Level teaching hours: 120 hours.

General objectives:

At this level, you will be able to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas which are particularly relevant to you, such as basic information about yourself and your family, shopping, places of interest or work. You will be able to communicate in simple, everyday situations requiring simple and direct exchanges of information on familiar or routine topics. In addition, you can describe in simple terms aspects of your past and your environment, as well as matters related to your immediate needs.

As a social agent, the student is able to carry out basic transactions related to immediate needs. Participates and interacts in daily life situations within his/her immediate environment, using a brief repertoire of formulas to communicate. In addition, he/she is able to deal with oral and written texts with a clear and simple structure, identifying the relevant information for comprehension.

As an intercultural speaker, he/she becomes aware of the influence of cultural diversity and his/her own identity in the interpretation of new realities, taking advantage of this diversity as a source of learning. He/she becomes familiar with the best known and most widely known referents of Spain and Latin America, and is able to recognize and develop in intercultural situations, acting as an intermediary between cultures and understanding basic aspects of social life in these contexts.

As an autonomous learner, identifies his/her learning needs and relates them to the objectives, contents, methodology and evaluation of the program. He/she takes advantage of the different resources offered by the center to favor his/her progress and develops his/her own strategies, taking into account the emotional factors that influence learning, in order to consolidate his/her knowledge and contribute to a positive classroom environment.

Specific objectives:

Reading Comprehension

Listening comprehension
  1. Read and understand short and simple texts in the present, past and future tenses.
  2. Locate specific information in everyday texts.
  3. Understand short, simple letters and e-mails.
  1. Understand sentences and common vocabulary on topics of personal interest related to basic personal and family information, employment and shopping.
  2. Understand the general idea of information from short, clear and simple notices and messages.

Oral expression

Written expression
  1. Communicate through simple and direct social exchanges on everyday topics, using the present, past and future tense, although not yet able to carry on a conversation autonomously.
  2. Use basic expressions and phrases to describe in a simple way their family and other people, as well as their living conditions, education and current or previous work experience.
  1. Write simple and brief personal notes, messages, letters and mails in a simple form, related to the student's needs.
  2. Briefly describe past events and activities, as well as personal experiences.

Contents: what will you learn?

Functional content

Grammatical content

Lexical content

Cultural content

- To introduce oneself, to introduce someone.

- Expressing an opinion.

- Talk about the recent past.

- Give information and talk about actions and experiences.

- Expressing past actions in the present tense.

- Talk about specific actions in the past.

- To value an experience or a trip in the past.

- Talk about historical facts.

- Narrate historical facts.

- Narrate important events in a person's life.

- Relate past actions.

- Describe people, objects and places of the past.

- Make comparisons.

- Describing people and habitual actions in the past tense.

- Talk about facts, habits and customs of the past compared to the present.

- To talk about the circumstances in which an event took place.

- Narrate real or fictitious events and stories.

- Talk about future actions.

- Ask for and give advice and suggestions.

- Express courtesy.

- Express a desire.

- To express a future action with respect to a past action.

- Regular and irregular present indicative.

- Review of valuation constructions.

- Past perfect: morphology, usage and temporal markers.

- Pretérito indefinido: morphology, use and temporal markers.

- Contrast of past perfect and indefinite.

- Ser and estar: general uses.

- Adjectives with change of meaning with ser and estar.

- Comparative.

- Obligation, permission and prohibition structures.

- Pretérito imperfecto: morphology, use and temporal markers.

- Contrast of preterite indefinite and imperfect.

- Future imperfect: morphology, usage and temporal markers.

- Simple conditional: morphology and usage.

- Daily activities, free time, interests and tastes.

- Lexicon of places and activities to relate experiences (museums, cities, restaurants, concerts, exhibitions...).

- Lexicon on travel stays.

- The biography.

- Lexicon of physical and character traits.

- Lexicon of healthy and harmful habits.

- Lexicon of typical Spanish customs.

- Lexicon related to stories.

- Environmental lexicon.

- Health-related vocabulary.

- Specific vocabulary for giving advice and making suggestions.

- The leisure time of Spaniards.

- The April Fair.

- Typical tourist destinations.

- Spanish celebrities.

- Social norms in Spain.

- La movida madrileña.

- Women in the 1980s.

- Legends of St. George and La Llorona.

- The horoscope and the Spaniards.

- Public health care in Spain and Latin America.