Week 1 - 22-24 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 - 29-31 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 - 5-7 February
Describing your family
The plural forms of nouns
Prepositions: locators in place
Possessive adjectives
Demostrative adjectives and pronouns: este, ese, aquel
Thursday QUIZ 1
Week 4 - 12-14 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 - 19-21-22 February
Talking about your weekly routine (work and leisure)
Adverbs and markers of frequency
Present tense of reflexive verbs
Present tense of irregular verbs
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY MAKE UP DAY for 25 April
Week 6 - 26-28 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
Tuesday QUIZ 2
Week 7 - 5-7 March
Talking about preferences
The verb to like (gustar)
Quantifying preferences: Mucho/poco/nada/bastante
11-15 March SPRING BREAK
Week 8 - 19-21 March
Midterm review
MIDTERM EXAM
Week 9 - 26-28 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 - 2 March - 4 April
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 - 9-11 April
Describing people: appearance and personality
Uses and differences of Ser/Estar
Use of Muy/mucho
Thursday QUIZ 3
Week 12 - 16-18 April
Asking and giving directions
Talking about the past
Week 13 - 23 April
Regular forms of pretérito indefinido
The past tense: differences between pretéritito perfecto/pretérito indefinido
25 April NO CLASS
Week 14 - 30 April - 2 May
Final review
ORAL EXAMS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)