Learning Spanish: Class #1 for Beginners Public Class

Thursday, June 25 2009 | 7:30 AM (SA Eastern Standard Time)

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Price:
$7 per attendee
Duration:
70 minutes

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About the Class

The Spanish Language Course “Comunicándonos”, from start, enables early-beginner students of Spanish to manage basic linguistic situations, through the learning and practicing of functions, contents, grammar and the development of linguistic and communication skills.

The course values the importance of significant exposure to the new language, intensive practice, cooperative learning and regular tutoring, key elements to learning any foreign language (both face-to-face and online).
It makes use of a variety of resources to make the experience productive and intensive.
The first Module of the Course is called “Who are you?” (¿Quién eres?) and consists of:

  • 11 classes /meetings. Three/Four times a week: you decide!
  • 12th meeting: Mini test for formative purposes mainly
The virtual meetings have amusing and relevant in-class activities and significant assignments to be done individually and/or in pairs to consolidate what is presented in class.

This is first class of Module #1 series of twelve lessons and includes:
  • Greetings
  • Introduction
  • Polite expressions
  • Basic Classroom and Everyday language
In order that students are (better) able to:
  • Socializing in simple situations
  • Introduce themselves
  • Read or listen and understand simple dialogues
  • Access and work with free online resources
Prerequisites:
  • No necessary previous knowledge of Spanish
  • To have at least intermediate level of English
  • Microphone for oral activities (repetition, reading, answering, etc)

Language of instruction:

Keywords: spanish, spanish language, greetings, introduction to spanish, classroom language, polite expressions, languages

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I am an EFL teacher and teacher trainer working for the University of Catamarca (Argentina) and freelance. I have been teaching foreign languages (English, Spanish, and more recently Portuguese and French) for around 18ys in formal and informal contexts and for different ages and levels. I am Regional Manager of Spanish South America Language and Travel group. My main research and training interest areas are: use of games, unconscious acquisition of grammar in Foreign Languages learning, ICT use in teaching FL, autonomous learning.
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