SEÑORA SOLANO’S SPANISH I – COURSE CONTENTS
During this course, you will learn:
VOCABULARY
1. ABCs
2. Simple physical descriptions
3. Simple personality traits
4. Question words
5. School/classes/classroom related vocabulary
6. Construction of numbers up to a hundred
7. Colors
8. Activities you enjoy or not
9. Body parts
10. Commands
COMMUNICATION
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To spell words in Spanish
To describe yourself
To describe other people
To ask basic information questions to/about someone else (name, activities, description)
To state basic information about yourself or someone else (name, activities, description)
To ask and state basic information about schedules
To ask and tell time
To ask and state basic commonly used phrases
Greetings and goodbyes
Courtesies
GRAMMAR
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When to use a feminine or masculine word
When to use a singular or plural word
The placement of adjectives and negative words
When to use a definite/indefinite article
Question words
How to conjugate/use the verb SER (To be) in present tense
The difference between Tú and Usted and when to use them
How to conjugate/use basic –AR verbs in present tense
How to conjugate/use basic –ER and –IR verbs in present tense
How to conjugate the verb TENER
SEÑORA SOLANO’S SPANISH I – COURSE CONTENTS (cont.)
During this course, you will learn:
CULTURE
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Differences between races, ethnic backgrounds, and countries of origin
Differences between school life in the US and Latin America/Spain
Differences about physical descriptions
Geographic and Historic information
Artistic information
Songs and dances
Basic information on your specifically assigned country
LISTENING
1. Most of what is being said to you even if you cannot reply
2. Most of the questions that the teacher/classmates ask you
3. How to take dictations from your teacher
4. The words of studied songs even if you cannot sing them
5. The sounds of Spanish letters/words even if you cannot reproduce them
SPEAKING
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To respond to basic questions about yourself/others
To pronounce studied words even if you do not sound like a native speaker
To spell a word out loud even if you don’t know it
To ask basic questions
To engage in basic dialogues
READING
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Most of the words that appear in the short stories we read in class
How to get the gist out of a new story
The reasons why some language structures are the way they appear on the text
To answer comprehension questions about a reading even if you don’t know all the
vocabulary
WRITING
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How to take a dictation of any spelled word even if you don’t know it
How to take a dictation of studied words/phrases
To create bilingual cross-word puzzles
To ask/answer basic questions
To create short dialogues
To write captions for picture stories
To summarize a studied story
To write a simple original short story using studied vocabulary