Contents & Levels > Beginner 1

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Topics & Vocabulary

• Greetings and introductions
• The alphabet. Learning to spell.
• Personal information: name, address, telephone number, email address, age, marital status. Countries and nationalities.
• Professions.
• Numbers 0-100.
• The family.
• Describing people.
• Colors.
• Formal and informal ways of addressing people.
• The house and furniture.
• Likes and dislikes

Grammar

• Number and gender.
• Articles: in/definite.
• Demonstrative pronouns.
• Personal pronouns.
• Interrogative pronouns.
• Noun-adjective agreement.
• Question words ( ¿cuál?, ¿qué?, cuántos?, ¿dónde?, ¿cómo?, ¿por qué?).
• Present tense of basic verbs like ser, estar, trabajar, vivir, tener, llevar.
• Quantifiers: muy, bastante.
• Agreeing and disagreeing ( también, tampoco, sí, no).
• Some uses of ser and estar.
• Verb gustar/preferir

Cultural Content

• The differences in the use of tú/usted and vosotros/ustedes between Spain and Latin American countries.
• Cultural differences when meeting people.
• Spanish language in the world.

Skills work

Lots of…

• speaking
• listening
• pronunciation