Sunday, August 30, 2009

Spanish 1

Curriculum focus is on pronunciation, basic grammatical structures, and vocabulary development. Topics include the following:

• Greetings and farewells, introduction of self and others, general conversation
• Spanish names
• Numbers, dates, time of day, cost of products
• Days of week, months of year, birthdates, seasons, weather
• Body parts, description of people, adjectives, colors
• Gathering individual information: where one is from, where one lives, when one was born, etc.
• Common verbs, daily activities
• Stating wants, needs, likes and dislikes
• Common nouns: things around you, common possessions, common foods
• Family members and friends
• Culture of Mexico and Hispanic Americans
• Present tense of regular and common irregular verbs