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. Starting and ending a conversation.
3. Ask for clarification.
4. Personal pronouns

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
5. The pronunciation

A1.3: Where are you from?:

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

A1.4: Numbers and counting:

1. Learn to count
2. Numbers from 1-100
3. Cardinal numbers: basics
4. Cardinal numbers: hundreds, thousands, millions
5. Cardinal numbers: tens

A1.5: Family:

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

A1.6: Saying your age:

1. Asking somebody's age
2. Say how old you are and when your birthday is
3. Interrogative words: "Cuánto" and "Cuándo"

A1.7: Professions and studies:

1. Describe your profession
2. Ask somebody's profession
3. Talk about studies
4. Interrogative words: "dónde, cuál, qué, por qué"

A1.8: Address and contact details:

1. Asking for and giving contact details.
2. Tell and ask for addresses.
3. Present indicative: regular verbs
4. The zero conditional

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: indicating times of the day

A1.10: The weather:

1. Talk about the weather
2. Basic weather vocabulary
3. Adjectives derived from a noun: "-ado/a, -oso/a, ..."

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. "Ir + a" + infinitivo

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

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

A1.14: Calendar dates and holidays:

1. The basic dates and holidays
2. How are dates formed?

A1.15: Daily food:

1. Name the food that we consume daily.
2. Tell what you eat and drink.
3. The conjunctions: "Y, e, o, ..."

A1.16: Daily routines:

1. Talk about your daily routine.
2. Talk about habits.
3. Reflexive Verbs and Pronouns

A1.17: Cooking and baking:

1. Basic ingredients for cooking
2. Expressing obligations
3. Obligations - "Hay que, tener que, deber"

A1.18: Asking things:

1. Ask and answer questions.
2. Learn the question words.
3. Interrogative words: "¿Qué?, ¿Quién?, ¿Cuál?, ..."

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: "Mucho, poco, bastante,..."

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. Stem-changing verbs: "e → i, e → ie, ..."

A1.21: At the clothing shop:

1. Describe everyday clothing.
2. Ask for availability in a clothing shop.
3. Ask for your size.
4. The modal verbs: "Deber, poder, querer,..."

A1.22: Body parts:

1. Get to know the basic body parts.
2. Basic phrases to describe your health.
3. The plural of nouns

A1.23: Physical appearance:

1. Describe people's physical appearance
2. Use adjectives to describe people.
3. The agreement of adjectives

A1.24: Colours:

1. Describe the colours of common objects.
2. Basic, compound and hair colours.
3. Expressing likes and dislikes: (no) me gusta

A1.25: Emotions and feelings:

1. Express your basic emotions.
2. Describe the emotions of others.
3. Difference between Ser vs Estar

A1.26: Senses and perceiving:

1. Describe taste, smell, sight, sound and touch
2. Compare things
3. Comparative adjectives: "Más + adjetivo + que," ...

A1.27: Shapes and forms:

1. Describe forms and shapes.
2. Describe basic objects.
3. Express preferences.
4. The demonstrative adjectives: "Este, ese, aquel"

A1.28: Character and personality:

1. Learn to describe the character of people.
2. Talk about personalities.
3. Relative superlatives: "El más, la más, los menos, ..."

A1.29: Physical states and sensations:

1. Express what you need.
2. Tell how your body feels.
3. The past participle as an adjective: "-ado, -oso, ..."

A1.30: Sickness and pain:

1. Express sickness and pain.
2. Express your medical condition at the doctor's office.
3. Adverbs of manner

A1.31: Our house:

1. Describe all the rooms and floors of a house.
2. Understand a house rental or sales ad.
3. Haber (Hay) + indefinite article

A1.32: Furniture:

1. Describe the furniture in your house.
2. Use the prepositions of place to indicate the location of furniture.
3. "Haber" vs "Estar": indefinite article vs definite article

A1.33: Tableware:

1. Describe what tableware you need.
2. Setting up the table to receive guests.
3. Prepositions of place: "En, sobre, entre,..."

A1.34: Household appliances:

1. Household and electrical appliances
2. Irregular verbs: "Yo hago, yo pongo, yo doy, ..."

A1.35: Housing and accommodation:

1. Learn the different types of accommodations.
2. Contact a landlord or agency to rent a house.
3. Connectors: "Porque, también, tampoco"

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. Estar + gerundio

A1.37: Your pets:

1. Learn the basic animals (pets)
2. Describe the routines of your pet.
3. Uno vs. Otro

A1.38: Everyday services:

1. Describe the location of services on a map.
2. Ask for the opening hours of a certain service.
3. "Estar" + participle

A1.39: Ordering food and dining out:

1. Ask food from the menu.
2. Reserve a table in a restaurant.
3. "Haber" + participio (el pretérito perfecto)

A1.40: Sports and exercise:

1. Learn the sports
2. Talk about the sports you practice
3. Adverbs of frequency: "Siempre, cada, todos, nunca, etc"...

A1.41: Describing hobbies:

1. Talk about your hobbies
2. Describe activities that you enjoy
3. Adverbs of time: "Ahora, antes, después, luego, etc..."

A1.42: Transportation:

1. Buy a transport ticket.
2. Describe ways of transportation.
3. Prepositions of place: "Ir + en, ir + a, por, hacia, etc..."

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. Expressions of place: "A la izquierda", "A la derecha", "Todo recto", "En el centro"

A1.44: Friday night out:

1. Make plans with your friends for the Friday evening.
2. Invite somebody for an event.
3. Describe preferences: "Preferir, Encantar, Gustar"

A1.45: Music and art:

1. Talk about culture events in the city.
2. Go to the museum, an exposition, musical,...
3. Passive voice with ser + participle
4. Indirect speech: "Decir que"