Absolute Beginners Course Spanish
20 Hour course
Location Home or Office, Nationwide Availability
Cost: £699
Times: To suit
Outline Language: Spanish Level: Absolute Beginner (20 hours)
Topics, Vocabulary, Themes
• The alphabet and personal/basic greetings.
• Introductions – how to ask and say name, surname, where one lives, what one studies and does for living. Also, how to say your name, surname, place of living, studies and work
• Talking about someone else – what he/she studies, does for living, lives, name and surname
• Numbers (1-10,000). How to say telephone numbers and ask for telephone numbers
• Use of masculine and feminine for nationalities
• Writing postcards and letters in Spanish; how to identify and say the address and city/country of residence
• Verbs “Ser” and “Estar” (to be) – differences. How to say the marital status
• Talking about family – how to say the members of the family (mother, father, cousin, grandparents, etc)
• Physical descriptions
• Use of you formal “usted”.
• Use of “there is, there are” (Hay) practicing with naming objects
• Dialogues in an airport (customs office), buying a map in a shop
• How to say “how much is something” (cuanto es/cuanto cuesta/cuanto vale). Use of “how many”/”how much” (cuanto/cuanta/cuantos/cuantas)
• Dialogue in a restaurant. How to order food and drinks. Name foods and drinks in a coffee shop.
• Cities, towns of Spain. How to say where in the map is a city or region
• Buying items from a street market, a supermarket or a shop
• How to book a room in a hotel and check-in
• Prepositions and use of “ester” (to be) – where things are in the room or in the house
• Body parts
• Months of the year, days of the week.
• How to say the time and ask for the time
Grammar
• Phonetics – the alphabet
• Use of subject pronouns “yo” (I) and “tu” (you singular). Verb “ser” – to be.
• Regular verbs” - Verbs ending in AR/ER/IR (Hablar, trabajar, comer, vivir- to speak, to work, to eat)
• Masculine and feminine, singular and plural for nouns and adjectives
• Use of the third person “el/ella/usted” (he/she/you formal)
• Verbs “Ser” and “Estar” (to be) – differences
• Verb “tener” (to have) to say the age
• The determined article (the) masculine and feminine, singular and plural (el/la/los/las)
• The undetermined article (a) masculine and feminine, singular and plural (un/una/unos/unas)
• Physical descriptions
• “Hay” (there is/there are)
• Prepositions – differences with the English language
