El Patio Spanish Language School


Spanish Language School


Course descriptions, Upper Elementary levels


Upper Elementary 1 (15 hrs, 10 weeks)

  • making/accepting/refusing appointments and dates
  • telephone calls
  • expressing obligation: tener que + infinitive
  • describing actions happing now (present continuous): estar + gerundio
  • plans for the future: ir a + infinitive
  • expressing probability, doubt
  • introducing the first past tense: pretérito perfecto, haber + past participle
  • introducing past tenses: pretérito indefinido, simple past
  • Textbooks as for Elementary 1, Units 8-10

Upper Elementary 2 (15 hrs, 10 weeks)

  • talk about past events: pretérito indefinido used with 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
  • Textbooks as for Elementary 1, Units 11-12

Upper Elementary 3 (15 hrs, 10 weeks)

  • more about past events: combining the first 3 past tenses
  • health and physical states
  • expressing obligation, possibility, prohibition
  • narrate a story, describe a person’s life
  • Textbooks as for Elementary 1, Units 13-15
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Term dates 2010

Term 3: July 19 - Sept 25
Term 4: Oct 4 - Dec 11

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