Course overview
This elementary Spanish language course builds on Level 01 and develops learners’ ability to manage a wider range of familiar social, travel and routine workplace interactions. Participants consolidate present-tense accuracy, communicate about past events and future plans, expand their practical vocabulary, and strengthen listening, speaking, reading and writing through guided tasks and authentic scenarios.
Training methodology
Instructor-led mini-lessons with demonstrations and supported communicative practice.
Pair work, information-gap tasks, simulations and practical role-plays.
Progressive listening and reading exercises using short contextualized materials.
Guided writing, pronunciation coaching, spaced vocabulary review and corrective feedback.
Frequent formative checks and an integrated final performance assessment.
Target competencies
- Maintain connected conversations about everyday routines, experiences and plans.
- Apply elementary grammar and core verb forms in familiar contexts.
- Understand the main points of clear, short spoken and written messages.
- Write organized short messages, descriptions and simple personal correspondence.
- Use appropriate politeness, register and repair strategies when communication is difficult.
Course objectives
- Describe daily life, people, locations and personal experiences in greater detail.
- Narrate simple completed actions and discuss intentions and upcoming activities.
- Ask for clarification, make arrangements and solve common practical problems.
- Express preferences, comparisons, opinions and reasons using connected sentences.
- Read short practical texts and compose coherent paragraphs and messages.
- Demonstrate readiness to progress to Spanish Language – Level 03.
Course outline
Level 01 Review and Communicative Confidence
- Revisiting greetings, introductions, routine questions and common responses.
- Refreshing subject pronouns, agreement and high-frequency present-tense verbs.
- Identifying individual learning needs through short diagnostic exchanges.
- Developing strategies for extending a conversation beyond one-word answers.
Pronunciation, Rhythm and Listening Accuracy
- Practicing word stress, accent marks and Spanish syllable patterns.
- Distinguishing challenging consonants and vowel sequences in context.
- Recognizing connected speech in slow, clear everyday dialogues.
- Using repetition and self-monitoring to improve intelligibility.
Present Tense: Regular and Irregular Verbs
- Consolidating -ar, -er and -ir conjugations in meaningful sentences.
- Using common irregular verbs such as tener, venir, hacer and salir.
- Asking and answering questions about habits and current circumstances.
- Applying subject omission and natural word order in short conversations.
Reflexive Verbs and Daily Routines
- Using reflexive pronouns with levantarse, vestirse and acostarse.
- Sequencing a typical weekday and weekend with time expressions.
- Comparing personal routines and discussing frequency.
- Writing a connected description of a daily schedule.
Ser, Estar and Hay in Context
- Distinguishing identity, characteristics, condition and location.
- Using hay to describe availability and what exists in a place.
- Describing changes in mood and temporary states.
- Correcting common errors through practical speaking tasks.
People, Relationships and Descriptions
- Expanding vocabulary for family, colleagues and social relationships.
- Describing appearance, personality and responsibilities.
- Applying adjective agreement, position and common intensifiers.
- Introducing someone and providing a fuller personal profile.
Homes, Neighborhoods and Local Services
- Describing rooms, furnishings and neighborhood amenities.
- Using location expressions and prepositions with familiar places.
- Comparing accommodation and discussing practical needs.
- Interpreting short property listings and local service notices.
Shopping, Quantities and Consumer Choices
- Requesting sizes, colors, quantities and product information.
- Using demonstratives, basic object references and price expressions.
- Comparing products and asking about availability or alternatives.
- Role-playing exchanges, purchases and simple customer queries.
Food, Dining and Preferences
- Reading menus and identifying common ingredients and meals.
- Using gustar, encantar and preferir to express tastes.
- Making reservations, ordering and requesting changes politely.
- Explaining dietary preferences and responding to routine service questions.
Past Events: Introduction to the Preterite
- Forming regular preterite verbs to describe completed actions.
- Recognizing frequent irregular forms in common expressions.
- Using ayer, anoche and la semana pasada for past time reference.
- Describing a recent outing, visit or completed task.
Telling Simple Stories in the Past
- Organizing short narratives with primero, después and finalmente.
- Asking follow-up questions about past experiences.
- Combining actions, places and people in a coherent account.
- Writing a brief account of a memorable day or trip.
Future Plans and Arrangements
- Using ir a + infinitive to express near-future intentions.
- Discussing plans with dates, times and sequencing expressions.
- Inviting others, accepting, declining and suggesting alternatives.
- Arranging a meeting or social activity through dialogue and messages.
Travel, Transport and Directions
- Discussing transport options, schedules and ticket requirements.
- Asking for and explaining routes using movement verbs and landmarks.
- Handling common travel questions and minor disruptions.
- Reading simple itineraries, signs and booking information.
Health, Wellbeing and Appointments
- Naming common symptoms and basic health concerns.
- Using tener, doler and sentirse in everyday contexts.
- Requesting appointments and describing simple problems.
- Understanding basic instructions and common advice expressions.
Obligations, Permissions and Recommendations
- Using tener que, hay que, poder and deber with infinitives.
- Explaining rules, duties and possibilities in familiar settings.
- Making polite requests and offering straightforward advice.
- Responding appropriately to practical instructions.
Comparisons and Expressing Opinions
- Forming comparisons with más que, menos que and tan como.
- Using common superlative structures in familiar descriptions.
- Expressing likes, dislikes and opinions with simple reasons.
- Comparing destinations, activities and everyday products.
Object Pronouns in Everyday Exchanges
- Recognizing direct object pronouns in high-frequency examples.
- Replacing repeated nouns in short statements and questions.
- Introducing common indirect object pronouns in practical exchanges.
- Practicing pronoun placement in simple affirmative sentences.
Connected Speech and Conversation Strategies
- Linking ideas with porque, pero, entonces and también.
- Asking speakers to repeat, slow down or clarify meaning.
- Taking turns, checking understanding and maintaining topic continuity.
- Practicing short unscripted conversations with guided prompts.
Reading Everyday Authentic Materials
- Identifying purpose and key information in emails, notices and advertisements.
- Scanning timetables, menus and short online descriptions for details.
- Inferring familiar vocabulary from context and visual cues.
- Summarizing main ideas in simple spoken or written Spanish.
Writing Messages and Short Paragraphs
- Composing friendly invitations, confirmations and thank-you messages.
- Writing connected descriptions of events, routines and plans.
- Using basic punctuation, accents and paragraph organization.
- Revising drafts for clarity, verb agreement and word choice.
Spanish for Routine Workplace Interactions
- Greeting clients and colleagues using appropriate register.
- Describing schedules, tasks, availability and simple requests.
- Handling basic telephone or reception exchanges.
- Writing brief workplace messages and confirming arrangements.
Integrated Practice and Final Assessment
- Completing practical simulations combining past events and future plans.
- Demonstrating listening comprehension through short task-based activities.
- Producing a short reading response and structured written message.
- Receiving individualized feedback and a progression plan for Level 03.