Spanish Course Descriptions:

Spanish 1:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

This is a beginner-level Spanish language course designed for students who have little or no prior Spanish learning experience. Students are introduced to the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as to Hispanic cultures. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to carry on basic conversations in the target language as well as read and write short passages using the structures learned. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 1 and 2 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish level 1 should be able to:

• Exchange greetings
• Use expressions of courtesy
• Introduce themselves and someone else
• Count from 1 to 1 million
• Spell their names and other given words
• Tell time
• Use the present tense of 'ser','estar', and other common '-ar' verbs
• Use definite articles 'el, la, los, o las' and indefinite articles 'un, una, unos, o unas'
• Indicate the weekday, month, and year
• Talk about school topics and classes
• Discuss everyday activities
• Ask for specific information
• Describe the location of people and things

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 2:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 2 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 1 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 3 and 4 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 2 should be able to:

• Talk about family and friends
• Describe people and things
• Express possession
• Talk about professions and occupations
• Use the present tense of common '-er'and '-ir' verbs like 'tener' and 'venir'
• Talk about 'pasatiempos', weekend activities, and sports
• Make plans and invitations
• Write short passages using structures learned

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 3:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 3 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 2 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 5 and 6 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 3 should be able to:

• Discuss and plan a vacation
• Describe a hotel
• Talk about how you feel
• Talk about the seasons and the weather
• Use 'estar' with conditions and emotions
• Use the present progressive form of verbs
• Use direct and indirect object pronouns
• Talk about and describe clothing
• Express preferences in a store
• Negotiate and pay for items you buy
• Use the preterite tense of regular verbs
• Use demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
• Use the verbs 'saber' and 'conocer' in the appropriate contexts

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 4:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 4 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 3 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 7 and 8 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 4 should be able to:

• Describe your daily routine
• Talk about personal hygiene
• Reassure someone
• Use reflexive verbs
• Use indefinite and negative words
• Use the preterite of 'ser' and 'ir'
• Talk about likes and dislikes
• Order food at a restaurant
• Talk about and describe food
• Use the preterite of stem-changing verbs
• Use double object pronouns
• Make comparisons
• Use superlatives

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 5:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 5 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 4 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 9 and 10 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 5 should be able to:

• Express congratulations
• Express gratitude
• Ask for and pay the bill at a restaurant
• Use irregular preterites
• Identify verbs that cange meaning in the preterite
• Use pronouns after prepositions
• Write about differences and similarities
• Describe how you feel physically
• Talk about health and medical conditions
• Use the imperfect tense
• Use the preterite and the imperfect tenses
• Use constructions with 'se'
• Use adverbs
• Talk and write about events that occurred in the past using narrative tenses

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 6:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 6 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 5 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 11 and 12 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 6 should be able to:

• Talk about using technology and electronics
• Use common expressions on the telephone
• Talk about car trouble
• Use familiar and formal commands
• Use 'por' and 'para' in the appropriate contexts
• Use reciprocal reflexives
• Use stressed possesive adjectives and pronouns
• Welcome people to your home
• Describe your house or apartment
• Talk about household chores
• Give instructions
• Use relative pronouns
• Use the present subjunctive
• Use the subjunctive with verbs of will and influence
• Use linking words to create complex sentences

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 7:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 7 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 6 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 13 and 14 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 7 should be able to:

• Talk about and discuss the environment
• Express your beliefs and opinions about issues
• Use the subjunctive with verbs of emotion
• Use the subjunctive with doubt, disbelief, and denial
• Use the subjunctive with conjunctions
• Give advice to others
• Give and receive directions
• Discuss daily errands, money, banking, and city life
• Use the subjunctive in adjective clauses

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 8:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 8 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 7 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 15 and 16 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 8 should be able to:

• Talk about health, well-being, and nutrition
• Talk about exercise and physical activities
• Use the present, past perfect, present perfect subjunctive
• Talk about you future plans and professional goals
• Talk about and discuss work
• Interview for a job
• Express agreement and disagreement
• Use the future, future perfect, and past subjunctive
• Recognize similes and metaphors

