GENERAL AIM
To understand and express oneself in daily situations and those situations related to the learner’s personal experience, with basic linguistic resources. To exchange simple and direct information.

SPECIFIC AIMS
Listening comprehension: To understand the meaning of conversations held between two native speakers whose topic is related to the personal experience of the learner.

Oral production: To express oneself by means of simple linguistic structures in daily situations and topics related to the experience of the learner.

Reading comprehension: To understand the general meaning of short texts related to daily life and to the personal experience of the learner.

Writing skills: To make out lists, write notes and short texts related to daily life and to the personal experience of the learner.

LIST OF CONTENTS

1. Communicative Content
• Communication control: how to say, how to pronounce, how to write or translate something.
• Express purpose.
• Give and ask for information about one’s name, nationality, age and profession.
• Identify, define, classify.
• Give and ask for information about the location of objects and places.
• Give and ask for information about quantities, exact and approximate.
• Express and ask about preference.
• Refer to the characteristics of objects: use, weight, origin,....
• Make comparisons.
• Contrast information.
• Identify objects in a collection by their shape, brand, color, location, etc.
• Describe people on a basic level by their physical appearance and their character.
• Speak about similarities.
• Evaluate activities.
• Speak about plans and projects.
• Speak about the past.
• Express likes and interests.
• Show agreement and disagreement.
• Emphasize the important elements of something.
• Propose an activity: offer, invite, accept and refuse.
• Conversations in a restaurant situation.

2. Grammatical Content:
1. Forms of the indefinites: uno(s), otro, ningún, ninguno/a.
2. Uses of the prepositions a and en, in spatial relations.
3. Verbs of movement with prepositions: hasta, por, de ... a.
4. Cuanto(s)/a(s).
5. Forms and uses of the gerund: estar + gerund.
6. Forms and syntax of gustar, encantar, interesar.
7. Basic contrasts of intonation between the Spanish language of America and that of Spain.
8. Superlatives ending in -ísimo.
9. Uses of estar for localisation.
10. Basic contrasts between ser and estar for description.
11. Present perfect: morphology and uses.
12. Morphology of the participle.
13. Time expressions: hoy, últimamente, este mes/año. El próximo, el mes/año que viene, dentro de
14. Adverbs of frequency: alguna vez, varias veces, muchas veces, nunca.
15. Ya / todavía no.
16. Pronouns of the direct and indirect object.
17. Reduplication of the indirect object.
18. Parts of the day.
19. Days of the week, months and seasons.
20. Uses of the present to speak about the future.
21. Ir a + infinitive, pensar + infinitive.
22. Exclamatory phrases with ¡qué ... ! and ¡qué ... tan ...!
23. Exclamatory phrases with ¡como + the present ...!
24. The positive imperative.
25. Expressions of causes and excuses: como, porque, lo que pasa, es que, es que.

3. Cultural Content of the Beginner Level:
- General norms of behaviour in Spanish society.
   - Elemental phrases for communication: expressive resources.
   - Body language: distances.
- Stereotypes:
   - How do the Spanish consider foreigners?
   - How do foreigners consider the Spanish?
- Daily life:
   - timetables: work, business and leisure time.
   - meals and food.
- The family: general characteristics.
- Geographical situation and general characteristics of Spain.
- The Democracy:
   - the autonomous regions
   - the Monarchy.
- Introduction to the main Spanish cultural artistic expressions:
   - flamenco
   - bullfighting.