Chapter | Topics covered | Timeframe to cover the chapter | Prerequisites |
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The Present Tense | Regular and Irregular verbs in the present tense, reflexives and daily routines, verbs like gustar, present continuous and present perfect forms | 20 hours | No prior knowledge of Spanish required |
The Past Tense | Simple and Continuous past, past perfect, contrasting the simple past and present perfect, contrasting the indefinido and imperfecto forms, working with all the past tenses | 30 hours | Simple present tense – regular and irregular verbs, gustar and reflexives. |
The Future Tense | Using ir a infinitivo for immediate future, future simple, future continuous and future perfect | 20 hours | Regular and Irregular verbs in the simple present |
Direct and Indirect object pronouns | Understanding a direct and indirect object, using the right pronoun and placing the pronoun right with various grammar structures | 7 hours | Regular and Irregular verbs in Spanish |
The Conditional and Conditional Perfect | The conditional and conditional perfect tense | 8 hours | Regular and Irregular verbs in the simple present and simple future tense |
The Imperative or Command Form | The imperative and different forms of command, polite expressions to use at the workplace, using object pronouns with the imperative form | 15 hours | Regular and irregular verbs in the simple present |
Subjunctive in the present and present perfect | Subjuntive in the present, present perfect | 30 hours | Regular and Irregular verbs in the simple present, simple future tense |
Past Subjunctive | Subjuctive in the past and the conditional form, diffrerent types of conditionals in Spanish | 30 hours | Present subjunctive |
The Future, Conditional and Subjuntive tenses compared | Understanding when to use the future, conditional and subjunctive forms | 15 hours | Simple Present, Future, Conditional and Subjunctive present tense |
Connectors | Connecting your sentences together, the use of indivative and subjunctive forms after certain connectors | 15 hours | Connecting sentences in the present, past and future |
Prepositions | Understanding the use of prepositions in Spanish, the use of certain prepositions after certain verbs | 25 hours | Regular and irregular verbs in the simple present (knowledge of the past tense and future tenses are a plus) |
Adjectives and noun forms | Understanding the use of adjectives and their corresponding noun forms | 8 hours | Simple present tense |
Relative clauses | Understanding how to connect sentences with relative clauses like el que, la que, los que and so on | 10 hours | Simple present tense |
Different forms of SE | The use of se in reflexive, reciprocal, passive and impersonal forms | 10 hours | Regular, irregular and reflexive verbs in the simple present |
Passive Voice | Reporting speech, narrating incidents, converting active voice in different tense to the passive form | 15 hours | Regular, irregular and reflexive verbs in the simple present and the past tense |