Level teaching hours: 80 hours.

General objectives:

At this level, you will be able to understand and use common everyday expressions and simple phrases to help you meet immediate needs. You will be able to introduce yourself and others, as well as ask for and give basic information about your place of residence, your belongings or the people you know. You will also be able to communicate in a simple way with clear and simple structures.

As a social agent, the student is able to carry out basic exchanges related to immediate needs. They can participate and interact in everyday situations, following simple directions or going to the right places with the help of their interlocutor. Likewise, he/she can deal with oral and written texts that present a clear and simple structure.

As an intercultural speaker, he/she begins to become aware of how cultural diversity and his/her own identity influence the interpretation of new realities. They become familiar with some of Spain's best-known and most widely known references, and are able to recognize and cope in basic intercultural situations, as well as to understand everyday aspects of social life in the country.

As an autonomous learner, he/she identifies his/her own learning needs and relates them to the objectives, contents, methodology and evaluation of the course. In addition, he knows how to take advantage of the resources offered by the center to advance in his learning process and begins to develop strategies, taking into account the emotional factors that influence this process, in order to consolidate his knowledge and promote a good classroom environment.

Specific objectives:

Reading Comprehension

Listening comprehension
  1. Understand simple messages in cards and mailings.
  2. Recognize simple words and phrases on signs, posters, and advertisements in everyday life.
  3. Understand short and simple directions.
  1. Understand slow speech with pauses for full comprehension.
  2. Understand directions and be able to follow simple and brief directions.

Oral expression

Written expression
  1. Use simple, isolated sentences to talk about people and places.
  2. Referring to oneself: introducing oneself, describing oneself and others; talking about one's job, city and home.
  3. Read aloud short texts, such as a presentation or a short speech.
  1. Writing simple phrases and sentences.
  2. Write simple sentences about yourself, your work and the place where you live.

Contents: what will you learn?

Functional content

Grammatical content

Lexical content

Cultural content

- Greeting and responding to formal and informal greetings.

- Ask how to say something in another language.

- Ask for and give information about your country, job and profession.

- Ask for and give spatial information.

- To speak of the existence of something or someone.

- Describe people physically and character-wise.

- To ask and tell the price of something.

- Ask for and give spatial information.

- Talk about plans and time.

- Describe habitual actions and activities.

- Ask and tell time and talk about schedules.

- Express likes, dislikes, preferences, pain and discomfort.

- Talk about the weather.

- Describe places geographically.

- To express obligation.

- Expressing past actions that are related to the present.

- Personal pronouns.

- Verb ser, estar, hay and tener.

- Regular present indicative.

- The numbers.

- Verb estar and prepositions of place.

- Possessive adjectives.

- Verb costar.

- Verb ir.

- Reflexive verbs.

- Frequent expressions.

- Verb gustar and encantar.

- Me too / me neither.

- Verb doler.

- Estar + gerund.

- Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns.

- Periphrasis of obligation: have to, have to, must, must.

- Past perfect.

- Opposite adjectives.

- Gentiles and country.

- Classroom vocabulary.

- Colors.

- Professions and workplaces.

- Lexicon of the house and the city.

- Family lexicon.

- Clothing lexicon.

- Comparative adjectives.

- Transportation lexicon.

- Leisure time lexicon.

- Time.

- Food lexicon.

- Body lexicon and diseases.

- Weather lexicon.

- Housework lexicon.

- Travel lexicon.

- Spanish surnames.

- The Autonomous Communities of Spain.

- Typical Spanish family celebrations.

- Parties and special clothing.

- Typical dishes in Spain.

- Spanish schedules.

- Typical Spanish sweets and traditions.

- Weather in different areas.

- Manners and courtesy.

- Tourist areas of Spain.