Beginning
General Objective
Students will acquire a general knowledge of the basic grammar contents along with a socio-cultural view of the Spanish speaking countries; they will also achieve basic receptive and productive skills both in the oral and in the written language.
Specific Objective
- Listening: The student will be able to understand oral messages on material needs, physical sensations and personal opinions in a simple, explicit way.
- Speaking: The student will be able to produce statements concerning basic needs, physical sensations, opinions and feelings.
- Reading: The student will be able to understand the gist of short texts concerning topics the student is familiar with.
- Writing: The student will be able to write short notes using simple statements with basic link words.
Beginning 1 (A1/1)
Communicative Contents:
- Greet people and say goodbye
- Introduce oneself
- Spell words
- Request personal information about nationalities, languages spoken and professions
- Addresses and phone numbers
- Introduce people
- Talk about family members, marital status and age
- Describe people: Physical appearance and personality
- Express existence
- Identify, differentiate and specify
- Interact in shops: buy things and ask for prices
- Describe locations
- Describe houses and their rooms
Beginning 2 (A1/2)
Communicative Contents:
- Give directions on how to get to places
- Answer the phone. Start a telephone conversation
- Talk about shows, timetables and show locations
- Talk about daily habits
- Accept and decline invitations. Arrange appointments
- Talk about likes and preferences
- Express pain
- Ask about people´s health
- Order at a restaurant. Ask waiters for services or things
- Describe what clothes people are wearing
- Make comparisons
- Buy clothes
- Wish people a happy birthday
- Give and receive presents
- Offer and refuse food and beverages
- Apologize and give excuses
- Talk about the past
- Talk about the recent past, and about plans and intentions
- Talk about personal experiences
- Express opinion: agreement and disagreement
Beginning 3 (A2/1)
Communicative Contents:
- Talk about jobs and education
- Express personal likes
- Talk about the time
- Talk about the weather
- Talk about timetables
- Talk about daily routines and weekend activities
- Specify when and how often we do things
- Express frequency of events
- Talk about transport networks
- Talk about what one is doing
- Ask and talk about physical and emotional states
- Express pain
- Offer, accept and reject something
- Make, accept and reject suggestions
- Express and enquire about degrees of certainty
- Express knowledge and degrees of certainty
- Ask about the existence of places and their location
- Give information about these places
- Give information regarding distances
- Give directions
Beginning 4 (A2/2)
Communicative Contents:
- Talk about the past
- Talk about people´s lives
- Express preferences
- Make comparisons
- Request and give information about means of transportation
- Express need or obligation
- Request, give and refuse permission
- Request, give and refuse permission, favours
- Ask for things. Accept or refuse
- Borrow things. Refuse and accept to lend things
