Spanish A2 course

Spanish syllabusA2: learning goals

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A2.1: Holiday plans:

1. Describe your holiday plans
2. Create a travel itinerary
3. Travel to the Balearic Islands: Mallorca and Ibiza
4. Prepositions: "desde" and "hasta"

A2.2: Packing your luggage:

1. Name different types of luggage.
2. Describe what you have packed and why.
3. What does a pilgrim carry in their rucksack?
4. Irregular verbs in the present perfect

A2.3: Book your accomodation:

1. Book and reserve a room.
2. Vocabulary about different room types.
3. Contact a hotel with questions.
4. El Albergue de San Antón: A refuge on the Camino de Santiago
5. Affirmative Informal Imperative: "tú" y "vosotros"

A2.4: At the airport and in the plane.:

1. Book your flight tickets.
2. Check in for your flight.
3. Follow safety instructions.
4. Barajas Airport: Gateway to Madrid
5. Formal affirmative imperative: "usted" y "ustedes"

A2.5: Rent your transportation:

1. Rent a car, bike or scooter.
2. Manage your car insurance and deposit.
3. Pick up and return your transportation.
4. Transport in Spain
5. The prepositions 'por' and 'para'

A2.6: At the hotel:

1. Do your hotel check-in and check-out.
2. Ask for information during your stay.
3. El Camino de Santiago: Accommodation in hostels
4. The negative imperative: regular verbs

A2.7: As a Tourist in the City:

1. Vocabulary on monuments and tourist activities.
2. Reserve tickets for a common tourist activity.

A2.8: Holiday disaster?:

1. Manage unexpected situations during your stay.
2. Ask for help and report problems during your holidays.
3. Mass tourism
4. The negative imperative: irregular verbs

A2.9: Visit the countryside:

1. Learn the names of the farm animals.
2. Describe what you see in the countryside.
3. The fighting bull: a tradition in Spanish culture
4. The difference between "por qué" and "porque"

A2.10: Walking in the forest:

1. Common animals and plants in the forest.
2. Talk about your Sunday walk in the forest.
3. Frank of the Jungle: the adventurer of the wild fauna
4. "Lo" + adjective

A2.11: At the flowershop:

1. Learn the basic flowers' names.
2. Choose flowers at the flower shop.
3. The carnation: the national flower of Spain
4. The relative "que"

A2.12: Star watching:

1. Common celestial objects.
2. Express admiration and disgust.
3. The salt flats of Torrevieja
4. "Qué" + adjective/adverb

A2.13: On safari:

1. Talk about the landscapes of Africa
2. The African animals
3. The Tabernas Desert: the Spanish Hollywood
4. Irregular comparatives (mejor, peor, mayor, menor)

A2.14: Waste management and ecology:

1. Recycling and daily ecology.
2. Managing household waste.
3. The Oceanográfico de Valencia
4. The impersonal pronoun "se"

A2.15: Wind directions:

1. The wind directions.
2. Describing the seas and the map of the planet.
3. The Tagus and the Ebro: the largest rivers in Spain
4. The prepositions of place: "a, de, desde,..."

A2.16: Hiking and mountains:

1. Vocabulary about mountain landscapes.
2. Preparing a hiking trip.
3. The Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada
4. Possessive adjectives after the noun

A2.17: What a surprise:

1. Describe actions that just happened.
2. Express surpises.
3. "The Orphanage": do you dare to enter?
4. "Acabar de" + infinitive: express a recently completed action.

A2.18: What did just happen?:

1. Describing events that have happened in the recent past
2. The Christmas Lottery: An unforgettable event
3. Temporal expressions (A while ago, this week, this month,...)

A2.19: Childhood and memories:

1. Talk about distant past and describe memories
2. Talk about your childhood
3. "Kids on the Beach": the Portrait of Youth, Innocence, and the Past
4. The imperfect past tense of regular verbs

A2.20: Timeline:

1. Situate events on the timeline.
2. Indicate specific moment in the past.
3. The Spanish Civil War: a historical moment
4. The simple past: regular verbs
5. The simple past tense: irregular verbs

A2.21: Through the decades:

1. Explore the lifestyles through the decades
2. The 70s, 80s, 90s => changes in society/fashion/lifestyle
3. Temporal expressions with the imperfect past and the preterite past

A2.22: Stories and fairy tales:

1. Tell about simple stories and fairytails.
2. Situate events in the past.
3. "Pain and Glory": Rediscovering the Past
4. The imperfect tense or the preterite tense?

