Edmonton Hispanic
Bilingual Association
School - Nonprofit organization - Education
Are you ready to try speaking in Spanish but you are at a basic or intermediate level and regular conversations seem super fast?
This class is for you! In this level you can practice speaking and listening skills with others at your level. Class will be guided by our instructors through guided questions and projects that encourage you to practice the structures learned in the the beginner and/or intermediate levels.
Learn the very basics of Spanish in order to get you through your future trip to Spanish-speaking countries. Learn basic vocabulary, expressions, and phrases to help you navigate in situations such as ordering food in a restaurant, asking and following directions, transactions at a hotel, airport or market. Only very basic grammar will be taught at this level.
The class will focus on PRACTICING (through dialogue and through written exercises) the harder-to-grasp grammar topics that were covered in the first 3 levels of our regular levels.
The main points to be covered may be:
1. Gender and number agreement in nouns and adjectives - Masculine / Feminine and Singular / Plural
2. Regular verb conjugation - Verbs -ar, -er, -ir
3. Irregular verb conjugation - Some stem-changing verbs, some pronominal verbs, and common irregular verbs (ir, tener, poner, traer, poder)
4. Verbs like Gustar
5. Direct object pronouns
6. Past participles and structure of Pretérito Perfecto
7. Prepositions - por vs. para, uses of "a"
8. Impersonal "Se"
The class will focus on PRACTICING (through dialogue and through written exercises) the harder-to-grasp grammar topics that were covered in the last 3 levels of our regular levels.
The main points to be covered may be:
1. Present tense irregular verb conjugation - Some stem-changing verbs, some pronominal verbs.
2. Past tenses: Pretérito Indefinido vs. Pretérito imperfecto
3. Uses of SER and ESTAR
4. Verbs like Gustar
5. Past tense: Pretérito Perfecto structure
6. Expressing future with "ir + a + infinitive"
7. Direct Object pronouns
8. Imperatives