Week 1 - 29-31 August
Introducing yourself and introducing a person (formal/informal)
Pronunciation: the Spanish alphabet
The noun and the determinate articles
The gender of the adjectives of nationality
Week 2 - 5-7 September
Professions. Asking and telling telephone numbers
Numbers from 0-20
Personal pronouns
Present tense of regular verbs (three conjugations) and irregular verbs to be and to have (ser and tener)
Interrogative pronouns (que, como donde)
Week 3 - 12-14 September
Describing your family
The plural forms of nouns
Prepositions: locators in place
Possessive adjectives
Demostrative adjectives and pronouns: este, ese, aquel
Thursday 14 September - QUIZ 1
Week 4 - 19 September - 21 September NO CLASS
Telling and asking the time. The days of the week
Ordering breakfast
Numbers from 21 to 5.000
Prepositions: locators in time (por, de, a, hasta)
Week 5 - 26- 28 - 29 September
Talking about your weekly routine (work and leisure)
Adverbs and markers of frequency
Present tense of reflexive verbs
Present tense of irregular verbs
Friday 29 September Make-up day for 21 September
Week 6 - 3 - 5 October
Describing your home: furniture and parts of a house
Booking a room in a hotel
Ordinal numbers
The use of Hay/Esta
Definite and indefinite articles
Thursday 5 October - QUIZ 2
Week 7 - 10 - 12 October
Talking about preferences
The verb to like (gustar)
Quantifying preferences: Mucho/poco/nada/bastante
Week 8 - 17 - 19 October
Midterm review
MIDTERM EXAM and MIDTERM ORAL EXAMS
Week 9 - 24 - 26 - 27 October
Ordering lunch and dinner in a restaurant. Recipes of the world
Regular forms of the imperative
Inviting someone, refusing or accepting an invitation. The verb quedar
Present continuous Estar + gerund
Gerund of regular, irregular and reflexive verbs
Friday 27 October make-up day for November 23
Week 10 - 31 October - 2 November
Asking and telling how to get to a place in public transport
Describing your neighborhood
Quantifying with indefinite adjectives (algún, ningún, poco, mucho, bastate, varios
Week 11 - 7 - 9 November
Describing people: appearance and personality
Uses and differences of Ser/Estar
Use of Muy/mucho
Thursday 9 November - QUIZ 3
Week 12 - 14 - 16 November
Asking and giving directions
Talking about the past
Week 13 - 21 November
Regular forms of pretérito indefinido
The past tense: differences between pretéritito perfecto/pretérito indefinido
Week 14 - 28 - 30 November
FINAL REVIEW
ORAL EXAMS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)