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Our Spanish classes syllabi

A1.1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Basic 1

A1.2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Basic 2

A2.1 level according to the CEFRL

Pre intermediate 1

A2.2 level according to the CEFRL

Pre intermediate 2

B1.1 level according to the CEFRL

Intermediate 1

B1.2 level according to the CEFRL

Intermediate 2

Intermediate 3

B1.3 level according to the CEFRL

B2.1 level according to the CEFRL

Advanced 1

B2.3 level according to the CEFRL

Advanced 3

B2.2 level according to the CEFRL

Advanced 2

39

  • Discussing various past events

  • Talking about chronicles and legends

  • Expressing intentions

  • Narrating events

  • Temporal markers and constructions

  • Uses of the imperfect tense (indicative and subjunctive)

  • Placement of adjectives

  • Uses of the gerund

Advanced

3

 

B2.3 level according to the

Common European 

Framework of Reference for Languages

40

  • Making future predictions

  • Discussing the environment

  • Debating recycling

  • Talking about news

  • Compound future tense

  • Temporal constructions

  • Text cohesion

  • Nouns, verbs, and adjectives

41

  • Talking about work

  • Analyzing companies

  • Valuing free time

  • Preparing for a job interview

  • Concessive subordinate clauses

  • Tools for reformulating or exemplifying ideas

  • Coherence and cohesion in writing

  • Resources for writing a cover letter

42

  • Discussing biographies

  • Talking about unfulfilled past actions

  • Debating education

  • Expressing regrets and reproaches

  • Pluperfect subjunctive

  • Compound conditional

  • Use and placement of pronouns

  • Emphatic constructions with causal meaning

35

  • Talking about cities and emotions

  • Sharing beliefs about towns/neighborhoods

  • Commenting on different points of view

  • Describing trips

  • Relative clauses

  • Participle for passive voice

  • Relative particles: "que," "cual," "quien," "cuyo," "donde"

  • Verbs of perception and opinion

Advanced

2

 

B2.2 level according to the

Common European 

Framework of Reference for Languages

36

  • Expressing conditions

  • Talking about calls for applications

  • Discussing exchange programs

  • Talking about contests

  • Present perfect subjunctive

  • Compound infinitive

  • Passive and impersonal constructions in the future

  • Use of relative pronouns

37

  • Describing body positions

  • Preparing for an interview

  • Expressing feelings and moods

  • Talking about theater, dance, and sports

  • Verbs of movement and change

  • Describing actions with adverbs, adjectives, and gerunds

  • Comparisons with "como si + imperfect subjunctive"

  • Uses of "poner" and "quedar"

38

  • Talking about scams and deceptions

  • Expressing purpose

  • Expressing involuntary actions

  • Mediating and resolving conflicts

  • Uses of "para"

  • Indirect speech

  • Use of pronouns

31

  • Commenting on news

  • Analyzing news and relaying information

  • Debating the role of media

  • Discussing politics and history

  • Past tenses

  • Use of the passive voice

  • Impersonal constructions with “se”

  • Anticipating the direct object

32

  • Arguing opinions

  • Debating tourism and leisure topics

  • Making proposals and negotiating

  • Expressing agreement and disagreement

  • Subjunctive for opinions (review)

  • Subjunctive for evaluations and reactions (review)

  • Tools for organizing information

  • Connectors

Advanced

1

 

B2.1 level according to the

Common European 

Framework of Reference for Languages

33

  • Giving advice

  • Expressing wishes

  • Discussing sports and traditions

  • Expressing uncertainty

  • Some uses of the conditional (review)

  • Imperfect subjunctive (review)

  • Subjunctive for expressing emotions (review)

  • Imperfect and pluperfect indicative

34

  • Comparing styles of urban subcultures

  • Expressing emotions and feelings

  • Discussing personal and romantic relationships

  • Connecting information

  • Imperfect subjunctive (review)

  • Various uses of “por” and “para”

  • Verbs with prepositions

  • Temporal correlation in relative clauses

27

  • Responding to Peruvian customs

  • Offering recommendations

  • Making assumptions

  • Simple conditional tense

  • Imperfect subjunctive tense

Interme

diate 3

 