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 9:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

The level 9 Spanish course is designed for students who have completed level 8 language proficiency. Students will continue to develop their four basic skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Spanish and learn about Hispanic cultures. The teacher will cover the topics in Lección 17 and 18 of the textbook and provide additional resources. Students who successfully complete Spanish 9 should be able to:

• Talk about and discuss the arts
• Express what you would like to do
• Express hesitation
• Use the conditional, conditional perfect, and the past perfect subjunctive
• Discuss current events and issues
• Talk about and discuss the media
• Reflect on experiences, such as travel
• Use 'si' clauses
• Summarize the uses of the subjunctive

Textbook: Vistas: Introducción a la Lengua Española (4th Edition)
ISBN: 9781605768816

Spanish 10:
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

El curso de Español 10 (intermedio B1) está diseñado para estudiantes que han completado el nivel 9 de dominio del idioma.  Los estudiantes desarrollarán su fluidez y ampliarán su vocabulario.   En este nivel, aprenderán a usar estructuras complejas y profesionales del español, idioma coloquial, fonética, y ortografía.  Las lecciones del curso de Español 10 se completan en doce cursos consecutivos de 6 semanas cada uno.  Los alumnos serán capaces de :

• Hablar sobre costumbres sociales, el léxico del ámbito laboral, el léxico del cine y entretenimiento, aspectos de la vida social y administrativa, activismo social, psicología, tecnología, ciencia, y  la cultura popular. 
• Hablar sobre y redactar noticia y comentarla, opinar y valorar, aludir a temas o a intervenciones previas, poner condiciones, hacer, respaldar o rechazar una propuesta, dar consejos, evocar situaciones imaginarias, opinar sobre acciones y conductas, expresar deseos, expresar desconocimiento, expresar causa y finalidad, hablar de sentimientos, del carácter y de la personalidad, hablar de cualidades de personas, objectos, y lugares, expresar condiciones, establecer condiciones y requisitos. 
• Usar recursos para: contar anéctotas, mostrar desacuerdo en diversos registros, suavizar un expresion de desacuerdo, contraargumentar.
• Usar expresiones orales y coloquiales

Usar las siguientes estructuras gramaticales: 

• lo normal/ lo habitual/ lo raro es + infinitivo, soler + infinitivo, cuantificadores,
• perífasis: empezar a/ acabar de / terminar de/ volver a/ dejar de + infinitivo, llevar/ seguir + gerundio, desde/ desde que/ desde hace, 
• si + presente de indicativo, futuro, el futuro simple, seguramente / seguro que / probablemente + futuro, marcadores temporales 
• conectores para relatar
• imperativo afirmativo y negativo
• el presente subjuntivo
• estilo directo
• el pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo
• combinar los tiempos del pasado en un relato (pretérito perfecto, indefinido, imperfecto y pluscumperfecto)
• conectores para hablar de causas y consecuencias 
• me facina/ me encanta/ odio/ no aguanto + sustantivo/ infinitivo
• los superlativos
• las frases exclamativas
• frases relativas con preposición (indicativo y subjuntivo)
• futuro simple y futuro compuesto 
• construcciones en indicativo y en subjuntivo para formular hipótesis 

Textbook: 3 Aula International Plus – Curso de Español B1 (ISBN: 978-84-1803222-6)

Spanish 11
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

El curso de Español 11 (intermedio alto B2.1) está diseñado para estudiantes que han completado el nivel 10 de dominio del idioma. Los estudiantes desarrollarán su fluidez y ampliarán su vocabulario. En este nivel, aprenderán a usar estructuras complejas y profesionales del español, idioma coloquial, fonética, y ortografía. Las lecciones del curso de Español 11 se completan en seis cursos consecutivos de 6 semanas cada uno. Los alumnos serán capaces de :

