Please note that there will be make-up Friday classes on Oct 9, 16 and Nov 13
Please take note of the dates of the exams:
Quiz 1- October 13
Midterm Exam - October 29
Quiz 2 - November 19
Oral Presentations - December 10
Week 1 - 22- 24 September
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 September - 1 October
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 - 6 - 8 - 9 October
Describing your family
The plural forms of nouns
Prepositions: locators in place
Possessive adjectives
Demostrative adjectives and pronouns: este, ese, aquel
Friday 9 October - MAKE UP DAY
Week 4 - 13- 15 - 16 October
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)
Talking about your weekly routine (work and leisure)
Adverbs and markers of frequency
QUIZ 1 - Tuesday October 13
Friday 16 October - MAKE UP DAY
Week 5 - 20-22 October
Present tense of reflexive verbs
Present tense of irregular verbs
Describing your home: furniture and parts of a house
Booking a room in a hotel
Week 6 - 27-29 October
Midterm review and MIDTERM EXAM
Week 7 - 3-5 November
Ordinal numbers
The use of Hay/Esta
Definite and indefinite articles
Midterm review
Week 8 - 10-12-13 November
Talking about preferences
The verb to like (gustar)
Quantifying preferences: Mucho/poco/nada/bastante
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
Friday 13 November - MAKE UP CLASS
Week 9 - 17-19 November
Present continuous Estar + gerund
Gerund of regular, irregular and reflexive verbs
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)
QUIZ 2 Thursday November 19
Week 10 - 24-26 November
Describing people: appearance and personality
Uses and differences of Ser/Estar
Week 11 - 1-3 December
Asking and giving directions
Talking about the past
Regular forms of pretérito indefinido
The past tense: differences between pretéritito perfecto/pretérito indefinido
Week 12 - 10 December
Final review
ORAL EXAMS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)