A2.23: Celebrity gossip:

1. Describe celebreties.
2. Talk about finished and ongoing events of the past.
3. Pablo Picasso: The talented artist from Málaga
4. Past tenses (summary)

A2.24: Going on an exchange:

1. Talk about doing an exchange
2. Organising your stay abroad
3. University exchange in Spain: the most sought-after destinations
4. Expressing the positive and the negative

A2.25: Hire me:

1. Create and send your curriculum
2. Search for and find a job
3. 2008 Economic Crisis: changes in the employment situation
4. Direct object pronouns

A2.26: Job interview:

1. Performing a job interview
2. Indirect object
3. "El Método": A Deadly Interview
4. The indirect object pronouns

A2.27: Teamwork:

1. Vocabulary about teams and roles
2. Gining orders with indirect object
3. The tradition of the “Castells”: human towers
4. The imperative + indirect object

A2.28: Office and meetings:

1. Learn basic debating vocabulary
2. Express agreement and disagreement
3. Work meetings and coffee
4. Expressing agreement and disagreement

A2.29: Remote work or the office?:

1. Daily office vocabulary
2. Remote work vocabulary
3. Telecommuting: a new way of living
4. The difference between "mucho" and "muy"

A2.30: Opinions and negotiations:

1. Express your opinion
2. Learn basic phrases to discuss viewpoints
3. Are there hierarchies within Spanish companies?
4. How to express opinions?

A2.31: Organisation and delegation:

1. Vocabulary on organisational hierarchy
2. Giving orders
3. The art of delegating: the Fallas of Valencia
4. Combining direct and indirect objects

A2.32: Bucket list:

1. Talk about your bucket list and future plans
2. The Camino de Santiago: A dream come true
3. El futuro simple: los verbos regulares

A2.33: Family plans:

1. Talk about plans and ambitions for the future
2. Talk about your relationships and family plans
3. The importance of family in Spanish culture
4. The futuro simple: irregular verbs

A2.34: Assuming and guessing:

1. Learn the words to make assumptions and guesses
2. Talk about your assumptions
3. Learn the vocabulary to express things that are uncertain
4. "La Colmena": A World of Hidden Secrets
5. El futuro simple: expressing probability

A2.35: My dream life:

1. Describe your ideal life
2. Don Quijote de la Mancha: Between Windmills and Dreams
3. Indefinite pronouns that replace a noun

A2.36: Education and graduation:

1. Talk about your future educational plans
2. The University of Salamanca: the oldest in Spain
3. Future Time Expressions

A2.37: When I grow up...:

1. Talk about what you wanted to be when you were a child
2. The Princes of Asturias: the Crown of Spain
3. Nouns and their gender

A2.38: How does your future look?:

1. Describe the activities you will be doing in the future
2. Talk about the flexibility you have about your future
3. Spain: one of the countries with the highest life expectancy
4. The verb "estar"+ gerund for talking about the future

A2.39: My lifestyle:

1. Talk about your current life situation and lifestyle
2. Talk about things you have been doing for some time now
3. Where do Spaniards live: in houses or flats?
4. The verbs 'llevar/seguir' + gerund

A2.40: Gastronomy:

1. Learn about gastronomy vocabulary
2. Learn famous dishes that you order at a bar
3. La tortilla de patata: what makes it special?
4. El condicional simple: expressing consequences of hypothetical situations

A2.41: Healthy food and habits:

1. Talk about healthy eating habits
2. Olive oil
3. El condicional simple: to express the intention to do something

A2.42: Sustainable transport:

1. Learn to talk about green ways of transportation
2. The bike lanes and pedestrian areas in Spain
3. El condicional simple: expressions for giving advice

A2.43: In my free time:

1. Talk about what you do during your free time
2. Talk about work-life balance
3. What do Spaniards do in their free time?
4. Prepositional phrases: talking about activities

A2.44: Look how small!:

1. Learn to talk with diminutives
2. How to say something is small, cute or familiar
3. The accents in Spain
4. The diminutives: suffixes (-ito, -illo, -ico, -iño...)

A2.45: Exercise and lifestyle:

1. Talk about the benefits of exercising and sports
2. Talk about your daily exercise routines
3. The outdoor fitness revolution in the cities of Spain
4. The conjunctions ("y, pero, o, así que, entonces")