Week 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Talking about preferences
The verb to like (gustar)
Quantifying preferences: Mucho/poco/nada/bastante
Week 8
Midterm review
MIDTERM EXAM and MIDTERM ORAL EXAMS
Week 9
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
Asking and telling how to get to a place in public transport
Describing your neighborhood
Quantifying with indefinite adjectives (algún, ningún, poco, mucho, bastante, varios)
Week 11
Describing people: appearance and personality
Uses and differences of Ser/Estar
Use of Muy/mucho
Week 12
Asking and giving directions
Talking about the past
QUIZ 3
Week 13
Regular forms of pretérito indefinido
The past tense: differences between pretérito perfecto/pretérito indefinido
Week 14
FINAL REVIEW
ORAL EXAMS
Final examinations (date to be confirmed)