B1.3 level according to the CEFRL

28

  • Discussing likelihoods and probabilities

  • Making speculations

  • Talking about mysterious events

  • Forming hypotheses with indicative and subjunctive moods

  • Simple and compound future tenses

  • Uses of "cuando" for different contexts

29

  • Expressing impossible situations

  • Talking about wishes (both present and past)

  • Giving advice

  • Imperfect subjunctive

  • Present and imperfect subjunctive for wishes and hypotheticals

  • Expressions for conveying desires

30

  • Quoting or relaying someone else’s message

  • Paraphrasing messages

  • Indirect speech

  • Interrogative pronouns

21

  • Sharing opinions, reacting, and expressing emotions and feelings about people, places, and situations in general

  • Learning more about life in Latin America

  • Expressing positive and negative perspectives across different contexts

  • Third-person verbs (indicative and subjunctive)

  • Use of the subjunctive to express emotions and feelings

  • Review of the present subjunctive (opinions and reactions)

22

  • Expressing needs and requirements

  • Describing the characteristics, uses, and functions of objects

  • Stating preferences, needs, and existence

  • Relative clauses: "que," "quien," "donde" + subjunctive/indicative

  • Use of prepositions

  • Subjunctive for unknown antecedents

23

  • Referring to future actions and predictions

  • Talking about future actions

  • Reviewing the near future ("ir a + infinitive")

  • Simple and compound future tense

Interme

diate 2

 

B1.2 level according to the CEFRL

24

  • Making hypotheses, speculations, and narrating mysterious events

  • Discussing probabilities

  • Alternative uses of the simple and compound future tense

  • Tools for formulating hypotheses with with indicative and subjunctive

25

  • Writing and commenting on news

  • Understanding the role of a journalist

  • Reviewing key historical events

  • Active and passive voice

  • Passive and impersonal constructions

  • Verbs used for transmitting information

26

  • Expressing recent past actions

  • Giving opinions with negative introductions

  • Present perfect subjunctive

  • Comparing ideas from the past vs. ideas about the future

15

  • Discussing life changes

  • Recounting past experiences

  • Locating an action in time

  • Verbal periphrases: "empezar a," "volver a," "acabar de," "dejar de," "estar a punto de"

  • "Llevar + gerundio," "seguir + gerundio"

  • Review of past tenses: present perfect, preterite, and imperfect

  • Temporal markers: "hace," "desde hace," "desde," "desde que"

16

  • Expressing prohibition and obligation

  • Stating general opinions

  • Discussing habits and customs

  • Describing objects or things

  • Verbs of prohibition and obligation + subjunctive / infinitive

  • Quantifiers

  • Uses of "se" + verb in 3rd person (singular or plural)

  • False friends / Vocabulary

Interme

diate 1

 

B1.1 level according to the CEFRL

17

  • Navigating different media of communication

  • Expressing and receiving mutual actions

  • Conveying messages with intent

  • Using "quedar" in place of other verbs

  • Statements for receiving and leaving written and oral messages

  • Reciprocal verbs

  • Verbs with prepositions (a, de, con, en, por)

  • Uses of the verbs "quedar" and "quedarse"

18

  • Narrating stories in the present tense

  • Telling jokes and short stories

  • Discourse connectors (beginning, development, and end of a story)

  • Direct and indirect object pronouns (Part II)

19

  • Expressing opinions, desires, complaints, and needs

  • Evaluating situations and events

  • Expressing future ideas

  • Uses of the present subjunctive (Part II)

  • Future intention: "Cuando" + subjunctive

  • "Hasta que" / "Antes de que" / "Después de que" + subjunctive

20

  • Telling anecdotes

  • Using a combination of past tenses correctly in stories

  • Narrating stories

  • Uses of the pluperfect tense

  • Review of past tenses (preterite, perfect, and imperfect)

  • Anecdote connectors

11

  • Describing the past

  • Making comparisons between the past and the present

  • Telling anecdotes and complex stories in the past

  • Uses of the imperfect tense

  • Contrast between preterite and imperfect

  • "Cuando" + various past tenses

  • "Estar" + gerund in the imperfect

Pre interme

diate 2

 

