Spanish For Beginners

Functional Content

• Say hello and goodbye.
• Introducing someone and reacting to being introduced. (Meet people).
• Ask for forgiveness.
• Give the thanks.
• Point out that it is not understood.
• Ask someone to speak more slowly or louder.
• Request a repetition of what was said.
• Spell out and request to be spelled.
• Request that something is written.
• Identify people, places, and objects.
• Describe people, places, and objects.
• Refer to current or habitual actions.
• Refer to plans and projects.
• Express agreement and disagreement.
• Express knowledge or ignorance.
• Express and ask if it is possible or not to do something.
• Express and ask for pleasure and pleasure.
• Express and ask for desire and need.
• Invite and offer something. Accept or decline invitations and offers.
• Start and end the speech

Cultural Content

• Ways of greeting and presentation.
• The use of the language in various social situations in the Hispanic world.
• Presentation of some Panamanian and Hispanic cities.
• Presentation of a famous person from the Hispanic world.

Grammar

• Basic phrases (greetings, farewells).
• Important Commands for the class.
• Basic questions (what, how, which, all questions).
• Survival phrases, invitations, requests, etc.
• Alphabet. Basic concepts of pronunciation and intonation.
• The noun. The adjective. The concordance. Articles.
• Days of the week, months, and seasons of the year.
• The numbers.
• Pronouns.
• Elementary uses of SER.
• Elemental uses of ESTAR.
• HAY and ESTAR.
• Demonstrative.
• Possessives.
• Adverbs of place.
• Basic prepositions of place.
• Verb do (depends on the student, you can go before).
• Regular present.
• Present Irregular (more frequent).
• Uses of knowing and knowing.
• Some modal verbs: power, want, have to.
• Most frequent reflexive verbs.
• Verb like.
• Basic conditional.
• Past Indefinite, the most frequent regular and irregular verbs (ser, estar, tener).
• GO TO + INFINITIVE.