School Spanish Textbooks

STARTING LESSON: PREPARÉMONOS

Communicational goal: The student can introduce him/herself and ask about their immediate environment.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: El alfabeto
• G2: Los números
• G3: El tiempo
• G4: El género
• G5: La oración

UNIT 1: QUIERO HABLAR ESPAÑOL

Communicational goal: The student can express or ask a question in present and future tenses.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Verbos regulares en presente
• G2: Los verbos modales: poder, querer, el verbo gustar
• G3: Los verbos de obligación: tener que, hay que, deber
• G4: El futuro perifrástico

UNIT 2: SOMOS UNA FAMILIA

Communicational goal: The student can describe, locate and establish the existence of subjects and places.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Ser, estar, usos, el presente progresivo, hay
• G2: Los adjetivos demostrativos
• G3: Los adjetivos y pronombres posesivos

UNIT 3: MIS ANÉCDOTAS

Communicational goal: The student can ask and answer questions about themselves and others in past, present and future tenses.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Verbos regulares en pretérito indefinido
• G2: Los verbos reflexivos

UNIT 4: TENGO QUE CUIDAR MI SALUD

Communicational goal: The student can ask and answer questions in areas of immediate need and common issues.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Verbos irregulares en presente

UNIT 5: ENTRETENIMIENTO Y OCIO

Communicational goal: The student can participate in a simple conversation on topics of need or familiar topics.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Verbos en presente que cambian en la primera persona, verbos que terminan en: uir, oir
• G2: Los indefinidos

UNIT 6: MI LINDO ECUADOR

Communicational goal: The student can describe, in simple terms, aspects of his/her past and his/her environment.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Verbos irregulares en preterito indefinido:
  ser, ir, dar, tener, estar, andar, querer, venir, hacer, saber, poder, poner, caber
• G2: Expresiones de tiempo con “hace”

UNIT 7: NOTICIAS QUE HICIERON HISTORIA

Communicational goal: The student can write about common and specific actions in the past.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Verbos irregulares en pretérito indefinido:
  dormir, morir, sentir, pedir, almorzar, llegar, tocar, oír, leer
• G2: El pretérito imperfecto

UNIT 8: EL MEDIO AMBIENTE

Communicational goal: The student can perform in everyday activities that require simple and straightforward exchanges of information.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Los pronombres directos, el uso de “a”
• G2: Los pronombres indirectos
• G3: Verbos de complemento directo

UNIT 9: ¿QUÉ ME SUGIEREN?

Communicational goal: The student can express orders, advice, suggestions and requests in a direct manner.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: El imperativo de usted(es)
• G2: El imperativo de tú

UNIT 10: ANÉCDOTAS

Communicational goal: The student can narrate and recount past events.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Diferencia entre el indefinido y el imperfecto
• G2: Presente perfecto
• G3: Pluscuamperfecto
• G4: El participio

UNIT 11: NUESTRO PASADO

Communicational goal: The student can determine the time, place and way of doing something.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Preposiciones a, en
• G2: Preposiciones de, con
• G3: Preposiciones por, para

UNIT 12: INTERCULTURALIDAD

Communicational goal: The student can express actions that are widespread, impersonal and unforeseen.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Voz pasiva
• G2: Se pasivo
• G3: Usos del se
• G4: Acciones imprevistas

UNIT 13: QUÉ VACACIONES!

Communicational goal: The student can make travel plans, express possibilities, and ask questions in a corteous way.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: El futuro
• G2: El condicional
• G3: El futuro perfecto y el condicional perfecto

UNIT 14: EL MUNDO LATINO

Communicational goal: The student can express future desires, emotions, doubts, and probability scenarios.

Grammatical goals:

• G1: Concordancia de tiempos del subjuntivo
• G2: Deseo, emoción, duda, frases impersonales
• G3: Oraciones adjetivas, probabilidad y deseo, situaciones hipotéticas