Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Beginning

There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

General Objectives
• Understand and produce the basic Spanish sounds: pronunciation
• Know the basic scheme of Spanish intonation
• To listen and comprehend different prepositions: oral comprehension strategies
• Analyze and understand types of oral discussion
• Revise and reinforce the basic contents of Spanish oral discussions

Contents
1. The Spanish alphabetical system: phonetic and graphical system
1.1-Spelling of words
1.2-Pronunciation practice
1.3-Practice of the complex sounds

2. Intonation: enunciation, interrogation, exclamation

3. Auditory comprehension: Listening with different purposes
3.1-Global comprehension
3.2-Specific or selective comprehension
3.3-Total comprehension

4. Oral Discussion: Understand and produce different types of texts
4.1-The descriptive text
4.2-Instructional text
4.3-Narrative texts
4.4-Argumentative texts

5. Oral Interaction: Communicating in Spanish
5.1-Dialog and conversation
5.2-Reactions to communicatively coded situations

6. Reinforce basic contents of communication
6.1-Communicative functions
6.2-Gramatical questions
6.3-Vocabulary