
Mini-Summer Extension session for Spanish Adult class.

SPANISH BEGINNER 3. The THIRD segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 3 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 2 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 3:
COMMUNICATION: Identifying items, expressing needs, buying in shops, asking for products, asking about prices, etc., talking about preferences, talking about physical appearance and personality, expressing and comparing likes, dislikes and interests, asking about likes and dislikes, talking about personal relationships.
GRAMMAR: demonstratives: este/esta/estos/estas, esto, el/la/los + adjective, que + noun, cuál/cuáles, tener que + infinitive, the verbs ir and preferir, the verb gustar, quantifiers (muy, bastante, un poco), possessives, también/tampoco, diacritical accents.
VOCABULARY: numbers over 100, colours, clothes and accessories, objects in daily use, uses of the verb llevar, combinations with the verb ir, family, personality adjectives, music.
PHONETICS: the erre, intonation in questions.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 4.

SPANISH BEGINNER 3. The THIRD segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 3 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 2 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 3:
COMMUNICATION: Identifying items, expressing needs, buying in shops, asking for products, asking about prices, etc., talking about preferences, talking about physical appearance and personality, expressing and comparing likes, dislikes and interests, asking about likes and dislikes, talking about personal relationships.
GRAMMAR: demonstratives: este/esta/estos/estas, esto, el/la/los + adjective, que + noun, cuál/cuáles, tener que + infinitive, the verbs ir and preferir, the verb gustar, quantifiers (muy, bastante, un poco), possessives, también/tampoco, diacritical accents.
VOCABULARY: numbers over 100, colours, clothes and accessories, objects in daily use, uses of the verb llevar, combinations with the verb ir, family, personality adjectives, music.
PHONETICS: the erre, intonation in questions.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 4.

SPANISH BEGINNER 5. The FIFTH segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 5 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 4 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 5:
COMMUNICATION: Discover villages, neighbourhoods and cities, talk about what you like the most about a place, ask for and give directions, express tastes and highlight aspects, talking about past experiences, talking about skills and abilities, talking about people’s strengths and weaknesses.
GRAMMAR: quantifiers (algún, ningún, mucho…), prepositions and adverbs of place (a, en, al lado de lejos, cerca…), the pretérito perfecto, saber + infinitive, poder + infinitive.
VOCABULARY: services and places in cities, adjectives to discover neighbourhoods and cities, professions, personality adjectives, skills and abilities, quantifiers.
PHONETICS: dipthongs, pronunciation of /p/, /t/, /k/
Next level: Spanish High Beginner 1.

SPANISH INTERMEDIATE 2. The SECOND segment of the comprehensive Intermediate level five-course series designed for adult learners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Intermediate 2 level description:
Spanish Intermediate 2 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Intermediate 1 or possess a similar level of proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Intermediate 2:
COMMUNICATION: Express prohibition, express obligation, express impersonality, talk about habits, talk in the present tense, summarize the plot of a book or movie, tell anecdontes, tell jokes.
GRAMMAR: lo normal / lo habitual / lo raro es + infitive, soler + infinitive, quantifiers, todo el mundo / la mayoria (de...) / muchos / algunos..., es obligario / está prohibido / está permitido + infinitive, se prohíbe/n / se permite/n + noun, some connectors to relate: (y) entonces / en aquel momento, al final, de repente,de pronto etc., porque, como, aunque, sin embargo, the form and usees of the pronouns OD and OI.
VOCABULARY: Social customs, work and school, narrative genres (film, television, novels), vocabulary of movies and television.
Next level: Spanish Intermediate 3.