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 2012
Summer Intensive: Jan 16-27
Term 1, 2012: Jan 30 - Apr 5
Term 2, 2012: Apr 23 - Jun 30
Term 3, 2012: Jul 16 - Sep 22
Term 4, 2012: Oct 8 - Dec 15
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