English
Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
None
Requirements
None
Course Summary
This Spanish course teaches basic communication, vocabulary, and grammar while exploring Spanish-speaking cultures. Students will cover topics like family, social life, transportation, food, and health, building skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:
Use subject pronouns and match them with conjugated verb forms; use adjectives and articles and match them (by gender and number) with nouns.
Construct and comprehend, orally and in writing, sentences in Spanish in the present tense with a variety of regular and irregular verbs.
Know when to use the verbs estar or ser (to be), conocer or saber (to know) in several situations.
Ask and answer questions about people's names (using the reflexive verb llamarse) and national origins, and to discuss dates and time of day.
Count and recognize the numbers in Spanish up to 1,000.
Use verbs like gustar, encantar, and disgustar to express likes and dislikes.
Make comparisons and express agreement and disagreement.
Use regular verbs in the preterite (past) tense.
Use direct-object pronouns and the preterite of leer (read), sacar (take out), and prestar (lend), along with direct-object pronouns.
Construct and comprehend, orally and in writing, sentences in Spanish in the preterite tense with a variety of regular and irregular verbs.
Use the present tense to describe weather conditions and the associated food, clothing, and activities.
Use the verbs hacer and estar to describe weather conditions.
Use ir + a to talk about what is going to happen in the future.
Use future tense to talk about weather forecast.
Use subjunctive mood with para que (so that or in order that).