General Spanish Online Course
This is the syllabus we follow in our General Spanish Course. Refer here for levels and progress.
Chapter
Content
1A. It was a long time since we’d seen each other
- Telling stories using different tenses
- Expressing change or transformation
- Contrasting the use of “ser” and “estar” with certain adjectives
- Expressing retrospective advice or suggestions
1B. Problems aren’t solved by crying
- Expressing temporality
- Expressing conditions
- Expressing objections
- Regretting past actions
2A. You should have put a scarf on!
- Expressing retrospective advice or suggestions
- Rejecting a current action
- Expressing annoyance
- Warning or threatening someone
2B. You’re gifted at music
- Emphasizing a person’s characteristics
- Expressing conditions
- Expressing feelings and points of view
- Talking about desires and hypothetical conditions
3A. Imagine how difficult his life was!
- Emphasizing opinions and comments
- Reacting with surprise to different situations
- Attracting someone’s attention
3B. They say that….
- Referring to other people’s opinions
- Deriving words from other words
- Making observations about everyday events
- Asking for clarification of a message
4A. How do you contribute to your community?
- Recognizing and analyzing verbs that take prepositions
4B. Rights
- Talking about social obligations
- Expressing satisfaction, indifference and surprise
- Making reference to improbable situations
4C. I’d like to make a formal complaint
- Making complaints
- Writing letters of complaint
5A. Promises and more promises
- Expressing disappointment or discontent
- Making suggestions and giving opinions
5B. Let’s continue supporting…
- Declaring actions that are taking place
- Referring to the consequences or results of an action
- Declaring simultaneous actions
- Giving descriptions
5C. They said they’d send it by email!
- Referring to future information
- Giving messages
6A. I’ve written lots of letters
- Expressing the result of an action
- Writing letters
6B. Conditions
- Expressing feelings with reference to change
- Talking about conditions and consequences
- Feeling regret
6C. A letter has arrived
- Writing a letter
- Commenting on a letter
- Expressing optimism, pessimism and surprise
7A. They kidnapped the minister!
- Avoiding ambiguity
- Identifying the person responsible for an action
- Differentiating colloquial and formal language
7B. News
- Referring to certain actions, facts or ideas
- Reading, analyzing and writing news articles
- Contrasting newly received information with current knowledge
- Identifying the person responsible for an action
- Expressing annoyance
7C. Tell me everything!
- Describing experiences to friends
- Expressing affection or contempt
8A. Differences between the sexes
- Giving opinions about specific topics
- Giving opinions in favor of and against topics
8B. Let’s present a topic of interest
- Giving presentations about topics
- Presenting the advantages and disadvantages of a topic
- Offering solutions
9A. The use of tildes
- Grouping words according to their accents
- Applying accent rules to different words
9B. Grammatical difficulties
- Recognizing difficult grammatical constructions
- Communicating with lexical precision
9C. Homophonic words
- Knowing and differentiating homophonic words
10A. Literature
- Reading, analyzing and writing texts in literary style
10B. History
- Talking about history
- Making speculations about the past
10C. Review
- Review 1
- Review 2
- Review 3
- Review 4
- Review 5
- Review 6