing and accommodation:

1. Learn the different types of accommodations
2. Learn to buy and rent
3. Historic Accommodations - Los Paradores
4. Connect clauses with adverbs: "entonces, porque, también, tampoco"

A1.36: In the garden:

1. Learn the names of common plants and flowers in the garden.
2. Verbs related to gardening and growing vegetables.
3. The Orange Tree Garden in Seville
4. Estar + gerundio

A1.37: Taking care of the pet:

1. Learn the basic animals (pets)
2. Love for pets in Spain
3. Comparison and reciprocity: "este..otro / uno..otro"

A1.38: Everyday services:

1. Talk about everyday services
2. Basic city services
3. The National Library of Spain
4. The participle as an adjective and usage with "estar"

A1.39: Ordering food and dining out:

1. Have basic conversations in a restaurant
2. Reserve a table and order something from the menu
3. Ferran Adrià and the restaurant El Bulli
4. "Haber" + participio (el pretérito perfecto)

A1.40: Sports and exercise:

1. Learn the sports
2. Talk about the sports you practice
3. Real Madrid and Barça: Spanish football
4. Time adverbs (frequency and duration)

A1.41: Describing hobbies:

1. Talk about your hobbies
2. Describe activities that you enjoy
3. Weekend plans in Spanish cities
4. Weekend plans in Spanish cities
5. Time adverbs

A1.42: Transportation:

1. Learn how to use the public transportation
2. Different ways of transportation
3. The high-speed train: Spain's AVE
4. Prepositions of place: movement and location

A1.43: Asking for and giving directions:

1. Ask for directions in a city
2. Giving directions to a stranger
3. The signs of the Camino de Santiago
4. Place expressions

A1.44: Music and art:

1. Talk about music and art
2. Different art forms
3. The Prado Museum
4. Describing preferences