High Beginning Spanish Grammar and Writing

Course Description:
Pre-intermediate level course, whose contents are framed within level A2 of the Common Framework
Reference European Council (CEFR), and in which, from a communicative perspective, the development
integrated and meaningful of fundamental linguistic skills, and more specifically of the skills
written (comprehension, expression and interaction). Likewise, emphasis is placed on teaching the contents
lexical and grammatical, always seeking to respond to the communicative and academic needs of the
student.
To reach the CEFR level it is essential to complete 90 teaching hours and complement this course with
that of Spanish Language. Oral skills. PRE-INTERMEDIATE level (A2).
Course methodology:
The orientation of the program is communicative, both in its purposes and in the methodology it follows. It
means that the objectives, at their different levels of concreteness, are set in terms of usability
of the tongue; that the contents are derived from the objectives thus established; and that the work methodology
is based on carrying out use activities, accompanied by the necessary reflection processes on
the language that facilitate the internalization and mastery of its various structures and units.
Course objectives:
THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE
⦿ Know how to communicate in an understandable and clear way in everyday situations of basic survival and,
although interruptions and misunderstandings may occur, even in infrequent situations.
⦿ Know how to describe, in simple terms, aspects of one's own past, and exchange information about
daily activities, personal topics, tastes and interests.
⦿ Know how to interact in social encounters and situations within the closest social sphere.
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
⦿ Have a limited repertoire of simple linguistic and non-linguistic resources, such as structures
basic syntactics and general knowledge about social conventions and cultural references of the
Hispanic world, to be able to carry out habitual activities and daily transactions.
⦿ Have sufficient vocabulary and grammatical structures to deal with short and
even to texts issued by the media (press, television, etc.), although they clearly require
frequent reformulations, repetitions and visual support to ensure understanding.
Course contents:

NOTIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL CONTENTS
⚫ Greet and say goodbye
Introduce someone and react to being introduced
⚫ Identify and describe people, places and objects
⚫ Inform about one's own academic or professional situation
⚫ Talk about habits in the present
⚫ Express tastes and preferences
⚫ Express physical sensations
⚫ Advise
⚫ Refer to actions and situations from the past
⚫ Refer to plans and projects
⚫ Make an appointment
⚫ Give and ask for opinions about someone or something
⚫ Express (and ask for) agreement and disagreement
⚫ Express (and ask about) the possibility or impossibility of doing something
⚫ Ask for a favor
⚫ Make an invitation or offer something, accept it and reject it
⚫ Offer help, ask for it, accept it and reject it
⚫ Apologize, thank and congratulate; react appropriately
⚫ Express conditions
⦿ GRAMMATICAL CONTENTS
Morphology
Introduction to the basic morphology of Spanish:
⚫ Inflection: gender, number, person
⚫ Forms and members of the basic paradigms: The article
⚫ The personal pronoun
⚫ The demonstratives
⚫ The possessive ones
⚫ The indefinite and the quantitative
⚫ The interrogatives
⚫ The numerals
⚫ The verb: Morphology of the most frequent regular and irregular forms of the following
time; more general usage contrasts:
⚫ The present indicative
⚫ The past perfect indicative
⚫ The imperfect indicative tense
⚫ The indefinite past tense
⚫ The imperative
⚫ Non-personal forms (infinitive, gerund and participle)
⚫ The most frequent adverbs
⚫ Introduction to the pronominal system
Syntax
⚫ Basic syntactic relationships: concordances
⚫ Basic syntactic structures: the noun phrase, the verbal phrase, the simple sentence, the
coordination
⚫ Most frequent prepositions and conjunctions
⚫ Affirmative, negative, interrogative and exclamatory sentences: syntax and prosody
⚫ Introduction to impersonal constructions
⚫ Verbs with special regime (like, hurt)
⚫ Introduction to verbal periphrases (Ir + a + Infinitive, power + Infinitive)
⚫ Phrases with reflexive verbs
⚫ Unstressed pronouns
⚫ The comparison

The basic vocabulary to discuss the following topics:
⚫ Personal details
⚫ Name and surname, age, sex, place and date of birth, marital status
⚫ Nationality
⚫ Physical appearance
⚫ Family and personal relationships
⚫ Health and the human body
⚫ Body parts
⚫ Clothing, garments and personal items
⚫ Housing and the city
⚫ Furniture, rooms and utensils of a home
⚫ Buildings and public places