Academia Guiu, your official Spanish school.
We offer intensive language courses, such as our Spanish summer course, combined with leisure and cultural activities.
BALMES 58, BARCELONA
Content
Communication:
·Greeting, saying goodbye, introducing yourself and getting to know other people.
·Giving and requesting personal information.
·Talk about family, tastes, routines and daily activities.
·Describe people, places, and objects.
·Asking for and giving information about places and directions.
·Being able to navigate shops, restaurants and basic services.
·Express needs, preferences, desires and intentions.
·Talk about recent experiences and upcoming plans.
·Organize meetings and leisure activities.
·Communicate in common travel and commuting situations.
Grammar:
·Present indicative and main verbs of frequent use.
·To be, to be called, to have, to live, to go, to do, to be able and to want.
• Reflexive verbs and structures with ir a + infinitive. • Introduction to the present perfect tense.
·Gender and number, articles, demonstratives and possessives.
·Personal and interrogative pronouns.
·Expressions of quantity, frequency and agreement.
·Basic connectors to relate ideas: and, or, but, because, also, then, afterwards.
Vocabulary:
•Personal data, nationalities and professions.
·Family and personal relationships.
· Classroom and school materials.
• Housing and physical and character description.
• Food and shopping.
• City and services.
• Free time, leisure and sport.
• Travel, transport and holidays.
• Daily activities and basic technology.
Culture and intercultural communication:
· Greetings and courtesy formulas.
· Customs and routines in Spain.
• Schedules, gastronomy and popular festivals.
• Youth leisure and daily life.
• Cultural diversity of the Hispanic world.
• Sociocultural aspects of Spain and Latin America.
Communication:
· Talk about personal experiences and past events.
· Describe habits, routines and customs.
· Express tastes, preferences and opinions.
· Compare people, places, and situations.
• Tell anecdotes and recount experiences in an organized manner. • Express agreement and disagreement.
• Give advice and justify decisions.
· Express needs, desires, obligations and intentions.
· Formulate simple hypotheses.
· Talk about travel and experiences.
· Describe projects, dreams, and aspirations.
• Explain problems and propose solutions.
• Make simple complaints and handle everyday situations.
• Participate in increasingly longer and more independent conversations.
Grammar
· Consolidation of the present indicative.
· Present perfect, preterite indefinite and introduction to the imperfect.
• Contrast between times of the past.
· Expression of the future through periphrastic structures.
· Frequent periphrases: volver a, acabar de, seguir + gerund, poder, deber and soler + infinitive.
· Direct object pronouns and introduction to the indirect object.
• Comparatives and quantifiers.
· Temporal, causal and final sentences.
• Connectors and structures to express cause, consequence and temporal sequence.
• Introduction to common structures with the subjunctive mood: I want that, I hope that, it is important that…
vocabulary
• Personal experiences and daily life.
• Travel and transport.
• Technology and digital communication.
• Leisure, culture and free time activities.
• Education and university studies.
• Work and the labor market.
• Health and personal relationships.
• Housing and services.
• Environment. • Current events, traditions, and social participation. • Public procedures and services.
Communication and discourse organization
· To narrate and organize experiences and events.
· Describe situations and explain problems.
· Justify opinions and decisions.
· Express agreement and disagreement.
• Explain causes and consequences.
• Have longer conversations.
• Request clarifications and reformulate information.
· Organize the discourse using connectors such as also, therefore, then, afterwards, while, first, finally and however.
Culture and intercultural communication
• Cultural diversity of the Hispanic world.
• Customs and rules of coexistence.
• Education and university.
• Work and the labor market.
• Housing and gastronomy.
• Festivals and traditions.
• Digital communication.
• Sociocultural aspects of Spain and Latin America.
Communication
· Relate personal experiences and past events clearly.
· Describe people, places, situations, and personal and social changes.
• Express opinions and justify points of view.
• Compare alternatives and explain choices.
· Express agreement, disagreement, and doubt.
· Give advice, recommendations and proposals.
• Explain causes, consequences, and objectives.
· Expressing desires, expectations, feelings, and hypotheses.
· Talk about personal and academic projects.
· Evaluate situations and experiences.
• Defend opinions and participate in informal debates.
· To argue and counter-argue in a simple and respectful manner.
• Solve common communication problems and participate in longer conversations.
Grammar
• Consolidation and contrast of the main periods of the past.
· Past perfect, preterite and imperfect.
· Future and simple conditional.
· Main verbal periphrases: seguir + gerund, llevar + gerund, volver a + infinitive, deber de + infinitive, acabar de + infinitive.
· Direct and indirect object pronouns.
• Frequent causal, consecutive, final, temporal, concessive and conditional sentences.
· Present subjunctive and its most common uses.
• Structures with the subjunctive mood: I want that, I hope that, it seems good to me that, it is important that…
· Basic indirect style.
• Resources for reformulating, exemplifying, and synthesizing information.
• Connectors and discourse markers to organize and cohesive discourse.
vocabulary
• Personal experiences and social relationships.
• Education and training.
• Travel, international mobility and leisure time.
• Technology and digital communication.
• Health and well-being.
• Environment and responsible consumption.
• Social networks and sports.
• Professions and the world of work.
• Social participation and citizenship.
• Culture, art and current affairs.
• Contemporary society, cultural diversity, innovation and volunteering.
Communication and discourse organization
• Organize narratives and descriptions in a clear and coherent manner.
• Express justified opinions and develop simple arguments.
• Explain causes, consequences, and relationships between ideas.
· Manage speaking turns in conversations and debates.
• Request clarifications and reformulate information.
• Participate in conversations and debates on familiar topics.
· Use connectors such as also, however, therefore, so, although, while, on the one hand, on the other hand and in conclusion.
Culture and intercultural communication
• Linguistic and cultural diversity of the Hispanic world.
• Education and educational systems.
• Youth life and leisure.
• Social networks and digital communication.
• Traditions and celebrations.
• Contemporary culture.
• Citizen participation and international mobility.
• Sociocultural aspects of Spain and Latin America.
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