Designed for students with no prior knowledge of Spanish, the Beginner I course teaches how to communicate in simple everyday situations.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- give greetings and goodbyes to different people of different ages
- introduce yourself or someone else
- recite and recognize letters of the Spanish alphabet
- readily recognize and use the numbers from 1 to 100
- tell someone the date of your birthday
- ask questions to gather information about someone else
- name the days of the week and months of the year
- tell someone your nationality or that of another person
- talk about your favorite or least favorite pastimes and those of others, as well
- tell time
- describe themselves and others using ser and adjectives that describe personality and physical characteristics
- discuss the world around them using the calendar, clock, and expressions for weather
- express their thoughts and ideas using two-verb constructions
- discuss things that they have to do
The topics covered are:
- Greetings and farewells
- Introductions
- Alphabet
- Numbers 1-100
- Dates, days, weeks, months, holidays and seasons
- Question words
- Personal information
- Physical & Character Descriptions
- Daily routine
- Hobbies
- Likes/Dislikes
- Telling time
The grammatical topics covered are:
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Plural of nouns
- Subject Pronouns
- Present tense of ser, estar and tener
- Adjectives
- Question words
- Gender and numbers
- Descriptive adjectives forms, positions and agreement with the articles and nouns
- Possessive adjective forms
- Present tense of regular -ar, -er, -ir and stem-changing verbs
- Possession with “de”