SPANISH 1

 

Book:  Ven Conmigo

          Level 1

 

 

CHAPTER 1

 

Functions

  • Saying Hello and goodbye.
  • Introducing people and responding to an introduction.
  • Asking how someone is and saying how you are.
  • Asking and saying how old someone is.
  • Asking where someone is from and saying where you are from.
  • Talking about likes and dislikes.

 

Grammar

  • Punctuation marks.
  • Pronouns YO and TU.
  • Forms of SER for origin.
  • Forming questions with COMO, CUANTOS, DE DONDE.
  • Singular definite articles EL and LA.
  • Noun and gender agreement.

 

Vocabulary

  • Numbers 0-30
  • Names of some Spanish-speaking countries
  • Sports
  • Foods
  • Musical genres
  • Classes at school

 

Culture

  • Greeting and goodbyes
  • First names and saint’s days

 

 

CHAPTER 2

 

Functions

  • Talking about what you want and need.
  • Describing the contents of your room
  • Talking about what you need and want to do.

 

Grammar

  • Indefinite articles UN and UNA, UNOS, UNAS
  • Making noun Plurals
  • Subject Pronouns EL and ELLA
  • Agreement of MUCHO and CUANTO with nouns.
  • The three types of infinitives: -AR, -ER, -IR

 

Vocabulary

  • School supplies
  • The contents of your bedroom
  • Expressions with NECESITAR and QUERER
  • Things you do and after school activities
  • Numbers 31-199

 

Culture

  • The school day in Spain and Latin America
  • Apartments in Spain
  • Spanish currency

 

 

CHAPTER 3

 

Functions

  • Talking about classes and sequencing events
  • Telling time
  • Telling at what time something happens
  • Talking about being late or in a hurry
  • Describing people and things
  • Talking about things you like and explaining why

 

Grammar

  • Plural definite articles LOS and LAS
  • Telling time with SER
  • Forms of SER
  • Posesión with DE
  • Forms of SER
  • Adjective agreement
  • Tag questions

 

Vocabulary

  • School subjects
  • Words that describe people and things
  • Free-time activities and things you like
  • Words that refer to time

 

Culture

  • Grade Scales
  • Student course loads
  • Entertainment guide.

 

 

CHAPTER 4

 

Function

  • Talking about what you like to do.
  • Discussing what you and others do during free time
  • Telling where people and things are
  • Talking about where you and others go during free time.

 

Grammar 

  • Present Tense of regular –AR verbs
  • Present tense of JUGAR
  • The contraction AL
  • CON, CONMIGO, CONTIGO
  • Use of QUE
  • Present tense of ESTAR
  • Subject Pronouns
  • Present tense of IR
  • Use of EL and LOS with days of the week

 

Vocabulary

  • Places in town and their location
  • The days of the week
  • Things you like to do
  • Talking about where you and others go

 

Culture

  • Popular sports in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Use of TU and USTED
  • Going out with Hispanic friends
  • School-sponsored activities

 

CHAPTER 5

 

Functions

  • Discussing how often you do things
  • Talking about what you and your friends like to do together.
  • Talking about what you do during a typical week
  • Giving today’s date
  • Talking about the weather

 

Grammar

  • Negation
  • Questions:  QUIEN? and QUIENES?
  • LES and A USTEDES, A ELLOS, A ELLAS
  • Regular –ER and IR verbs
  • Giving the Date in Spanish

 

Vocabulary

  • Weekend activities
  • The seasons and the months
  • Weather expressions
  • Frequency terms

 

Culture

  • Getting together with friendo
  • Seasons in South America

 

 

CHAPTER 6

 

Functions

·         Describing a family

·     Describing people

·     Discussing things a family does together

 

Grammar

  • Possessive Adjectives
  • Present tense of HACER and SALIR
  • Present tense of DEBER
  • Present tense of PONER
  • Understanding “personal A”

 

