Course descriptions - Elementary levels
Elementary - Level 1 (15 hours)
(absolute beginners)
~ greetings and presentations
~ giving personal information: nationality, residence, profession
~ asking personal information about others
~ alphabet, pronunciation, numbers
~ locating things, describing houses
~ introduction to verb conjugation: regulars and some irregulars
Text book:
Nuevo Ven 1 Libro del alumno (ed. Edelsa, $57) and
Nuevo Ven 1 English workbook ($23)
The new edition of Nuevo Ven 1 contains 2 audio CDs with all the listening material from the text
In Elementary 1 we cover Units 1-3
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Elementary - Level 2 (15 hours)
~ locating places, asking/giving directions
~ telling time, timetables, ordering in a restaurant
~ expressing likes/dislikes/preferences: gustar
~ asking someone to do something
~ describing people
~ more irregular verbs
Text book: as for Elementary 1, Units 4-5
Elementary - Level 3 (15 hours)
~ daily routines: reflexive verbs
~ talking about the family
~ describing materials/colours/clothes
~ asking permission
~ prices/shopping
~ inviting/making/refusing a date
Text book: as for Elementary 1, Units 6-7
Upper Elementary - Level 1 (15 hours)
~ making/accepting/refusing appointments and dates
~ telephone calls
~ expressing obligation: tener que
~ describing actions happing now (present continuous): estar + gerundio
~ plans for the future: ir + a + infinitivo
~ expressing probability, doubt
~ introducing two past tenses: pretérito perfecto, pretérito indefinido
Text book: as for Elementary 1, Units 8-10
Upper Elementary - Level 2 (15 hours)
~ talk about past events (II): pretérito indefinido y pretérito imperfecto
~ travel vocabulary
~ describing one's travels and what happened
~ describing states of mind
~ ask/give information about transport/weather
~ my, your, his, her, our, their / this, that, these, those
Text book: as for Elementary 1, Units 11-12
Upper Elementary - Level 3 (15 hours)
~ more about past events (III): combining the first 3 past tenses
~ health and physical states
~ expressing obligation, possibility, prohibition
~ narrate a story, describe a person’s life
Text book: as for Elementary 1, Units 13-15
