WEEK 1
Tasks: Talking about feelings and learning difficulties, cognitive skills and personal experiences.
Grammar: verbs noto que / me resulta difícil / A mí me parece (I realize that, I notice that, it was hard for me, it seems to me). Giving advice: verbs intentar and procurar (try to, seek to)
Vocabulary related to education and learning process.
WEEK 2
Tasks: Writing a biography
Grammar: past simple regular and irregular. Prepositions: desde, durante, hasta
WEEK 3
Tasks: Expresing preferences, likes and dislikes. Making comparisons
Grammar: Pronominal verbs: gustar, encantar. Comparative adjectives
Vocabulary: rooms and furniture in a house
Test 1
WEEK 4
Tasks: Making and responding to polite offers and requests. Offering to do things
Grammar: Past continuous. Conditional tense
WEEK 5
Tasks: Expressing preferences and desires. Making suggestions, accepting or rejecting them. Talking about plans and arrangements. Talking about dates and times
Grammar: Te apetece/te va bien (do you want, if that suits you). Verbs quedar (meeting friends) and quedarse (to stay). Adverbs and expressions of frequency
Vocabulary related to the entertainment industry: leisure spaces and activities, types of TV programs and films
Oral presentations
WEEK 6
Tasks: Talking about eating habits. Recipes
Grammar: Grammar: Se impersonal (english passive form). Direct object pronouns. Ser/estar
Vocabulary: Food and drink
WEEK 7
Midterm review and Midterm exam
WEEKS 8-9
Tasks: Talking about experiences. Describing people
Grammar: past simple regular and irregular/present perfect. Pronominal verbs: caer bien o mal, llevarse bien o mal. I would like to know if (me gustaría saber si)
Vocabulary: personality adjectives
WEEKS 10-11
Tasks: Talking about our health status and feelings. Warnings and advice
Grammar: Tienes que/Hay que (to have to, to must). Imperative.
Vocabulary: Health and medicine. Parts of the body. Sickness and accidents. Feelings
WEEK 12
Tasks: Talking about past habits.
Grammar: past continuous. Yet, just, already. Time expressions
Test 2
WEEK 13
Task: Talking about past experience.
Grammar: past simple regular and irregular/present perfect/past continuous. Sequence adverbs. Estaba+gerund / estuve+gerund
WEEK 14
Oral presentation
Final Review
Final Exam