Spanish Elementary Course A2.1 (15 hours of frontal lessons)
Week | Contents |
WEEK 1 |
How to express difficulties in learning Spanish. How to describe someone’s personality. Irregular forms of past tense “pretérito indefinido”; lo (que); adjectives in -or. Use of hace, desde, desde hace. How to describe a particular disease or disorder; talking about symptoms; being in a pharmacy. Parts of the body. Adverbs in -mente; demasiado, muy bastante, poco. Use of adjectives and adverbs |
WEEK 2 |
Describing actions in the past; talking about routine in the past. “Imperfecto” past tense. Use of complements in the past (a los 16 años, en los años 80…) Talking about our childhood; telling a story. When to use indefinido and imperfecto. Use of cuando, mientras. |
WEEK 3 |
Writing a story. Revision of imperfecto vs indefinido. Diminutives. Reflexive and not reflexive use of a verb: how the meaning changes. |
WEEK 4 |
Shopping! Indefinitive pronouns. Revision of pronouns of direct and indirect object. Shopping: making a choice, talking about cloths and dresses. Object pronouns in a conversation. |
WEEK 5 |
Use of qué?/cuál? Empezar a, dejarde, seguir+gerund Revision |