Home - ILASO
|
Contact Us - ILASO
INTERMEDIATE GRAMMAR AND CONVERSATION 1
45 CONTACT HOURS
19-105
BACK «
Students should have a basic knowledge of Spanish. The course includes conversation, reading and discussion of simple texts. In addition to using more complex vocabulary, there is an introduction to the history and the use of the personal pronoun "vos"
CONTENTS
WEEK 1:

1. Introduction to the regular indefinite preterit (past absolute)
2. Introduction to the indefinite Preterit with irregularities
3. Comparisons of adverbs, adjectives, and nouns
4. Intensification adverbs
5. Direct and Indirect complements combined
6. Irregular endings of the preterit: __gar, ___car, ___zar

Activities

1. Card game: Verbs and pronouns
2. Create a conversation based on a cartoon
3. Reading and discussion about a real-life subject of general interest
4. Listening exercises to review intensification verbs
WEEK 2:

1. How to form the Imperfect tense: __AR, __ER, __IR, and the three irregular verbs
2. Uses of the Imperfect tense
3. Past progressive
4. Comparison of the Preterit and the Imperfect
5. Había vs Hubo
6. Ordinal numbers
Activities

1. Writing of a letter to the I.E.E applying the prenominals
2. Description of disasters and accidents
3. Poster with drawings to practice the Past progressive
4. Practice and compositions of the Preterit and Imperfect tenses
WEEK 3:

1. The use of enclitics with gerunds and infinitives
2. The personal "a"
3. Narrative expressions
4. Use of POR and PARA
5. Idiomatic expressions with POR and PARA
6. The Informal Imperative "vos"
Activities

1. Narrate everyday situations using narrative expressions
2. Card game applying POR or PARA
3. Real situations to practice the Imperative
WEEK 4:

1. The use of the verb "TO BECOME" in Spanish forms
2. The Imperative with the first person plural
3. The Imperative with the second person plural
4. Introduction to prepositional verbs
5. Darse cuenta de (To realize...)
Activities

1. Real situations to practice the Imperative
2. Card game: preposition verbs
3. Written practices and oral situations
WEEK 5:

1. Introduction to the indicative Preterit Perfect with regular and irregular participles
2. Introduction to the Pluperfect indicative
3. Introduction to the Future Perfect
4. Introduction to the Imperfect Conditional emphasizing its use as a conjecture from the present

Activities

1. Writing and telling stories
2. Starting from a short text, elaborate on questions so that the student can answer with the probable conditional
3. Writing practices
Phones USA (305) 433-5898 - CR (011)(506) 837-7831 | (011)(506) 375-9282 - Fax USA (305) 675-0485 CR (011)(506) 241-6470
Emails info@learningincostarica.com | ilaso@learningincostarica.com | ilasocr@gmail.com
Mail Box ILASO SJO 5420 P.O.Box 025331 Miami, FL 33102 - 5331 USA
© 2007 All rights reserved.
Design by TicoStyle®