Spanish 1
OVERVIEW
Learn basic Spanish grammar to help build your fluency and understanding. Apply what you learn through interactive games, written practice, listening, and speaking exercises—holidays celebrated in Spanish-speaking countries.
Expressing degrees of preference with GUSTAR and mucho, muchísimo, poco, and nada.
Buying groceries and understanding numbers, signs, and prices
MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS
- Recognizing the myths vs. realities of Hispanic culture
- Understanding cognates and borrowed words
- Using cognates to build Spanish vocabulary
- Alphabet, vowel sounds, pronunciation, and comparing the sounds of Spanish to English
- Greetings, introducing yourself and others, courtesies
- Question words: asking and responding to questions
- Numbers 1-100
- Colors
- Using adjectives to describe self, family, and friends
- Adjective agreement
- Gender in nouns and adjectives
- Talking about school, classroom objects, and extracurricular activities
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Telling time and talking about schedules
- Days of the week, months of the year, dates
- Using the verb GUSTAR to express likes and dislikes
- Subject pronouns
- Formal vs. informal
- Using –ar verbs
- Using –er and –ir verbs
- Schools in other countries
- Talking about family members, family traditions and holidays
- Singular vs. plural nouns and adjectives
- Using irregular verbs: TENER, SER, ESTAR
- Possessive adjectives
- Expressing age
- Holidays celebrated in Spanish speaking countries
- Occupations and employment possibilities for the 21st century
- Talking about your home and your community
- Using HAY to express “there is” or “there are.”
- Expressions with infinitives: TENER QUE, IR A
- Culture: Exploring Spain with Anthony, student blogger
- Culture: Exploring Cuba with Marisa, student blogger
- Types of stores, shopping, money
- Buying clothes and using the verb COSTAR
- Numbers 100-1000
- Expressing degrees of preference with GUSTAR and mucho, muchísimo, poco and nada.
- Buying gifts and using the verb DAR
- Personal “a”
- Indirect object pronouns
- Buying groceries and understanding numbers, signs and prices
- Shopping in other countries
- Speaking about food and dining experiences
- Using the verb VER
- Speaking in a restaurant: reading a menu, ordering, listening, asking and responding to questions
- Setting the table
- Direct object pronouns
- Culture: Foods and customs of cultures in the Spanish speaking world
- Meal times
- Geography and food
- Describing weather & seasons
- Activities for different seasons
- Celsius vs. Fahrenheit and temperature conversions
- Using “-go” verbs: TENER, PONER, TRAER, DECIR, SALIR, HACER, VENIR, OIR
- Sports for different seasons, using JUGAR
- Severe weather
- Hanging out with friends
- Using e – ie stem-changing verbs: EMPEZAR, CERRAR, PENSAR, PERDER, QUERER, PREFERIR
- Going to the movies
- Parts of the body
- Transportation
- Talking about pastimes
- Using o – ue stem-changing verbs: ALMORZAR, ENCONTRAR, VOLVER, PODER, DORMIR
- Using e – i stem-changing verbs: SERVIR, PEDIR, REPITIR
- Culture: Exploring Colombia with Sandra, student blogger
Culture: Exploring Argentina with Juan, the student blogger
Fee Details
| Program | Regular |
| Fee | $ 558 |
Grade Level
Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration
10 Months
Requirements
Microphone and speaker, or headset.
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