Vocabulary

  • Members of the family
  • Words that describe people
  • Household chores

 

Culture

  • Godparents
  • Privacy in Hispanic culture
  • The Hispanic Family
  • Diminutives

 

 

CHAPTER 7

 

Functions

  • Talking on the telephone.
  • Extending and accepting invitations.
  • Making plans.
  • Talking about getting ready
  • Turning down an invitation and explaining why

 

Grammar

  • E to IE stem-changing verbs
  • PENSAR + infinitive
  • IR + A + infinitive
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Expressions with TENER

 

Vocabulary

  • Places and events
  • Words used to extend and accept invitations
  • Telephone vocabulary
  • Personal chores

 

Culture

  • Common telephone expressions
  • Getting around without a car
  • Que haces para conocer una persona?
  • Party invitation

 

 

CHAPTER 8

 

Functions

  • Talking about meals and food
  • Commenting on food
  • Making polite requests
  • Ordering dinner in a restaurant
  • Asking for and paying the bill in a restaurant

 

Grammar

  • Present tense of ENCANTAR and indirect pronouns
  • Use of ESTAR to talk about how things taste
  • SER and ESTAR
  • O to UE stem-changing verbs
  • Expressions with TENER
  • The forms of OTRO

 

Vocabulary

  • The table setting
  • Food and drink items for breakfast, lunch and dinner
  • Words to describe food
  • Restaurant vocabulary

Culture

  • Breakfast in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Lunch in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Dinner in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Table manners in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Common Andean dishes
  • Latin American and Spanish tortillas

 

 

CHAPTER 9

 

Functions

  • Discussing gift suggestions
  • Asking for and giving directions downtown
  • Commenting on clothes
  • Making comparisons
  • Expressing preferences
  • Asking about prices and paying for something

 

Grammar

  • Indirect object pronouns:  LE, LES
  • ES/SON + DE + material or patern
  • Comparisons:  MAS…QUE, MENOS….QUE, TAN….COMO
  • Demonstrative adjectives

 

Vocabulary

  • Gift suggestions
  • Stores downtown
  • Words describing clothes
  • Vocabulary for shopping

 

Cultura

  • Specialty stores in Spain
  • Catalog page with clothing
  • Currency in some Spanish-speaking countries, the EURO.

 

 

CHAPTER 10

 

Functions

  • Talking about what you’re doing right now
  • Asking for and giving an opinion
  • Asking for help and responding to requests
  • Telling a friend what to do
  • Talking about past events

 

Grammar

  • Present progressive
  • Informal commands
  • Preterite tense of regular –AR verbs
  • Direct object pronouns LO and LA

 

Vocabulary

  • Festivals and holidays
  • Preparations for a party
  • Expressions for times in the past

 

Culture

  • Hispanic 15th birthday celebration
  • Hispanic Wedding celebration
  • Hispanic Piñatas

 

 

CHAPTER 11

 

Functions

  • Making suggestions and expressing feelings
  • Talking about moods and physical condition
  • Saying what you did
  • Talking about where you went and when

 

Grammar

  • The verb SENTIRSE
  • The verb DOLER with ME, TE and LE
  • The verbs IR and JUGAR in the preterite

 

Vocabulary

  • Fitness activities
  • Words to describe moods and physical conditions
  • The human body
  • Locations for sports events

 

Culture

  • Questionnaire about living well
  • Baseball in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Magazine article on relieving stress
  • American football vs. soccer

 

 

CHAPTER 12

  • Talking about what you do and like to do everyday
  • Making future plans
  • Discussing what you would like to do on vacation
  • Saying where you went and what you did on vacation

 

Grammar

  • E to IE, and O to UE stem-changing verbs
  • Verbs followed by an infinitive
  • Uses of verbs SER and ESTAR
  • Uses of preterite

 

Vocabulary

  • Vacation activities and objects
  • Wilderness activities

 

Culture

  • Spanish resorts
  • Spanish colloquialisms