A2.2 level according to the CEFRL

12

  • Expressing wishes and recommendations

  • Agreeing and disagreeing with others

  • Giving opinions and reacting to them

  • Discussing habits, customs, and cultural differences

  • Present subjunctive: regular and irregular verbs

  • Indicative vs. subjunctive to express opinions

  • Use of connectors

13

  • Giving instructions, recommendations, tips, and advice

  • Going to the doctor and expressing pain

  • Asking for and granting permission / Giving orders

  • Uses of the affirmative and negative imperative

  • Imperative with objects

  • "Me duele(n)" + body parts

14

  • Discussing customs and habits

  • Expressing obligation or necessity

  • Offering help and discussing future plans

  • The verb "soler"

  • "Hay que + infinitive" / "tener que + infinitive"

  • "Querer que" + subjunctive

  • "Cuando" / "Hasta que" + subjunctive

7

  • Identifying, describing, and comparing people

  • Expressing personal or family relationships and possession of things

  • Expressing obligations

  • Contrast and uses of the verbs "ser" and "estar"

  • Irregular "-zco" verbs: parecerse, ofrecer, crecer

  • Possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns

  • "Tener que" + infinitive / "Deber" + infinitive

Pre interme

diate 1

 

A2.1 level according to the CEFRL

8

  • Talking about actions in the past

  • Telling biographies and important historical events

  • Preterite tense, regular and irregular verbs

  • Expressions of time: después, al cabo de, desde, desde hace

  • "Estar" + gerund in the preterite

9

  • Talking about personal experiences

  • Telling important life events

  • Avoiding redundancy

  • Present perfect tense

  • Direct and indirect object pronouns

  • Using "puede(s)" / "podría(s)" + infinitive with objects

10

  • Talking about likes and interests

  • Proposing plans and activities

  • Discussing future plans

  • Verbs "gustar," "encantar," and "interesar"

  • Exclamations: ¡Qué + adjective!

  • Future periphrasis ("ir + a + infinitive") / "Pensar" + infinitive

4

  • Talking about origin, countries, age, and profession

  • Exchanging personal information: using "tú" and "usted"

  • Using opinions to refer to people

  • Quantifiers and adverbs

  • Descriptive adjectives with the verb "ser"

  • Expressing opinions, agreement, and disagreement

Basic 2

 

A1.2 level according to the

Common European

Framework of Reference

for Languages

5

  • Location and description of places

  • Learning to give and receive directions in the city

  • Asking for information in the city

  • Narrating actions in progress

  • Irregular verbs in the present tense (in "Yo" form): "poner," "salir," "saber"

  • The verbs "estar" and "haber"

  • Indefinite articles, adjectives, and pronouns

  • Prepositions: "ir a" / "ir en"

  • Prepositions of place

  • Periphrasis: "estar" + gerund

6

  • Narrating routine activities and expressing the time

  • Talking about recommendations and preferences

  • Comparing information to find similarities and differences

  • Ordering in a restaurant

  • Reflexive verbs, both regular and irregular

  • Irregular verbs with vowel changes

  • Use of comparatives with descriptive adjectives

  • Asking questions using "qué" and "cuál"

1

  • Spelling words, pronouncing sounds, learning the sounds in Spanish

  • Basic questions for introducing oneself

  • Expressing likes and purposes

  • The verb "ser"

  • The Spanish alphabet

  • Infinitive verbs

  • Use of “Me gusta” + infinitive, and use of “para” + infinitive 

Basic 1

 

Equivalent to 

Common European

Framework of Reference

for Languages Level A1.1

2

  • Describing habitual actions in the present

  • Asking questions with frequency expressions

  • Talking about quantities

  • Present indicative: regular verbs

  • Present tense irregular verbs: ser, ir, querer, and tener

  • Numbers from 0 to 1'000'000

  • Definite and indefinite articles

3

  • Describing your city

  • Describing places, things, food, drinks, people, etc.

  • Talking about our family

  • Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns

  • Descriptive and possessive adjectives

  • Noun rules: masculine and feminine

  • Relative clauses using "que" and "donde"

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