Spanish Level 1 Upon completion of this course, students should be able to ask for information, express preferences and obligations, and write simple texts about everyday topics. Topics include telling time, days of the week, numbers, personal pronouns, interrogatives, and expressions of past and future activities. Information about Hispanic culture is integrated to enhance student appreciation and use of the language. After completing this level, students should have a greatly expanded vocabulary and be able to converse about everyday topics using the present and simple past tenses. Building upon the basic foundation provided in Level 1, topics include possessive adjectives, object pronouns, prepositions of distance and time, and the preterit and imperfect tenses.
Students learn to express likes and dislikes as well as to indicate possession and causation.
Spanish Level 3 Building upon the skills studied in Level 2, students continue to build their vocabulary and gain proficiency in making requests and expressing their emotions. Among the topics introduced are the present and past perfect tenses, reflexive verbs, adverbs, the present and perfect subjunctive, comparisons and superlatives, conditional forms, ordinal numbers, and indefinite and negative references. Building upon the skills already acquired, topics include expressions of condition and purpose, and the past perfect, past subjunctive and future verb tenses. Spanish Level 5 Having completed Level 5, students can expect to be able to discuss comfortably a broad range of topics as well as to read and write multi-paragraph texts. This course helps students to tie together all the elements of grammar and usage covered up to this point.