101
Scope & Sequence
Week 1
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Greetings and farewells.
• Self introductions.
• Spelling.
• Nationalities and countries.
• Present forms of llamarse, apellidarse, ser, hablar.
• Subject pronouns.
• Gender of nationalties.
• Ser to express nationality and origin.
• Alphabet.
• Pronunciation rules.
• Question and exclamation marks.
• Personal info.
Week 2
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Giving and asking basic info: introducing someone else, days of the week.
• Classroom vocabulary.
• Professions.
• Ser to express profession and to identify objects.
• Gender and number.
• Indefinite and definite articles.
• Present tense of trabajar.
• Exclamative and interrogative intonation.
• Basic information about other people.
Week 3
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Introducing someone else.
• Asking and giving phone numbers, email and address.
• Numbers.
• Grammar implications of formal and informal communication.
• Present tense of vivir and tener.
• Haber: hay form.
• Uses of tener (to be).
• Numbers and punctuation.
• Abbreviations.
• Agenda, letter, postcard.
Week 4
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Family.
• Body parts.
• Identifying objects in space.
• Demonstrative pronouns (I): esto, eso, aquello.
• Estar: present tense and uses of the verb.
• Some question words: ¿Cuántos? ¿Cuántas?
• Practice g vs. j
• Relationships and family.
• Culture: Puerto Rico.
Week 5
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Explaining location.
• House vocabulary.
• Telling the time.
• Question words: ¿Qué? ¿Cómo? ¿Dónde? ¿Cuándo? ¿Cuál? ¿Quién?
• Location adverbs & prepositions.
• Exclamative and interrogative intonation.
• Schedule, describing places.
Week 6
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Preferences.
• Talking about daily actions.
• Introduction to Spanish verb system.
• -ar, -er, -ir verbs.
• Indicative present of most frequent verbs.
• Demonstrative pronouns (II): este, esta, ese, esa, aquel, aquella.
• Vowels, capitalization.
• Lifestyles.
Week 7
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Routines.
• Describing places.
• Differences between ser and estar.
• Differences between hay and estar.
• Ser, tener and estar constructions.
•Simple r and rolling r.
• Culture: Los hispanos en Estados Unidos.
Week 8
Communication
& Vocabulary
Grammar
Phonetics
& Spelling
Reading
& Writing
• Describing people.
• Clothing
• Expressing comparison.
• Comparative constructions.
• Present tense of llevar.
• Ser, tener and llevar for descriptions.
• /ch/ and /ñ/
• People description.