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B1

SPANISH LANGUAGE COURSE

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Welcome!


This language course is an intensive program that prepares the student to be fully functional when speaking to natives. For this reason, they will have a series of activities that will help them to practice for real life situations and, later on, to face a conversation with native speakers with fluency and confidence.

You will learn to develop proficiency when speaking, improve your pronunciation, as well as understanding of native phrases that can be difficult for non-natives.

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What Is Level B1?

The B1 level in Spanish, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), signifies an intermediate proficiency level. This level is divided in B1 and B2.

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What are the B1 Level Skills?

At this stage, learners are able to comprehend and produce coherent texts on familiar topics regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.

They can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.

They can deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in areas where the language is spoken.

Furthermore, they can describe experiences, events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, as well as briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. Accuracy might vary, but communication remains largely effective.

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Important abilities

COMPREHENSION

Listening Comprehension


  • Understand the main ideas when the speech is clear and normal and deals with everyday matters that take place at work, at school, during leisure time, etc.
  • Understand the main idea of many radio or television programs dealing with current affairs or matters of personal or professional interest, when the articulation is relatively slow and clear


Reading Comprehension


  • ŠUnderstand texts written in a language of habitual and daily use or related to work
  • Understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters



SPEAKING

Oral Interaction


  • Get by in almost all situations that arise when traveling to places where the language is spoken
  • Spontaneously engage in conversation on everyday topics of personal interest or that are relevant to daily life (e.g., family, hobbies, work, travel, and current events)


Oral Expression


  • Know how to link sentences in a simple way in order to describe experiences and facts, dreams, hopes and ambitions
  • Explain and briefly justify opinions and projects
  • Narrate a story or tale, the plot of a book or movie, and describe their reactions




WRITING

Written Expression


  • Write simple and well linked texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest
  • Write personal letters describing experiences and impressions





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What can I achieve with this level?

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Scope

Š Possess a large enough linguistic repertoire to get by and an adequate vocabulary to express themselves, albeit hesitantly and with circumlocutions, on topics such as their family, hobbies and interests, work, travel and current affairs


Correction

Š Use with reasonable accuracy a repertoire of commonly used formulas and structures associated with predictable situations


Interaction

Š Initiate, maintain and end simple face-to-face conversations on everyday topics of personal interest

Š Repeat part of what someone has said to confirm mutual

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Coherence

Š Link a series of short, distinct and simple elements to enable a linear sequence of related ideas


Fluency

Š Continue to speak in a comprehensible manner, although pauses for grammatical, lexical planning and correction are evident, especially during long periods of free speech


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Study Materials

Multimedia material


  • You will have different courses that contain the material for each unit
  • Videos will help you understand the Grammar
  • You will also be able to print the Material and do the exercises there, so that you don’t need to take so many notes.





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Personalized classes

Zoom


  • You will online classes via Zoom
  • The class will be tailored according to your personal needs





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Compatibility


  • You don‘t have a laptop?
  • Don‘t worry, you can use other devices as well.
  • The bigger the screen, the better!





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Syllabus

Unit 1-TE TRAJE UN REGALO


Grammar

  • Direct Object Pronouns
  • Indirect Object Pronouns




Unit 2-¿Cómo es tu rutina semanal?


Grammar

  • Daily activities
  • Student Life
  • At Work





OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES


  • Š Speak about presents, and say who they are for.
  • Use Past and Present Tenses along with the PODs and POIs
  • Have everyday conversations about common situations referring to objects and people.




  • Ask for and give permission, excuse and apologize
  • Ask and express obligation and the necessity to do something (and their opposites) Formulate conditions for doing something
  • Express impossibility, possibility or obligation to do something
  • Describe feelings and emotions
  • Ask for and offer objects, help and services


Unit 3-¿Comemos afuera?

Grammar

  • At the Supermarket. Food and Drinks
  • Food. Culinary Adjectives
  • Restaurants and Cuisine




Unit 4-Cuéntame sobre tu vida familiar


  • Family Life
  • What is Your Home Like?
  • Furniture and Decoration
  • Household Chores


  • Indicate possession
  • Ask and express feelings towards others: gratitude, appreciation, affection, sympathy, antipathy, aversion, admiration
  • Express opinions and beliefs
  • Tell anecdotes and experiences
  • Describe possible future situations Indicate possession
  • Describe objects and furniture in the house
  • Express where and when something happens Explain the causes, purposes and consequences


OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES

  • Address someone using polite formulas appropriate to the context
  • Ask for and give information about food
  • Express a complaint or claim
  • Evaluate services
  • Ask for and offer objects, help and services
  • Ask for things urgently but with courtesy
  • Offer something to others





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Syllabus

Unit 5-¿Te sientes bien?


