WEEK
1: Getting started
 Socializing: Introducing and talking about yourself (presentación
personal), getting on with people, exchanging personal information;
talking about hobbies, abilities, likes and dislikes, giving opinions.
Course objectives and expectations
Learning how to learn Spanish
Basic review
** Project: Thinking about and planning a final class project
WEEK
2: Traveling and touring
Doing things with words: Planning a vacation, arriving
in a country, touring; getting and giving directions, using a
map and public transportation.
Structure: Future with “ir”, imperatives,
orthographical changing verbs, prepositions, adjetivos demostrativos.
“Podría por favor”, “Hay..”.
Vocabulary and environment: Countries, world geography,
places in a city, transportation.
WEEK
3: Setting into accommodation and eating out
Doing things with words: Hotel =Making reservations, filling
out forms, setting into accommodation, paying, following instructions.
Restaurant = ordering a meal, expressing likes and dislikes, agreeing
and disagreeing.
Structure: Presente del indicativo. Tambien, tampoco,
podría, puede, quisiera, gustar
Vocabulary and environment: Hotel, restaurants, food,
market place, numerical expressions
** Project: designing and working on a final class project
WEEK
4: Shopping
Doing things with words: Shopping = talking about prices;
buying and selling things, making comparisons; using financial
and postal services.
Structure: Adjetivos demostrativos (este, esto, esta,
estos; ese, esa, esos, aquello(a) aquellos [llas]); “¿Cuánto
cuesta eso?, comparisons (más que), ser/estar, adjectives
(costoso/caro, económico/barato), “gustar”.
Vocabulary and environment: Numbers, numerical expressions,
places in a city ; clothes, appliances, general goods.
Basic Review
WEEK
5: Emergencies
Doing things with words: Dealing with emergency situations
= making requests, complaining, reporting, asking for and giving
information; describing situations, objects, places and people.
Asking for and giving advice and recommendations.
Structure: Irregular verbs in the conditional form “condicional”;
“pretérito imperfecto y pretérito perfecto
simple”.
Vocabulary and environment: places in a city, crime, public
safety.
WEEK
6: Working I
Doing things with words: Looking and applying for a job,
introducing and describing yourself, having an interview and interviewing.
Requesting and providing work related services. Making outgoing
calls and receiving incoming calls, taking messages and writing
notes.
Structure: Presente, pretérito y futuro del indicativo
Vocabulary and environment: Cover letters, resumes, job
and occupations, workplaces (office, factory, hospital, hotel,etc.)
WEEK
7: Working II
Doing things with words: Understanding and writing reports
and correspondence (letters, memos, e-mail, etc.). Understanding
and writing reports. Participating in meetings and seminars, following
and giving a presentation or demonstration.
Structure: Presente, pretérito y futuro del indicativo
Vocabulary and environment: Letters, memos, e-mails, reports,
job and occupations, work places, disciplines (science, health,
business, art, engineering, etc.)
WEEK
8:
** Project: Presentations of class projects
Final review
Course evaluation |
