Spanish

 

Beginners

You will develop basic listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Spanish. You will have one class test during the course.

Course materials include worksheets.

Textbook

  • Amigos 1: Spanish Beginner's Course Coursebook, by Patricia Molina-Hamilton, chapters 1 to 7.
  • International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 9798649631792.

Topics and vocabulary

  • Greetings, introductions, and the alphabet
  • Numbers 0 to 100
  • Countries and nationalities
  • Age, professions and places of work
  • Marital status
  • Food and prices
  • Members of the family
  • Physical descriptions
  • North, south, east, and west

Grammar content

  • Subject pronouns
  • Gender
  • Plural form
  • Conjugations of regular and irregular verbs
  • Possessive and qualifying adjectives
  • Prepositions and conjunctions
  • Interrogatives, negatives, quantifiers, comparatives, and superlatives
  • Demonstrative pronouns and adjectives
  • Definite and indefinite articles

Elementary 1

You will build on your beginner's listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Spanish. The course will be taught in Spanish and you will have one class test during the course.

Course materials include worksheets.

Textbook

  • Amigos 1: Spanish Beginner's Course Coursebook, by Patricia Molina-Hamilton, chapters 7 to 11.
  • International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 9798649631792.

Topics and vocabulary

  • Places of interest, place descriptions and comparisons
  • Numbers 100+
  • Location, life in my city or town
  • Describing the place where you live
  • Rooms and furniture inside the house
  • Directions
  • Shopping and asking for a price
  • Measurements
  • Daily routine
  • Days of the week and months of the year
  • Telling the time
  • Asking and answering questions

Grammar content

  • Prepositions
  • Interrogatives and exclamations
  • The verb 'to be'
  • The verb 'to have'
  • The verbs 'to take' and 'to prefer' 
  • Colours
  • Adjectives and adverbs
  • Definite and indefinite articles
  • Reflexive and irregular verbs

Elementary 2

You will further develop your listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Spanish. This course will be taught in Spanish and you will have one class test during the course.

Course materials include worksheets.

Textbook

  • Aula Internacional Plus 1, chapters 5 to 9.
  • International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 978-84-1-8032189

Topics and vocabulary

  • Friends, family, personal relationships
  • Describing people and character
  • Music and festivals
  • Personal interests
  • Spare time
  • Day-to-day and days of the week
  • Daily routine
  • Habits
  • Time and frequency
  • Meals of the day, cooking, restaurants
  • Spanish and Hispanic gastronomy
  • The ideal neighbourhood
  • Places and services around the city
  • Asking for and giving information
  • Driving
  • Jobs and professions
  • Abilities, skills, qualities and defects
  • Holidays, celebrations and traditions

Grammar content

  • Adjectives to describe physical appearance and character
  • The verbs 'poner', 'traer', 'saber', 'poder', 'gustar', 'preferir'
  • Pronouns (lo, la, los, las)
  • Quantifiers (muy, bastante, un poco, algún, ningún, muchos)
  • The use of 'de', 'con' and 'sin'
  • Prepositions and adverbs (a, en, al lado de, lejos, cerca)
  • Qualifying adjectives
  • The use of verbs in 'pretérito perfecto'
  • Present indicative of some irregular verbs
  • Future tense 
  • Reflexive verbs

Intermediate 1

You will develop intermediate listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Spanish. This course will be taught in Spanish and you will have one class test during the course.

Course materials include worksheets.

Textbook

  • Aula Internacional Plus 2, chapters 1 to 5.
  • International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 9788418032202.

Topics and vocabulary

  • New experiences
  • Biographies
  • A love story
  • Identifying personality traits
  • Home, sweet home
  • Types of property
  • Using verbs to be courteous
  • Justifying actions and asking for permission

Grammar content

  • Present tense for regular and irregular verbs
  • Reflexive verbs
  • The verbs 'costar' and 'sentirse' 
  • The use of 'para', 'por qué', 'desde', 'desde hace', 'hace que', 'por', and 'para'
  • Past perfect and indefinite past tenses
  • Differences between '¿Qué?' and '¿Cuál?'
  • Prepositions (desde, durante, hasta)
  • Narrations
  • Demonstrative adjectives (este, ése, aquel, aquello)
  • Possessive pronouns
  • The verbs 'ser', 'estar', 'gustar', 'encantar' and 'preferir'
  • Gerund (regular and irregular) 

Intermediate 2

You will build on your intermediate listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in Spanish. This course will be taught in Spanish and you will have a class test during the course.

Course materials include worksheets.

Textbook

  • Aula Internacional Plus 2, chapters 6 to 10.
  • International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 9788418032202.

Topics and vocabulary

  • 'To break the ice'
  • Spare time and sports
  • Tourism
  • Food, food preferences, and recipes
  • The use of 'Estamos muy bien'
  • Health
  • Past and present
  • The different stages in life, habits, and traditions
  • Special moments

Grammar content

  • Past tense revision
  • Past perfect, plans and projects 
  • The verbs 'gustar', 'doler' and 'tener'
  • Infinitives and the use of 'ir a', 'querer' and 'pensar' 
  • Personal pronouns, and the use of 'se' 
  • The use of 'pero' and 'además'
  • Combining 'soler' with an infinitive
  • Various ways of using the verbs 'ser' and 'estar'
  • Making suggestions
  • The use of 'ya no' and 'todavía'
  • Combining gerund and the verb 'estar

Intermediate 3

You will further develop your intermediate listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in Spanish. This course will be taught in Spanish and you will have a class test during the course.

Course materials include worksheets.

Textbook

  • Aula Internacional Plus 3: Libro del alumno, chapters 1 to 6.
  • International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 9788418032226.

Topics and vocabulary

  • 'To break the ice'
  • Questions (¿Qué?, ¿Cuál?)
  • Norms, traditions, and prohibition
  • 'Starting from scratch'
  • 'A new year, a new you'
  • Jobs and cover letters
  • Habits and changes
  • Talking about tomorrow
  • Conditional sentences and talking about the future
  • Film and television
  • Expressing emotions and preferences
  • Advertising campaigns

Grammar content

  • Combining infinitives and 'lo normal', 'lo habitual', 'lo raro es'
  • Infinitives and 'soler'
  • Quantifiers (todo el mundo, la mayoría de, muchos, algunos, es obligatorio, está prohibido, está permitido, se prohibe, se permite)
  • Past perfect, perfect indefinite, indicative
  • The use of 'empezar a' and 'acabar de'
  • Infinitives and 'terminar de'
  • Gerund and 'llevar'
  • Using 'desde', 'desde que', and 'desde hace'
  • Conditionals and the future
  • Combining nouns and 'depende de'
  • Direct, indirect and reflexive pronouns
  • Affirmative and negative imperatives 
  • Present subjunctive

Advanced

This course will focus on the development of speaking skills in Spanish.

Textbook

  • The tutor will provide different types of text and media to cover a wide range of topics and interests, depending on students' needs and interests.

Topics and vocabulary

  • Travel
  • Festivals
  • Food and drink
  • Games and sport
  • Literature (short stories, theatre and poems)
  • Film
  • Education
  • America – discovered or conquered?
  • Class quiz

Grammar content

  • Persuasive and descriptive language
  • Expressing preferences
  • Descriptions and narration
  • Sports jargon
  • Past tense
  • Creative writing
  • Film reviews
  • Comparing and contrasting
  • Literary language
  • Argumentative language, debate and providing evidence
  • Review of cultural and grammar content