Grammar

  • The Human Body
  • Reflexive verbs with different Tenses
  • Modal verbs




Unit 6-¿Qué te gusta hacer los fines de semana?


Grammar

  • Comparison of adjectives
  • Future Tenses
  • Giving points of view

OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES


  • Ask about and express health conditions, symptoms and physical sensations
  • Ask questions and express improvements or worsening of health
  • React to information with expressions of interest, surprise, disbelief, joy, sorrow
  • Share feelings, reassure, encourage, express condolences
  • Make an appointment
  • Prevent and warn
  • Advise someone to do something




  • Summarize information
  • Value ideas, facts, people and places
  • Plan an activity
  • Suggest activities, accept/reject and react to suggestions
  • Describe sports
  • List, oppose, exemplify, clarify aspects, contrast, emphasize, summarize
  • Advise, recommend, encourage and persuade someone to do something


Unit 7-¿Usas mucho las redes sociales?

Grammar

  • Technology and Computers
  • Internet Has Changed Our Lives
  • Are You Connected? Redes sociales

Unit 8-¿Qué países has visitado?


  • El Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto
  • Ways of Traveling and Methods of Transportation
  • Prepositions
  • Future Tenses




  • Talk about future events
  • Ask for and give information about vacation spots
  • Compare ideas, people, objects, places, situations and actions Plan an activity
  • Suggest activities, accept/reject and react to suggestions Propose solutions, refute, give opinions, convince



OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES

  • Advise, recommend, encourage and persuade someone to do something Summarize information
  • Value ideas, facts, people and places
  • Plan an activity
  • Talk about future events






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Syllabus

Unit 9-¿Qué harías si viniera un tornado?


Grammar

  • Condicional Simple
  • Pretérito Imperfecto
  • Condicional compuesto




Unit 10-¿Qué había pasado?


Grammar

  • Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto

OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES

  • Connect actions in the present, past and future
  • Express and contrast opinions
  • Compare, predict future sensations
  • Raise hypotheses and degrees of probability
  • Convey information
  • Prevent and warn
  • Connect conditions, causes and consequences
  • Learn meteorological terms





  • Summarize important data from the past
  • Connect actions in the present, past and future
  • Summarize information
  • React to information or a story with expressions of interest, surprise, disbelief, joy, sorrow
  • Express opinions and preferences



Unit 11-¿Qué estabas haciendo anoche?

Grammar

  • The Gerund in the Past
  • Comparison of adjectives
  • Infinitives
  • Describe actions that are happening at that very moment
  • Describe professions
  • Make comparisons






Unit 12-¡Que te vaya bien en el examen!


  • The Subjunctive: Present




  • Congratulating, expressing good wishes, inviting, accepting and declining an invitation, toasting, welcoming, thanking, sharing feelings in certain events and reacting in those situations
  • Ask for and give information about places, objects and customs
  • Assess, evaluate and justify ideas and facts




OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES

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Syllabus

Unit 13-¿Crees que le guste el regalo?


Grammar

  • the Subjunctive: Present




  • Express a complaint or claim
  • Value places and services
  • Express interest in products and prices
  • Express where and when something happens


Unit 14-¡No puedo creer que sea así!

Grammar

  • The Spanish subjunctive in subordinate clauses
  • The Subjunctive Present and the Indicative Present


OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES

  • React to information or a story with expressions of interest, surprise, disbelief, joy, sorrow
  • Show full and partial agreement, concurrence (and dissent), with an affirmative/negative statement
  • Ask for and offer objects, help and services
  • Ask for and give information about spots in the city. Ask for and give directions
  • Explain that all or part of what is said is not being understood, or ask if it has been understood



Unit 15-¡Te felicito por haber ganado!

Grammar

  • Subordinate phrases
  • Perífrasis Verbales

Unit 16-No se puede fumar acá.

  • Review of all the content



  • Describe actions that are happening at that very moment
  • Describe professions
  • Ask and express obligation and the necessity to do something (and their opposites) Make comparisons
  • Ask for and offer objects, help and services
  • Express impossibility, possibility or obligation to do something




OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES

  • React to information or a story with expressions of interest, surprise, disbelief, joy, sorrow
  • Congratulating, expressing good wishes, reacting in those situations
  • Ask for and give information about places, objects and customs
  • Assess, evaluate and justify ideas and facts
  • Activate knowledge and interests
  • Exchange information on dates and data
  • Propose, organize and arrange appointments
  • Make deductions