Beginning Spanish
Course Detail
This beginning course is designed for those who have no prior Spanish experience or have forgotten what they have learned. The focus is on basic grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary for practical situations including greetings, creating questions, the present tense, and more.
Beginning Spanish Part 1 will cover the following: • Greetings • Alphabet • Foods • Classroom vocabulary • Household vocabulary • The city • Human body • Numbers • Conjugating AR verbs in the present tense • Writing and answering questions • Days of the week • Months of the year.
Textbook: Spanish Now Level 1 8th Edition (WITH CDs) ISBN: 978-0-4380-7523-5 https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Now-Level-MP3-CD/dp/1438075235
Beginning Spanish Part 2 Students will build their
vocabulary base, learn the preterite (past) tense, and use more complex
sentence structures. • Colors • Clothing • Numbers 31-1000 • Descriptive words
• Telling time • Reading comprehension • Conjugating ER and IR verbs in the
present tense • Family • Traveling • Ser • Preterite tense.
Textbook: *Same as Beginning Spanish Part 1 (Spanish Now Level 1 8th Edition, with CDs) ISBN: 978-0-4380-7523-5 https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Now-Level-MP3-CD/dp/1438075235
Beginning Spanish Part 3This course is designed for those who have taken some Spanish in the past and are looking to improve their skills. Students should have elementary knowledge in Spanish including how to conjugate verbs in the present tense along with basic vocabulary.
The focus is on building grammar competencies and vocabulary including the future tense and compound tenses, commands, several types of pronouns and more. Beginning Spanish 3 will cover the following: • Review of Beginning Spanish Parts 1 & 2 • Future tense • Compound tenses • Commands (positive and negative) • Por and para • Prepositions • Vocabulary.
Textbook 1: ISBN: 978-1260467543 Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions, 4th Edition.
Textbook 2: ISBN: 978-1260463156 Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar 4th Edition
Beginning Spanish Part 4 (NO class 4/4)
This course is a continuation of Beginning Spanish 3. Students will build their vocabulary base, learn more compound tenses, and use more complex sentence structures. • Conditional tense • Compound tenses • Using both direct and indirect object pronouns • Ordinal vs cardinal numbers • Demonstrative pronouns • More prepositions • Vocabulary.
Textbooks: *Same as Beginning Spanish Part 3, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions 4th Edition ISBN: 978-1260467543 • Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar 4th Edition ISBN: 978-1260463156
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