When you dream of living in a tropical paradise, you might not imagine the inconveniences of daily life. But they exist!
Unexpected complications are part of foreign living. Sometimes there are delays, unexpected inconveniences, bank annoyances, residency issues. This course was designed for the intermediate student dealing with the imperfections of paradise.
Paradise Isn’t Always Perfect
When you dream of living in a tropical paradise, you might not imagine the inconveniences of daily life. But they exist! Unexpected complications are part of foreign living. Sometimes there are delays, unexpected inconveniences, bank annoyances, residency issues. This course was designed for the intermediate student dealing with the imperfections of paradise. En Este Curso: [...]
En Este Curso:
Vocabulario de:
- Filing a police report, reporting a crime
- Going to the clinic, expressing pains and symptoms
- The bank
- Inconvenientes típicos: mal tiempo, retrasos, sucesos no esperados
- Immigration and red tape
- Typical inconveniences: bad weather, delays, unexpected events
Grammar points:
- Definite articles with body parts, expressing pain
- Direct and Indirect Object Review
- Passive voice with fue/fueron + past participle
- Subjunctive review and giving advice
- Passive reflexive constructions
- Hace/hacía + time expressions to express ‘how long ago’ something occurred/had occurred.
Verb tenses:
- Preterit, imperfect, pluperfect, and the imperfect of the subjunctive (past subjunctive),
- Conditional and conditional perfect Tenses
- Progressive tenses
- Perfect tenses
- If-then statements
- Overall view of verb concordance
Poner una Denuncia and The Preterit Tense
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Poner una Denuncia: Vocabulary for Filing a Police Report
This lesson introduces vocabulary for filing a police report.
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Introduction to the Simple Past Tense in Spanish
This lesson focuses on the formation of the simple past tense, often referred to as the preterit. This lesson introduces the uses of this important past tense, as well as orients students to its application.
Students will be able to:
- Conjugate regular verbs in the preterite tense.
- Understand past tense sentences and phrases with the new vocabulary.
- Reinforce previous vocabulary and begin speaking in the past tense.
3
The Preterit with Direct Object Pronouns
This lesson concentrates on the use of the preterit in questions and answers with the use of the direct object pronouns. The aim of this lesson is to use direct object pronouns properly in a brief and natural question and answer context.
4
Practice with Regular Preterit Verbs
In this lesson you will practice real life conversation and dialogue. The emphasis of the lesson is on the preterit tense, but it also covers present tense auxiliary verb structures.
The contents of the lesson integrate may past language concepts, while you work to integrate new information into previously learned structures.
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Más Práctica: Poner una Denuncia
Students will practice:
- filing a police report vocabulary
- using preterit tense verbs in short sentences
- listening comprehension
- speaking and answering questions with preterit tense verbs and direct object pronouns
6
Regular Preterit Tense Verbs
This quiz assesses understanding of the thematic conversation presented in the text. Students will be tested on preterit tense verb conjugation, questions and answers with preterit tense verbs, and the use of the direct object within context.
Preterit Tense Irregular Verbs
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Introduction to the 16 Wildly Irregular Preterit Verbs!
Students will be introduced to the Irregular verbs of the preterite tense.
In this lesson you will:
- Identify the preterit irregulars and their endings
- Begin forming basic sentences with preterites and their endings
- Form questions with preterit tense irregulars
- Practice writing, sentence builing and speaking
2
Practice with Preterit Irregulars
Students will practice with preterit irregulars in various situations, including writing a police report. They will practice changing quicly between all persons of the verb.
3
¿Quién Fue el Ladrón?
This lesson reinforces the past tense of various preterite verb and introduces poder , poner, and various other preterite irregulars.
Story telling methodology is used.
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