Aula Internacional 3: B1.1 Overview
Chapter 1: Volver A Empezar (Start Over)
Write a Cover Letter: Create a cover letter as an ideal candidate for a job position.
- Discuss present habits.
- Narrate past experiences.
- Talk about the beginning and duration of an action.
- Place an action in time.
- Grammar:
- The pretérito perfecto (present perfect) and pretérito indefinido (simple past).
- Periphrastic structures: empezar a + infinitive (start to…), acabar de + infinitive (just finished…), terminar de + infinitive (finish…), volver a + infinitive (do again), dejar de + infinitive (stop doing…), llevar + gerundio (have been…), seguir + gerundio (continue doing…).
- Desde (since), desde que (since…), desde hace (for…).
Chapter 2: Mañana (Morning)
Imagine the Future: Envision how we will be in a few years.
- Talk about future actions and situations.
- Express conditions.
- Formulate hypotheses about the future.
- Grammar:
- Si + presente de indicativo, futuro (If present, then future); depende de + sustantivo (depends on…), depende de si + presente de indicativo (depends if…).
- The form and some uses of the futuro imperfecto (simple future).
- Seguramente (surely), seguro que (sure that), supongo que (I suppose that) + futuro (future tense).
- Temporal markers to talk about the future.
Chapter 3: Prohibido Prohibir (Forbidden to Forbid)
Write an Article on Customs and Social Codes: Discuss the customs and social norms of people from your country.
- Express prohibition.
- Express obligation.
- Express impersonality.
- Talk about habits.
- Grammar:
- Lo normal / lo habitual / lo raro es + infinitivo (The normal/usual/rare thing is to…).
- Soler + infinitivo (usually do something).
- Quantifiers: todo el mundo (everyone), la mayoría (de…) (the majority of…), muchos (many), algunos (some).
- Es obligatorio / está prohibido / está permitido + infinitivo (It is mandatory/prohibited/permitted to…), se prohíbe/n / se permite/n + sustantivo (Something is prohibited/permitted).