Spanish – Beginner Level

OBJECTIVES

During the course, the participants will understand and use common everyday expressions as well as simple sentences.

At the end of the course, they will be able to converse on the following topics:

  • Introduce themselves or introduce someone else, ask questions about the other person and answer similar questions
  • Salutations, name, personal characteristics and describe their profession, nationality, give their address and telephone number
  • Talk about their family, friends, neighbors, workmates
  • Learn to describe people, their physical appearance and their personality
  • Describe their neighborhood, their city
  • The services that are offered
  • Touristic areas
  • Their preferences
  • Sporting and social activities, music, food and restaurants
  • Weekly activities
  • Daily activities, personal agenda, schedule, routine, work and school
  • Communicate in a simple manner when the speaker talks slowly and clearly

 

TARGET CLIENTELE

Public

A placement test is suggested before registering for a course.

 

PREREQUISITE

None

 

COURSE SYLLABUS

  1. Communication Content
    • Use Spanish in class
    • Introduce yourself, salutation, take a vacation and use formal and informal formulae in a social setting
    • Give and ask personal information
    • Express intentions, interests
    • Express cause and purpose
    • Talk about yourself, your family and your environment
    • Name the days of the week
    • Speak about habits
    • Ask and give information about daily actions
    • Identify, describe and locate a person, thing or locations
    • Order a meal in a restaurant
      • Ask and give information about food
    • Describe clothes
    • Know and use cardinal and ordinal numbers
    • Tell time
    • Discuss your tastes, preferences and interests
      • Inquire about those of others
    • Talk about the weather and temperature
    • Speak about your physical and psychological state
    • Express obligation, necessity, agreement and disagreement
    • Speak about past experiences
    • Speak about skills and aptitudes
    • Discuss qualities and defects
  1. Grammar
    • Basic principles of phonetics and spelling in Spanish
    • Introduction to tonic accent and the accents in writing
    • Use of ser, estar and hay
    • Verbs
      • Live, have, be, speak, work, study, please
    • Conjugation of regular and irregular verbs as well as their pronunciation
    • Definite and indefinite articles
      • Their use and omission
    • The noun
      • Gender and number
    • The adjective
      • Gender and number
      • Qualifier
      • Comparative and superlative
      • Relative and absolute
      • Possessive
      • Position
    • Personal pronouns
    • Direct and indirect objects, with or without prepositions
    • Forms of politeness
  1. Vocabulary
    • Basic vocabulary
  1. Oral Expression
    • Various topics

 

Contact us for more information:

450-667-3934 Send an e-mail

 

Act regarding 1%

Our training services are accredited by the “ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale” and are subject to the Act regarding “compétences de la main d’œuvre sur la formation”. You can find all the information regarding this Act on the following Website (please note, the information is in French only):

http://emploiquebec.net/entreprises/formation/loi-competences/index.asp

 

As we are an organization that is certified by Emploi-Québec, we are able to fill out all required documents for you. Moreover, we can even find the contact person at Emploi-Québec!

 

Do not wait until the end of your financial year to prepare your training activities!

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