Academic Plan - Flamingo Spanish School 4 weeks program A1 to B2

Basic Spanish Level A1:

Week 1 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

Introduce yourself ● ● Greetings Greetings ● ● Subjects Pronouns ● Farewells ● The alphabet Unit 1 Spelling names ● Countries in South America ● ● Verb “llamarse” ● Useful expressions ● The vowels The Class Ask and give personal ● Numbers information ●

● Subject Pronouns ● Introduce someone ● Verb “ser” simple present Unit 2 (identification, origen and ● Countries ● Ask and say the nationality nationality) Identify people Demonyms The accent Cognates ● Decir que idioma(s) habla ● Demonyms ● ● ● Languages ● Say what language you ● Verb “estar” (Place) ● speak ● Verb “hablar”

● Verb “ser” (occupation or profession) ● Ask and say the occupation or profession ● The questions ● Places where people work ● Ask and answer where a ● Indefinite article Unit 3 Parts of the day Intonation in questions The occupations better person work Number and gender of the ● ● ● ● paid in Latinoamerica Occupations ● Ask and answer where a noun ● Numbers person lives ● Regular verbs * occupation or profession ● Ask and answer the time ● Present of indicative ● Interrogative pronouns

● Identify kinship ● Article determined: gender Unit 4 relationships and number Identify the gender of Verb ser. Present of ● ● Relationships Sound /r/ Do not be confused The family objects indicative (possession, ● ● ● destination, purpose) ● Express destiny, purpose and possession ● Prepositions (de, para) Week 1 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Adjectives: gender and number Unit 5 ● Make physical and ● Adverbs of quantity (muy, personality descriptions bastante, un poco, nothing) Description of ● Adjectives ● The letter “hache” ● The Latin American family ● Express possession ● Verb “tener”. Present of people indicative ● Possessive adjectives

● Determined article ● The impersonal form “hay” ● Hay / está ● Express existence ● Interrogative pronouns (cuánto / s, cuánta / s) ● Foods Unit 6 Interact in a restaurant ● Intonation ● ● Verb “estar”. Present of ● Measures of weight ● How to prepare a good cup ● enunciative of Colombian coffee The three meals ● ask price indicative (location) ● Numbers ● Order at home ● Adverbs of place acá, aquí, ahí, allá, allí. ● Demonstrative adjectives ● Vocal change e> ie. Present of indicative

● Identify places ● The impersonal form “hay” Unit 7 ● Describe places ● Prepositions of place Some meters closer (desde, en, por, sobre, detrás ● Places of the city ● The sounds /r/ y /f/ ● The store ● Express existence or non- de, hacia) to the stars existence of a specific site ● Suffix - -ería Basic Spanish Level A2:

Week 2 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Place expressions ● Vowel change e> i. Present of indicative ● Comparatives Superiority ● Describing a home más + adjetivo + que. Unit 8 ● Parts of a house ● Make comparisons Inferiority menos + adjetivo ● The sound /ks/ ● There's no like mom’s hotel I need an + que, equality tan + adjetivo ● Objects of the house apartment ● Express general opinions + as ● Verb “ser” + adjetivo + infinitivo ● Irregular verbs, Presente de indicativo: dar, hacer, poner, tener, traer, saber

● Uses of the verb “ser” ● Verbs “ser” + adjective and “estar” + adjective, Present ● Express moods and of indicative ● Body parts character Unit 9 ● Adjectives and adverbs ● The weather ● Express physical conditions mood ● Vowel u silent ● The character of Hispanics and ailments ● Seasons How are you? Verb “doler” Present of ● Months of the year ● Describe the weather indicative ● ● Vowel change or> ue. ● Adverbs of quantity (mucho-a-os-as / muy)

● Reflexives pronouns Verbs ending in cer / cir. ● Express daily routines ● Unit 10 Present of indicative ● Express habitual actions ● Ordinal numbers The sound /b/ God helps he who ● Verbs finished in guir. ● ● Opinions of a man Express possession Present of indicative Time expressions rises early ● ● ● Express actions in progress ● Possessive pronouns ● Estar + gerund

Verb “gustar”. Present of Unit 11 Express likes and ● ● indicative There's no preferences ● Indirect object pronouns accounting for ● Express agreements and ● Hobbies and sports ● The sounds /s/ and /k/ ● The adapted sport disagreements ● Irregular verbs (decir, oir, taste Express wishes salir, ir, venir) Present of ● indicative Week 2 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Interact in a call ● Direct object pronoun Unit 12 ● Make an invitation (things and people) ● Social situations ● The syllable ● Fashion does not bother Hello? ● Make an appointment ● Verbs ending in -uir. ● Clothes Present of indicative ● Describe the clothes

