Level

Beginner I and II

(80 hours)

General Objetives: Learn symbols and sounds that allow communication or interchange in a basic instance characterized by simple, practical and descriptive dialogues, using the Latin American, and specially Argentinian reality. It is a Intensive Basic Spanish, Grammar, pronunciation and conversation skills are developed.

Specific Objetives: 

• Make a presentation of oneself

• Describe people, objects and situations

• Make questions, communicate and apply proper tenses

• Ask and give information about places of the city, meals, the the family, the transport facilities,etc.

• Express wishes, preferences and sensations

• Make invitations

• Ask permission and favours

• Give orders and instructions

• Ask prices and measures

• Elaborate and learn vocabulay adequate to circumnstances of basic level

• Formulate sentences, phrases and questions in correct order (syntax), communicate and apply proper tenses.

• Understand basic questions, explanations and simple dialogues

Grammatical Contents

• Verbs Regulars- Irregulars
• Present Tense Indicative
• Imperative. Using vos, usted, ustedes, tú
• Future Tense. Expressing Future with Verb ir + Infinitive
• Present Progressive Tense
• Verbs ser, estar, hacer, haber (hay), querer, poder, volver, salir, poner, ir, tener, gustar, encantar,interesar,parecer, caer (bien/mal)
• Reflexives Verbs: llamarse, vestirse, peinarse,etc.
• Expressing possibility and asking permission, favours: Verb poder + infinitive
• Expressing wishes, making offering, invitations: Verb querer + Infinitive or Noun
• Expressing preference, necessity, desires and obligation: Verbs querer vs tener que
• Using Verb tener for: possesion, age, etc.
• Idiomatic Expressions.
• Pronouns
• Personals (singular/plural)
• Reflexives
• Interrogatives: qué, quién, dónde, cómo
• Using pronouns of direct object and indirect object for avoiding repetitions. Location of Pronouns.
• Demonstratives: este, ese, aquel
• Prepositions
• Use of  de for indicating possesion and origin place
• Use of en for indicating location
• Use of prepositions combined with articles: de la, de las, de los. Use of contraction del
• Use of prepositions with Verbs: ir a, ir en, ser de, vivir en, etc.
• Use of prepositions of time
• References time-space
• Use of aquí, allí, acá, frente a, cerca de, lejos de, a la derecha, etc.
• Use of para:  ¿para qué? ¿para quién?
• Use of por
• Use of muy and mucho
• Conjunctions (connections)
• Use of  y and pero
• Expressions with mucho, poco, nada
• Espressions of agreement and disagreement:a mí sí, a mí no, a mí también, a mí tampoco
• Expressions of frequency
• Indefinite Articles un, una con hay
• Definite Articles el, la, los, las, combining with the Verb estar
• Adjetives
• Concordance gender and number
• Affirmation-Negation
• Using nunca, siempre
• Ordinal and Cardinal numbers