Week 1 - 6 - 18 January
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 - 23-25 January
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 - 20 January- 1 February
Describing your family
The plural forms of nouns
Prepositions: locators in place
Possessive adjectives
Demostrative adjectives and pronouns: este, ese, aquel
QUIZ 1
Week 4 - 6 - 8 February
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 - 13-15 February
Talking about your weekly routine (work and leisure)
Adverbs and markers of frequency
Present tense of reflexive verbs
Present tense of irregular verbs
Week 6 - 20-22 February
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
QUIZ 2
Week 7 - 27 February - 1 March
Talking about preferences
The verb to like (gustar)
Quantifying preferences: Mucho/poco/nada/bastante
Week 8 - 6-8 March
Midterm review
MIDTERM EXAM and MIDTERM ORAL EXAM
Week 9 - 13-15 March
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
Week 10 - 20-22 March
Asking and telling how to get to a place in public transport
Describing your neighborhood
Quantifying with indefinite adjectives (algún, ningún, poco, mucho, bastante, nada)
Week 11 - 27-29 March
Describing people: appearance and personality
Uses and differences of Ser/Estar
Use of Muy/mucho
QUIZ 3
3-5 April SPRING BREAK
Week 12 - 10-12 April
Asking and giving directions
Talking about the past
Week 13 - 7-19 April
Regular forms of pretérito indefinido
The past tense: differences between pretéritito perfecto/pretérito indefinido
Week 14 - 24-26 April
FINAL REVIEW
ORAL EXAMS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)