● Hay que + infinitive ● Express future plans (obligation or impersonal need) ● Express probability and uncertainty ● Tener que / deber + infinitive (obligation or need) Unit 13 ● Express concession personal ● The trips ● Accent in the future tense ● Omens and predictions My plans ● Express surprise and anger ● Ir a + infinitive ● Express obligation and ● Simple future Present of need indicative ● Posing hypotheses and ● Indefinite adjectives predictions about the future ● Indefinite pronouns

● Express past and finished actions ● Preterit indefinite Unit 14 ● List facts in the past indicative. Regular and irregular verbs ● Accent in the indefinite What happened? ● Express unique and ● Diverse ● Happy Birthday Verbs ending in car, gar, preterite (Past tense) unrepeatable actions in the ● past zar. Preterite indefinite indicative Intermediate Spanish Level B1:

Week 3 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Preterit (regular and irregular verbs) ● Tell about travel ● Present historical vs. ● Transport Unit 1 experiences preterite ● Airport ● Letters(i & y) ● The bondi, combi, guagua or autobús Transport ● Formulate complaints and ● Prepositions (a, en, de) claims ● hotel ● Vowel changes e> i, o> u, i> y

● Express the realization of a ● Saber y conocer single action in completed ● Preterite indefinite of development that occurred “estar” + gerund Unit 2 at a time finished in the past ● Indirect object pronoun ● Trips ● Differentiating accent in ● Traditional holidays On vacations and ● Express knowledge about monosyllabic words holidays someone or something ● Prepositions + personal ● Indicate time, place, pronoun destination and purpose ● Prepositions (a, entre, para)

● Past Perfect indicative ● Ask for and give information about personal ● Prepositions (sin, con) experiences Unit 3 ● Direct and indirect object Express feelings and Accent in “palabras Colors and their relation to ● pronouns Physical and mood states ● ● What have you moods ● agudas” moods ● Adverbs of time: ya, aún, done? ● Make offers and todavía, alguna vez, nunca suggestions ● Tener + dolor de cabeza / tristeza

● Describe the circumstances of a past event Preterit imperfect Unit 4 ● ● Animals Express habitual actions in indicative (regular and ● Accent in “palabras graves” Urban legends From the fables to the past irregular verbs) ● Characters of classic ● ● children's stories the urban legend ● Describe people, animals ● Prepositions (a, entre, para) and places

● Contrast between preterite / imperfect Unit 5 ● Narrate fact and stories indicative ● Consonant modifications ● Inventions ● Technology Remember the past ● Describe people, objects ● Prepositions (por, para) ● (c-qu, z-c, g-gu) and experiences ● Imperfect of “estar” + gerund Intermediate Spanish Level B2:

Week 4 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Give advice and make ● Health recommendations ● Affirmative imperative Unit 6 (regular and irregular verbs) ● Health professions ● Bunch of virtues ● Give orders and A healthy life instructions (affirmatively) ● Sí + present of indicative + ● Diseases ● Manojo de virtudes imperative ● Express possible conditions ● Foods

● Negative imperative (regular and irregular verbs) ● Give advice and ● Why? recommendations ● Health Unit 7 ● Because ● Give orders and ● Diseases ● Accent in “esdrújulas y ● Relationships between Take care instructions (in a negative ● Imperative + reflexive sobreesdrújulas”words parents and children way) pronoun ● Environment ● Express causes ● Imperative + OD / OI ● Imperative + OD

● Count past and concluded actions in the past in relation to another past action. ● Preterite pluperfect indicative ● Tell experiences that ● Preterite pluperfect of United 8 happen for the first time ● Media Jorge Drexler (Uruguay), being + gerund ● Use of the r ● Star dust ● Define objects and ● Astronomy Ernesto Cadenal (Nicaragua) professions ● Relative pronouns (que, quien) ● Express the circumstances in which the actions take ● Adverbs ended in -mente place

● Express uncertainty and ● Perfect indicative future hypothesis Unit 9 “Se” to express The legend of El Dorado ● Express involuntariness ● ● Diverse ● Use of the m and the n ● What happened? involuntariness (Colombia) ● Ask and deny permission ● Poder + infinitive and favors

Express wishes Unit 10 ● ● Ask and give advice ● Simple conditional Homophones (with h and I would love to ● occupational ● ● The prophecies To make suggestions Conditional compound without h) work there ● ● ● Ask for favours Week 4 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Interpret the words of Unit 11 another ● Movie theater Homophones (with z, s and Social media of What does it say? ● Transmit information ● Direct style / indirect style ● ● ● Correspondence formulas c) communication ● Write formal and informal letters

● Present subjunctive in relative clauses (regular and ● Felipe Pelaez Unit 12 ● Influence someone's irregular verbs) ● (Colombia) behavior ● Diverse ● Use of capital letters I hope you do well ● Verbs and expressions of ● Espinoza Paz ● Express wishes information and perception ● Silvio Rodríguez ● Influence verbs Intermediate Spanish Level B2+ (Can be offered upon request):

