Learning outcomes
➢ Listening: The student will be able to understand oral messages on material needs, physical sensations and personal opinions in a simple, explicit way.
➢ Speaking: The student will be able to produce statements concerning basic needs, physical sensations, opinions and feelings.
➢ Reading: The student will be able to understand the gist of short texts concerning topics the student is familiar with.
➢ Writing: The student will be able to write short notes using simple statements with basic words.
Grammatical Content:
✓ Basic phrases (greetings, farewells). ✓ Important commands for the class. ✓ Basic questions (what, how, which, all the questions). ✓ Survival phrases, invitations, requests, etc. ✓ Alphabet. Basics of pronunciation and intonation. ✓ The noun. The adjective The concordance. Articles. ✓ Days of the week, months and seasons of the year. ✓ The numbers. ✓ Pronouns. ✓ Elementary uses of SER. ✓ Elementary uses of ESTAR. ✓ THERE AND BE. ✓ Demonstrative
Cultural Content:
• Ways of greeting and presentation. • The use of language in various social situations in the Hispanic world. • Presentation of some Panamanian and Hispanic cities. • Presentation of some famous person from the Hispanic world.
Functional Content:
• Greet and say goodbye. • Introduce someone and react when presented. (Meet people). • Ask for forgiveness. • To thank • Point out that it is not understood. • Ask someone to speak more slowly or louder. • Request the repetition of what was said. • Spell and request to be spelled. • Request that something be written. • Identify people, places and objects. • Describe people, places and objects