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TEXT: Practical Spanish Grammar  

Beginner I: Chapters 1-3 

• Greetings and good-byes
• Cognates (words that look and/or sound like English)
• Definite (el, la, los, las) and Indefinite (un, una, unos, unas) Articles
• Gender of nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns
• Basic, regular present tense verbs (-AR, -ER, -IR)
• Subject Pronouns
• Restaurant Vocabulary / Food Vocabulary
• (SER vs ESTAR)
• Numbers
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Beginner II: Chapters 3-5 

• Review of Beginner I Concepts
• More Restaurant Vocabulary
• Noun and Adjective Agreement
• Irregular Present Tense Verbs
• Review of Numbers
• Telling Time
• Interrogatives (how to ask questions)
• Airport Vocabulary
• “-go” Verbs
• Stem-changing Verbs
• Introduction to Family Vocabulary and Descriptive Adjectives
• Visit to local “tienda” to do scavenger hunt – use your Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Beginner III: Chapters 1-6 

• In Depth Review of Beginner I and II in Order to Increase Fluency
• Review of Family Vocabulary
• Review of SER vs ESTAR (to be)
• Contrast of Saber vs Conocer (to know)
• More Irregular Present Tense Verbs
• Negative Constructions
• Written Accent Marks
• Assessment of Skills
• Hotel Vocabulary
• Weather Expressions with “hacer”
• Expressions with “tener”
• Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns (This, That, Those, etc.)
• Possessive Adjectives (my, mine, etc)
• Live Dance Instruction
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Intermediate I: Chapter 7 

• Review of Basic Present Tense Verbs
• Days of the Week
• Direct Object Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs and Routines
• Introduction to Regular and Past Tense Verbs (pretérito)
• Narrating Events of the Past
• Hotel Simulation to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Intermediate II: Chapter 8 

• Review of Intermediate I concepts
• Food and Shopping Vocabulary
• Preterite (past tense) of Stem-Changing Verbs
• Preterite (past tense) of Irregular Verbs
• Idiomatic Expressions
• Visit to a Supermarket to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Intermediate III: Chapter 9 

• Banking Vocabulary
• Imperfect Verbs (past tense)
• Indirect Object Pronouns
• Gustar (to like) and Unplanned Circumstances
• Simulation of Conducting Banking Transactions to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Advanced I: Chapter 10 

• Train Station Vocabulary
• Preterite vs Imperfect (past tense contrast) Verbs
• Time Expressions with “hacer” and “llevar”
• Ordinal Numbers, Days of the Week
• Skills Assessment
• Simulation of Booking Ticket on Train to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Advanced II: Chapter 11 

• Body Parts and Health Vocabulary
• In Depth Review of Preterite vs Imperfect (contrast of past tense) Verbs
• Inequality Comparisons (Más / Menos Que / De)
• Superlatives
• Future Tense Verbs (Regular Tense)
• Guest Appearance by a Local Curandero (healer) to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Advanced III: Chapter 12 

• Health Vocabulary
• Further Review of Preterite vs Imperfect (contrast of past tense) Verbs
• Irregular Future Tense Verbs
• Irregular Conditional Tense Verbs
• Tú Commands
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Advanced IV: Chapter 13 

• Pharmacy Vocabulary
• Recap of Advanced I - III
• Conjunctions (y, e, o, u), Sino vs Pero (two forms of “but)
• Formal Commands with usted and ustedes (you singular and plural)
• Simulation of Requesting Medication in a Pharmacy to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Near Native I: Chapter 13 

• Pharmacy Vocabulary
• Recap of Advanced IV
• Present Subjunctive
• Regular and Stem Changing Verbs
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Near Native II: Chapter 14 

• Automobile Vocabulary
• Irregular Present Subjunctive
• Indicative vs Subjunctive Verbs
• Written Accents
• Simulation of Renting Automobile to use Spanish in real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Near Native III: Chapter 15 

• Mexican Bus!
• Indicative vs Subjunctive Verbs
• Skills Assessment
• Simulation of boarding and deboarding a bus to use Spanish in a real setting
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

Native - Customized Lessons - Speedy González Spanish! 

• Haber and Present Perfect Tense Verbs to Express Remote Past
• ¡Conversación, Conversación y más Conversación!

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