Students will reinforce their Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study:
- Listening comprehension
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
Tutoring Description
The Spanish 1-2 tutoring is designed to help students with concepts such as verb conjugations and to motivate students to communicate in Spanish . It is highly recommended that all students devote at least 2-3 extra hours of study time on their own to master common vocabulary terms and phrases.
Focus will be placed on grammar structures, and verb conjugations. Such as:
- Present Tense regular, irregular, stem changers, orthographical changers, and super irregulars.
- Preterite, regular, irregulars, uses
- Imperfect, conjugations and uses
- Number and gender concordance
- Ser vs. Estar
- Por vs. Para, etc.
Emphasis will be placed in responding appropriately to basic conversational prompts; generate language incorporating basic vocabulary and grammar patterns; analyze and compare cultural practices, products, and perspectives of various Spanish-speaking countries.
Available Textbooks: Realidades 1, Realidades 2; Descubre 1, Descubre 2, Buen Viaje 1, Buen Viaje 2, Breaking the Spanish Barrier 1, Breaking the Spanish Barrier 2, Breaking the Spanish Barrier Advanced
Goals:
- Communicate 100% in Spanish.
- Set a strong foundation of grammar understanding
- Develop confidence to continue on with Spanish 3-4