Spanish Elementary: language course contents
This is a summary of the students’ knowledge of Spanish language and the objectives we have in mind in Spanish elementary course.
Spanish Knowledge profile of the student before the Spanish course
The student’s conversations in Spanish language are limited to familiar topics and answers simple questions. He or she can also express basic opinions, feelings and necessities, as well as make plans. The student can read adapted short texts with simple Spanish vocabulary. Difficulties understanding in situations beyond the most familiar topics. Limited fluency and mistakes interfere in the communication in Spanish.
Level objectives in Spanish Courses for Elementary students
The objective at this level is to enable the student to maintain a conversation with more fluency in public places, to express his or her opinion, to speak about personal daily activities, to comment his or her plans about the future and previous experiences. The Spanish student can give orders and advice, as well as make comparisons.
At this level, fluency continues to have more importance but correctness also has its significance, limiting the mistakes that interfere in his or her communication. The student writes and understands notes and warnings, as well as simple real texts from which he or she is able to extract key information.
By the end of this level, the student is able to maintain conversations on aspects of everyday life, verbally and in writing, with a much more varied and active vocabulary. His or her grammar notions are still quite limited.
Spanish Knowledge profile of the student before the Spanish course
The student speaks in Spanish with relative fluency in conversations concerning everyday life, although he or she still makes many mistakes because until now fluency has been of greater importance than correctness.
Level objectives in Spanish courses for Upper Elementary
The main objective at this level is to enable the student to understand and speak in the past and future tenses. He or she should be able to speak about his or her life, to retell his or her biography, to value experiences or to express desires and basic hypotheses. The student can interpret and give orders and predictions, transmit information or messages to other people. This course prepares the student to understand written texts from real life: announcements, cinema posters, and simple brochures...
Even if fluency is still of greater importance, we will be working on correctness as well as enriching vocabulary. The structures and knowledge that the student has are reaffirmed. At this level, the main point is to increase the student’s confidence and self-assurance while speaking.
Intensive Spanish course
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