General Spanish A2
Build on your first steps in Spanish and start talking about the past and the future.
About this course
Build on your first steps in Spanish and start talking about the past and the future. You will describe experiences, holidays and childhood memories, make plans and arrangements, handle travel, health and service situations, and give simple instructions and advice.
Following the A2 level of the CEFR, the course balances grammar with plenty of speaking and listening practice so that you can manage routine exchanges with confidence. You finish with an Alalamia certificate.
What you'll learn
- Talk about past events and experiences using the preterite, the present perfect and the imperfect
- Describe past habits, places and people
- Make plans, arrangements and appointments
- Handle common travel, health and service situations
- Compare people, places and things
- Give simple instructions, advice and polite requests
- Understand the main points of short, clear texts and recordings on everyday topics
- Write short emails, messages and descriptions
Curriculum
- Regular and irregular preterite (pretérito indefinido)
- Time expressions for the past
- Narrating a weekend or a trip
- The present perfect (pretérito perfecto)
- Ya and todavÃa no
- Contrasting the present perfect and the preterite
- The imperfect (pretérito imperfecto)
- Childhood and past habits
- Describing places and people in the past
- Ir a + infinitive
- Introduction to the future tense
- Making arrangements and appointments
- Parts of the body and symptoms
- At the doctor and the pharmacy
- Using doler
- Giving advice with tener que and deber
- Booking accommodation
- At the station and the airport
- Handling problems and complaints
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Describing jobs and responsibilities
- Simple CVs and job advertisements
- Useful telephone and email phrases
- The affirmative imperative
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Polite requests
- Recipes and step-by-step instructions
Who it's for
Adults who have completed A1 Spanish, or reached the same level elsewhere, and want to handle everyday situations more independently.
Before you start
- Completion of General Spanish A1 or an equivalent A1 level
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