Chapter Overview

Spanish Level 1

Capítulo Preliminar
Why learn Spanish, cognates, Spanish names, accents, alphabet, useful phrases, colors and numbers, techniques to best learn Spanish

Capítulo 1
Greetings, personal pronouns, punctuation; expressing age and nationality, forming questions likes and dislikes, sports and activities, nouns and definite articles, pronunciation, Spanish speaking cultural information, video and dialogues

Capítulo 2
What you need and what you want, school vocab., indefinite articles, subject pronouns, pluralization, room vocabulary, agreement of "mucho" and "cuánto", use of "hay", talking about what you need and want to do, identifying infinitives, higher numbers, Spain cultural information, video and dialogues.

Capítulo 3
Class schedules, sequencing events, telling time, plural definite articles, telling "at what time", being late or in a hurry, possession with "de", describing people and things, talking about things you like and explaining why (me, te, le gusta), pronunciation of consonants all forms of "ser", adjectives and adjective agreement, tag questions, Mexico cultural information, video and dialogues

Capítulo 4
Gustar, present tense of regular "-ar" verbs, pastime vocab, telling where people and things are, "estar", city vocab, prepositions, talking about where you and others go during free time, "ir", days of the week, Mexico cultural information, video and dialogues

Capítulo 5

Discussing how often you do things, negation, “¿quién? ¿quiénes?”, talking about what you and your friends like to do together, talking about what you do during a typical week, regular –er –ir verbs, indirect object pronouns “les”, “ a ustedes, a ellos, a ellas”, today's date, weather, seasons, giving the date, Florida cultural information, video and dialogues

Capítulo 6
Describing a family, family vocab., possessive adjectives, discussing things a family does together, describing people, "hacer", "salir", "a personal", discussing problems and giving advice, "deber", "poner", other go verbs, household chores, project family tree