SPANISH BEGINNER 3. The THIRD segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 3 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 2 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 3:
COMMUNICATION: Identifying items, expressing needs, buying in shops, asking for products, asking about prices, etc., talking about preferences, talking about physical appearance and personality, expressing and comparing likes, dislikes and interests, asking about likes and dislikes, talking about personal relationships.
GRAMMAR: demonstratives: este/esta/estos/estas, esto, el/la/los + adjective, que + noun, cuál/cuáles, tener que + infinitive, the verbs ir and preferir, the verb gustar, quantifiers (muy, bastante, un poco), possessives, también/tampoco, diacritical accents.
VOCABULARY: numbers over 100, colours, clothes and accessories, objects in daily use, uses of the verb llevar, combinations with the verb ir, family, personality adjectives, music.
PHONETICS: the erre, intonation in questions.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 4.
SPANISH ADVANCED 5. The FITH segment of the comprehensive Advanced level five-course series designed for adult learners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Spanish Advanced 5 level description:
Spanish Advanced 5 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Advanced 4 or possess a similar level of proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Advanced 5:
COMMUNICATION: Talk about a job: qualities, functions, problems and feelings, describe a company, some characteristices of formal witten texts, evaluate past events, talk about unrealized events in teh past and their consequences, make reproaches, convey what others said in the past, talk about skills.
GRAMMAR: The concessive subordinate clauses: aunque, a pesar de, por mucho que..., rephrase: es decir, esto es, o sea..., exemplify: un ejemplo, por ejemplo, a modo de ejemplo, combinations of pronouns: se lo, the past perfect subjunctive, the conditional perfect, some connectors of cause and consequence.
VOCABULARY: Vocabulary fromt eh workplace, lexical cohesion resources, vocabulary from the field of education, vocabulary of biographies and live journies.
Next level: Spanish Fluent 1
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
High-Intermediate 1 level description:This course if ideal for individuals who have completed Spanish Intermediate 5 level or similar. Here is a summary of what students will learn by the end of the end of the High-Intermediate 1 level:
COMMUNICATION: Refer to some news and comment on them. Report the news.
GRAMMAR: Past tenses, the passive voice, impersonal constructions : -se + verb in 3rd person / use of the third person plural, anticipation of the direct object.
VOCABULARY: Verbs to transmit information: manifestar, declara, etc. Means of communications. Politics and history.
Next level: Spanish High-Intermediate 2
This course is ideal for individuals who have completed Spanish High Beginner 4 level or similar. Here's an overview of the topics covered in High Beginner 5:
COMMUNICATION: Talk about habits and circumstances of the past, locate actions in the past and in the present, argue and debate, tell an event in the past, sequence actions, express emotions.
GRAMMAR: Imperfect tense, ya no/todavía, temporary markers for the past, temporary markers for the present, irregular forms for the preterit, contrast between the preterit and the imperfect, forms of the past of estar +gerund, temporary markers to tell stories
VOCABULARY: Historical events, emotions. SPANISH BEGINNER 4. The FOURTH segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 4 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 3 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 4:
COMMUNICATION: Talking about habits, expressing frequency, asking for and giving the time, learning how to get by in bars and restaurants, asking for and giving information about food, talking about eating habits.
GRAMMAR: the presente de indicativo of irregular verbs, pronominal verbs, yo también / yo tampoco/ yo si/ yo no, primero/después/luego, the verbs poner and traer, direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las), uses of de and con.
VOCABULARY: Days of the week, times of day, daily activities, food, ways of cooking, utensils and recipients, typical dishes in Spain and Latin America.
PHONETICS: intonation: narration and enumeration, the che and the jota.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 5.