Pronunciation | p. 7 |
Week 1 | p. 13 |
Articles: the, a, an, some | |
Gender and plural of nouns | |
Subject pronouns: I, you, he, etc. | |
Forms of address: Mr., Mrs., etc. | |
The verb "tener" ("to have") | |
Negative and interrogative forms | |
Idiomatic uses of "tener" | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Week 2 | p. 24 |
Contraction of article | |
Possession ("John's father") | |
Adjectives: describing things | |
The verbs "ser" and "estar" ("to be") | |
Exercises and conversation | |
Week 3 | p. 33 |
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those | |
Regular verbs | |
Present participle ("speaking", "eating") | |
Interrogative pronouns: what?, who?, whose? etc. | |
Relative pronouns: who, which, that, of whom, etc. | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Week 4 | p. 46 |
Possessive adjectives: my, your, etc. | |
Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, etc. | |
Numbers | |
Telling the time, | |
Days, months, seasons, dates | |
Exercises and conversation | |
Revision exercises 1 | |
Week 5 | p. 62 |
The verb "ir" ("to go") | |
Past participle ("spoken," "eaten") | |
Perfect tense ("I have done") | |
"Hay" ("there is," "there are") | |
Personal "a" | |
Direct and indirect object | |
Pronouns: me, him, to me, to him, etc. | |
Order of pronouns ("he gives it to me") | |
Redundant use of object pronouns | |
The imperative: polite commands | |
Exercises, drills, & conversation | |
Week 6 | p. 77 |
Question words | |
Exclamations | |
Verbs that change their stem | |
Reflexive verbs ("I wash myself") | |
Reciprocal form ("we love each other") | |
Personal pronouns with prepositions | |
Irregular verbs in the present | |
Idiomatic uses of "hacer" | |
Impersonal verbs | |
The verbs "gustar" ("to like") and "querer" ("to love," "to want") | |
Exercises, drills and conversation | |
Week 7 | p. 90 |
Imperfect tense ("was doing," "used to do") | |
The verb "soler" | |
Pluperfect tense ("had done") | |
Some negative words: never, nothing, neither, etc. | |
Adverbs ("easily," "frequently") | |
Comparison of adjectives, adverbs and nouns ("more...than," etc.) | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Revision exercises 2 | |
Week 8 | p. 108 |
Shortening of adjectives | |
Adjectives that precede the noun | |
Present tense of three irregular verbs | |
Irregular past participles | |
Future tense ("I will / shall do") | |
Conditional tense ("I would do") | |
Irregular verbs in the conditional | |
Uses of the future and conditional | |
Verbs with prepositions | |
Idiomatic uses of "llevar" and "hacer" | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Week 9 | p. 122 |
Past historic ("I spoke," "I ate") | |
Imperfect and past historic contrasted | |
The two verbs "to know" | |
Superlative of adjectives ("poorest", "biggest") | |
Superlative of adverbs | |
Absolute superlative | |
Use of the neuter article "lo" | |
Uses of definite and indefinite articles | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Week 10 | p. 138 |
Different uses of "por" and "para" | |
The passive - and how to avoid it | |
Changes of spelling in verbs | |
Verbs followed by an infinitive | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Revision exercises 3 | |
Week 11 | p. 158 |
Uses of the verb "deber" "Saber" and "poder" | |
Present and perfect subjunctive | |
Uses of the subjunctive | |
Familiar imperative | |
Idiomatic uses of "seguir" and "valer" | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Week 12 | p. 173 |
Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive | |
Uses of the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive | |
Sequence of tenses | |
Use of the subjunctive in "if" clauses and in main clauses | |
"May" and "might" | |
Verbs followed by prepositions | |
"Al" followed by the infinitive | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Week 13 | p. 188 |
Some important verbs | |
"Mas" and "menos" | |
"Tan" and "tal" | |
"Pero" and "sino" | |
Prepositions | |
Augmentatives and diminutives | |
Idiomatic uses of certain verbs | |
Exercises, drills, and conversation | |
Revision exercises 4 | |
Reading practice | p. 210 |
Los Espanolitos de Alsemberg | |
Primera Memoria | |
El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba | |
Un pueblo de sueno | |
Key to exercises | p. 218 |
Mini-dictionary | p. 235 |
Index | p. 255 |
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