B2+ Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Make physical and personality descriptions ● Verbs ser. Estar, tener, llevar ● Cambio de la y Unit 1 ● Express similar ● Ser + adjectives copulativa en e Human body Expressions with body Express ownership, origin, Estar + adjective ● ● Son of tiger comes ● ● parts ● Change of linker parts destination, location out painted ● Ser y estar “y” in “e” ● Make generalizations ● Adjectives ● Justify

● Express actions that started in the past, but continue in the present ● Preterite / preterite perfect of indicative ● Rafael Cárdenas ● Express facts from the past Unit 2 ● Temporal markers of the past Question ● Rafael Pombo Express actions completed Literature ● ● ● exclamation marks Tales of scares in a past also finished ● Preterite / imperfect / pluperfect ● Los cuenteros ● Describir acciones pasadas ● Verb + a + infinitivo ● Ricardo Güiraldes ● Express a previous action to another one also passed.

● Interpreting ● Imperative + direct and indirect object Unit 3 advertisements pronouns Buy two, carry ● Advise, persuade ● Present subjunctive ● Advertisement ● Change of the “o” ● The programmed to “u” obsolescence three ● Design advertisements ● Adverbial expressions ending in -mente ● Uses of “se” B2+ Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

● Es obvio, es evidente. (no) està claro...+ indicative/subjunctive ● Es lógico/es necesario/es posible.. (que) + infinitive/ subjunctive Lo + adjective/adverb es + Show agreement and ● ● infinitive Unit 4 disagreement Lo+ adjective/adverb es/son+ n. The cities Confirm a reality ● ● Small town, big ● plural ● Water ● El piracurú ● The ground's pollution hell ● Rate and review ● Discourse markers ● Express feelings ● Creo/pienso/opino / me parece... + que + verb indicative ● No creo/no pienso/no me parece...+ que verb in subjunctive ● gustar/encantar...+ infinitive / subjunctive

• Relative sentences • Describe and define known Preposition + article + relative Unit 5 objects pronoun The need • Describe and define people • Indicative subjunctive contrast in • Home and things defined relative sentences creates wise • Known / unknown antecedent • Double denial

• Expressions to accept and reject Unit 6 • Formulate proposals, proposals accept and reject them • Markers of certainty and doubt Nobody is a • Confirm a reality with indicative and subjunctive • Formulate hypotheses to • Adverbs and expressions to mark • Immigration prophet in their express probability in the hypotheses own land future • Simple future • Future compound / • Subjunctive Intermediate Spanish Level C1 (Can be offered upon request):

C1 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

• Place an action in time • Express the purpose or • conjunctive Conjunctions and temporal Unit 7 purpose of what you want to locutions achieve with an action • Final sentences • Work Work stuffs • Practice learning strategies For + infinitive / for + that + subjunctive related to reading • Prepare a resume

• Locate an action in time • Express the beginning and • Suffixes -dor / -dora, -logo / loga, -ico / ica Unit 8 duration of an action • Some verbal periphrases • Express an obstacle, an • Temporary markers Do you study or inconvenience or an • Concessional sentences concesivas aunque, a • Education objection pesar de que, aun cuando work? • Talk about problems that • Suffix -ion concern us

• Deny an action or present it as unlikely • Pluperfect subjunctive Unit 9 • Express strangeness • Qué raro / extraño + que + subjunctive, me • Citizen That’s weird! • Relate two future events parece raro / rarísimo / extraño extrañísimo + participation • Compare situations que + subjunctive • Comparative and superlative Intermediate Spanish Level C1 (Can be offered upon request):

C1 Objective Grammar Vocabulary Orthography Culture

• Preterit imperfect subjunctive Unit 10 • Express feelings • Verb of feeling in the past + que + • Express wishes subjunctive • Politics Politics • Express unreal conditions in • Me / te / le / nos / les + gustaría + infinitive, • Agricultural sector the present Me / te / le / nos / les + gustaría + que+ imperfect subjunctive • Si + imperfect subjunctive + simple condition

• Pluperfect subjunctive • Si + pluperfect subjunctive + conditional simple / compound • (No) debería, (no) tendría que + haber + past • Express conditions in the past participle, Si + pluperfect subjunctive, (+ no) Unit 11 and their consequences + conditional compound / pluperfect • Express repentance subjunctive If I had known • Express exceptions to the • Adverb / relative pronoun + verb in present conditions subjunctive • A condición de que / con tal de que / siempre que / siempre y cuando + subjunctive • Adjective undefined: cualquier /cualquiera

• Reflect on intercultural encounters • Vocabulary related Unit 12 • Transmit other people's words • Indirect style: information verbs ((decir, to intercultural Intercultural • Reflect on the importance of preguntar, afirmar, manifestar, aseverar…) + encounters learning the non-verbal system que • Non-verbal encounters when studying a foreign communication language