Elementary Cycle: Level 1 and Level 2

Students will acquire basic knowledge of the Spanish language enabling them to:

• Provide personal data and information in real life situations (labor interview, medical interview, admissions to courses, etc.);
• Manage in everyday situations (finding spaces and locating people, buying and selling, expressing likes and dislikes);
• Understand and actively participate in conversations about simple topics (food, the city, the time, the weather, the house, clothes, family relations);
• Express relatively simple situations, both orally and in writing.

Functions
. Introducing himself and others
. Interchanging personal information
. Speaking of and describing his or her family
. Giving simple instructions
. Identifying objects
. Describing places
. Interchanging place information
. Asking and telling the time
. Making future plans

Grammar
. Phonetics
. Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives
. Regular and Irregular verbs in the Present Mood
. “Estar” + adjectives
. “Estar” + gerunds
. Direct and indirect object pronouns
. Infinitive and Gerund expressions
. Going to Future
. Number and Gender
. Articles
. The introduction of the imperative
. “Hace” + the weather
. The verb “haber”: hay -there is-
. Prepositions for verbs of movement and place
. The introduction of reflexive verbs
. “Tener” + que Ej.: tener frío to be as in –to be cold-

Mandatory Readings: - Curso de español para extranjeros. Nivel 1. CUI.

Functions
. Describing people
. Speaking in detail about habitual actions
. Showing interest in the actions of others
. Criticizing and making compliments
. Retelling specific facts in the past

Grammar
. Qualifying adjectives, superlatives, direct object, qué y cuál –what and which
. Verbs in the present tense
. Regular Perfect Preterit
. Irregular verbs in the Perfect Preterit “estar, ir, dar, poder, venir, decir”
. Imperfect Preterit
. Time adverbs: yesterday, today, tomorrow

Mandatory Readings: - Curso de español para extranjeros. Nivel 2. CUI