Spanish for complete beginners

This Spanish for complete beginners course is designed for complete beginners who are travelling to a Spanish-speaking country.
The focus is on oral communication (oral and aural skills) and the students will cover the following practical “survival skills”:

  • Greetings – Introducing yourself, your friends and your family
  • Talking about yourself, your job, tastes and hobbies
  • Travelling
  • Booking a hotel and checking in
  • Booking a table – Eating and drinking out
  • Asking for and understanding directions
  • Going shopping
  • Complaining and apologising
  • Arranging to meet
  • Telephoning – Leaving a message – Taking a message

270.00

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Course Details

Course Length : 10-week course on Monday
Course Venue : Online course - Zoom
Further Detail : Course for complete beginners covering practical "survival skills" to travel in a Spanish-speaking country.

Spanish for complete beginners

This Spanish for complete beginners course is designed for complete beginners who are travelling to a Spanish-speaking country.
The focus is on oral communication (oral and aural skills) and the students will cover the following practical “survival skills”:

  • Greetings – Introducing yourself, your friends and your family
  • Talking about yourself, your job, tastes and hobbies
  • Travelling
  • Booking a hotel and checking in
  • Booking a table – Eating and drinking out
  • Asking for and understanding directions
  • Going shopping
  • Complaining and apologising
  • Arranging to meet
  • Telephoning – Leaving a message – Taking a message

270.00

SKU: N/A Category:

Description

This is a summary of the objectives for this Spanish course for complete beginners.

Sociolinguistic Appropriateness

To be able to establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of greetings, farewells, introductions, saying please, thank you, sorry etc.

Listening Comprehension (LC)

To be able to follow speech that is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.

Reading Comprehension (RC)

To be able to understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.

Spoken Interaction (SI)

To be able to interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing and repair.

Spoken Production (SP)

To be able to produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places.

Written Interaction (WI)

To be able to ask for or pass on personal details in written form.

Written Production (WP)

To be able to write simple phrases and sentences about themselves and imaginary people, where they live and what they do.

Maria Angeles started her career as a Spanish teacher in 2006 and since then she has been working with students of all ages and levels, from complete beginners to near native. She has a broad experience with groups (primary schools, languages schools, companies…), one-to-one tuition and on-line lessons. Over the years she prepared students with a high success rate for different language certificates and university entrance examinations. She is an accredited Instituto Cervantes oral examiner since 2010 and joined Languages Unlimited in 2015. She has been teaching in languages schools, a private school and private companies and European organisations. María has a Bachelor´s Degree in Translation and Interpreting and the equivalent of a Master Degree in Linguistics and Foreign Language Learning.