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High Beginner Spanish

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Start Date: 
2009-05-20 19:00
Day Of Week: 
Wednesday

Course Description

This class is designed for students who have been through an intro to Spanish course (covering basic vocabulary, days of week, months of the year, regular verbs in the present and common irregular verbs including ser and estar).

This Wednesday night course will expand your vocabulary and cover:

  • Irregular verbs in the present
  • Speaking about the future (using IR + A)
  • Comparative and superlative adjectives
  • Speaking in the past using regular verbs
  • Common expressions, phrases, and idioms

Taught by a native speaker from Spain, we will use articles, songs, listening exercises as well as writing and speaking exercises throughout the course.

Class Pricing

The series includes eight weeks of 90 minute weekly classes. The total cost for the series is $144, payable in one payment or two payments of $75 (total $150).

Checks or money orders can be written to Denver Spanish House, LLC and sent to:

Denver Spanish House

Class Start Time: 
7pm
Topics: 
Spanish for Beginners

Achieving dreams despite hardship

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Class Goals: 

For students to have new vocabulary related to poverty and achieving goals and dreams.

Class Activities: 

¿Qué metas han cumplido en la vida y qué metas tienen por hacer?

¿Cual es la diferencia entre una meta y un sueño?
¿Qué es necesario para cumplir los sueños?

¿Cómo es la pobreza de Denver? (comparado de otros ciudades/paises)
¿Qué recursos hay para las personas que no tienen dinero?
Ejemplos de personas de bajos recursos que han tenido éxito...

prepare to read article:

una persona que no tiene dinero--pobre o (mejor) de bajos recursos, de escasos recursos
la capital de Perú: Lima. Los pobladores de Lima: Limeños
en la playa hay? arena
un lugar donde hay cerros de arena? arenales o dunas
transeúntes
"si nos suena la barriga, algo nuevo inventamos."

skim to answer:

  1. ¿Los participantes del grupo tienen dinero? Verdad o Falso
  2. ¿Por qué dicidió ayudar a los jóvenes la coreógrafa?

Listening activity:

¿Cuál es la pregunta?
¿Cuáles son las dos opciones?

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Feliz otoño from the Denver Spanish House!

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In this issue: Day of the Dead events in Denver, winter classes, gift certificates, and wine recommendations

Give the Gift of Culture

Gift certificates are now available through the Denver Spanish House for Spanish classes. Help your friends and family reach their language goals through Spanish classes. As the busy holiday season approaches, consider leaving hints to your loved ones that what you really want this year is to broaden your mind with language classes.

Denver Day of the Dead celebrations

A more immediate holiday, Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, will soon be upon us. Denver is home to several celebrations. Here are a few to consider:

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Intermediate Spanish

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Start Date: 
2008-11-12 17:15
Day Of Week: 
Wednesday

This ongoing class for intermediate students is at 5:15pm on Wednesday nights. The class will focus on getting more comfortable speaking, building vocabulary, and incorporating intermediate grammatical concepts. We will also work on strengthening reading, writing and listening throughout the course.

Class Start Time: 
5:15pm
Topics: 
Intermediate Spanish

Superlative adjectives

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Class Activities: 

Start buy comparing two things or people, offering an adjective:

Oprah and Bill Gates: rich

Bill Gates is richer than Oprah.

Is there anyone richer than Bill Gates? No
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world.

Talk about formula of how to form superlative adjectives.

Put papers in a bag with statements students have to make superlative:

  • expensive car (Lamborghini is the most expensive car)
  • hard language to learn
  • easy language to learn
  • tasty restaurant in Denver
  • pretty place in the world
  • funny TV program
  • great soccer player in world
  • good soccer team
  • refreshing drink
  • good movie
  • bad actor
  • best actor
  • big city in Colorado
  • talented musician
  • Big city in Latin America
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Present subjunctive: Orden/Pedido

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Class Goals: 

For students to understand the uses and formation of subjunctive, especially in the use of orden/pedido. Tema: ¿Cómo usamos/incorporamos la crítica en la vida?

Class Activities: 

This lesson focuses specifically on the orden/pedido use of the subjunctive. Introduce subjunctive in a prior class or at the beginning of the lesson.

Crítica
provocar crítica
expuesto a críticas
autocrítica
crítico culinario/gastronómico
una crítica mordaz
observaciones/sugerencias/recomendaciones sobre (feedback)
reacción negativa/positiva

¿Cuales son las cosas que critican (+/-) más que otras personas?
ej. Para mi, critico mucho el café y vino:)

¿Cómo puede ser positiva la crítica? ej. Nos hace crecer y aprender--students share any examples they can think of in their lives.

Negativa?

¿Cuál es la crítica más difícil para ustedes?

¿Cómo puede la crítica afectuar como nos portamos?

¿Como incorporan la crítica en la vida?

¿Somos nuestras mismas peores críticas?

Students fill in present subjunctive of poem on worksheet attached.

In anticipation of teaching Pablo Neruda's poem, El Miedo, preteach: reposo, radiografia, retrato, viscera, inaplazable, pérfido

Go through poem in big group or groups of two and talk at the end about the message.

Extension or homework: Shakira, La Tortura, which uses the pedido use of present subjunctive.

Other subjunctive practice: What do we hope doesn't happen today/tonight and what hope does happen.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

My 10 favorite Spanish words

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  1. Trabalenguas: literally "tongue obstacle" or tonguetwister. A few examples:
    Tres tristes tigres trigan trigo en un trigal
    Mi mamá me mima mucho
  2. Paracaídas, paraguas, rompecabezas or any other compound word: The fall stopper (parachute), water stopper (umbrella), or head breaker (puzzle).
  3. Esposas: wives or handcuffs. Seem machista? In English we have the old ball and chain...
  4. Tranquilo (chill/mellow) does a great job of describing all types of things.
  5. Estrenar, tutear are nice concise verbs, to use or show something for the first time (estrenar) and to use the familiar tú form (tutear).
  6. Ojo: this is a great gesture (pointing to your eye) or verbal warning to watch out.
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