• comentar y redactar noticias, usando tiempos del pasado, voz pasiva y construcciones impersonales, con léxico de medios de comunicación y recursos coloquiales con verdad.
• expresar y justificar opiniones, hacer y evaluar propuestas y poner condiciones, utilizando indicativo/subjuntivo, conectores argumentativos y léxico de turismo, leyes y gestión, gestionando el turno de palabra en debates.
• dar consejos, expresar deseos, opinar sobre conductas y plantear situaciones hipotéticas, empleando condicional, subjuntivo y léxico de tradiciones, emociones y miedos, con recursos coloquiales de adhesión y negación.
• expresar causa y finalidad, describir personalidad y cualidades, y organizar el discurso con conectores, usando correctamente por/para, la correlación temporal y léxico de relaciones personales y tribus urbanas.
• describir y valorar ciudades, contrastar creencias previas y expresar sentimientos, utilizando oraciones de relativo, voz pasiva y verbos de percepción/opinión, con recursos para atenuar e intensificar.
• establecer condiciones y requisitos formales, evaluar candidaturas y justificar decisiones, usando impersonales con se, pasiva, infinitivo compuesto, pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo y léxico de convocatorias y educación.

Textbook: 4 Aula International Plus – Curso de Español B2.1 (ISBN: 978-84-18224-46-1)

Spanish 12
(3 hours per week for 6 weeks)

El curso de Español 12 (intermedio alto B2.2) está diseñado para estudiantes que han completado el nivel 11 de dominio del idioma. Los estudiantes desarrollarán su fluidez y ampliarán su vocabulario. En este nivel, aprenderán a usar estructuras complejas y profesionales del español, idioma coloquial, fonética, y ortografía. Las lecciones del curso de Español 12 se completan en seis cursos consecutivos de 6 semanas cada uno. Los estudiantes podrán:

describir movimientos, posturas corporales y estados emocionales utilizando vocabulario específico de las partes del cuerpo y de las expresiones faciales.

• describir movimientos, posturas corporales y estados emocionales utilizando vocabulario específico de las partes del cuerpo y de las expresiones faciales.
• describir acciones mediante adjetivos, gerundios, adverbios y frases preposicionales.
• utilizar verbos pronominales para expresar cambios de estado o postura (ponerse, quedarse, sentirse).

• analizar situaciones de conflicto y proponer soluciones en contextos de mediación.
• expresar finalidad e intención mediante para + infinitivo y para que + subjuntivo.
• transmitir promesas o compromisos utilizando el estilo indirecto y usar se para expresar involuntariedad.

• narrar acontecimientos del pasado combinando pretérito perfecto, indefinido e imperfecto.
• utilizar marcadores temporales y construcciones narrativas para estructurar relatos.
• transmitir peticiones y advertencias en relatos utilizando el imperfecto de subjuntivo.

• analizar problemas medioambientales y explicar sus causas y consecuencias.
• hacer predicciones sobre el futuro utilizando el futuro compuesto.
• emplear oraciones temporales con mientras, hasta (que), en cuanto, antes de (que) y después de (que) para organizar el discurso.

• describir profesiones, responsabilidades laborales y características de una empresa.
• expresar opiniones sobre el trabajo utilizando oraciones concesivas (aunque, a pesar de que, por mucho que).
• reformular y ejemplificar ideas mediante marcadores discursivos (es decir, o sea, por ejemplo).

• hablar de situaciones hipotéticas en el pasado utilizando el pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo y el condicional compuesto.
• expresar reproches o arrepentimientos sobre acciones pasadas.
• utilizar combinaciones de pronombres y conectores de causa y consecuencia para desarrollar argumentos.

Textbook: 5 Aula Internacional Plus - Curso de Español B2.2 (ISBN: 978-84-19236-10-4)

Spanish Private Lessons:

We offer Spanish language private lessons. Private lessons are $80 per hour for 1 to 4 students. We will schedule lessons based on the availability of the student(s) and teacher. Start dates are flexible. Please register at least 2 weeks before your first lesson.