SLS A2 syllabus (Singapore, Jul 2023)

Unit 1: Greetings, routines & traditions

Greetings · Traditions · Daily routines

Communication goals

• Greet and introduce yourself and someone else (formal and informal)
• Express tastes
• Talk about routines
• Speak in the past tense
• Discuss traditions in different countries
• Introductions in España and Latinoamérica

Grammar goals

• Definite and indefinite articles
• Prepositions: a, de, en, por, para
• Hay / Está(n) / Tener
• Possessive adjectives
• Demonstrative pronouns and adjectives
• Gender and number
• Ser / Estar
• Verb Gustar / Doler
• Direct object pronouns
• Immediate future
• Personal pronouns
• Reflexive verbs
• También / Tampoco
• Estar + gerund
• Verb Ir
• Quantity and frequency adjectives
• Pretérito indefinido (regular and irregular)
• Importance of accentuation and intonation
• Pronunciation and orthography

Unit 2: Questions, stories & dates

Questions · Biographies · Important dates

Communication goals

• How to make questions
• Telling stories using the past tense
• Writing a biography
• Birthdays and important dates
• Getting to know important Spanish-speaking people and locations

Grammar goals

• Interrogative pronouns: Quién, De qué, En qué, Cuándo, Qué, Cuál (and accents)
• Cardinal numbers 100 and above
• Pretérito indefinido
• Reading about important Spanish-speaking people

Unit 3: People, past experiences & obligations

Family · Personality · Habits · Culture

Communication goals

• Describe physical aspects and personality
• Talk about your family
• Describe yourself or someone else
• Talk about recent past and experiences
• Express habits, prohibitions, and obligations
• Learn different traditions and cultures

Grammar goals

• Verbs Ser / Estar with adjectives (regular and irregular)
• Relationships vocabulary
• Verb Haber
• Pretérito perfecto
• Ya / Todavía no
• Impersonal obligations: Hay que
• Impersonal prohibitions: No hay que / No se puede
• Se puede
• Stress syllables, accents, pronunciation and orthography

Final revision A2.1 and final test

Unit 4: Opinions, hobbies & culture

Likes · Free time · Festivals

Communication goals

• Express likes and opinions
• Express desires
• Talk about hobbies and free-time activities
• Spanish films and traditional festivals

Grammar goals

• Gustaría / Gustarían
• Names of furniture and domestic appliances
• Types of houses
• Pretérito indefinido vs pretérito perfecto
• Direct and indirect object pronouns (including se)
• Stress syllables, accents, pronunciation and orthography

Unit 5: Past habits, comparisons & transport

Past habits · Descriptions · Travel

Communication goals

• Describe circumstances in the past
• Using adjectives in all their forms
• Making comparisons
• Asking and saying how to get somewhere
• Means of transport

Grammar goals

• Pretérito imperfecto vs pretérito indefinido
• Regular and irregular adjectives
• Comparative, superlative, relative and absolute comparative
• Prepositions of place

Unit 6: Announcements, quantities & instructions

Notices · Food · Instructions

Communication goals

• Write announcements
• Express indeterminate amounts
• Give instructions in a formal and informal impersonal way
• Dishes, ingredients, and the Mediterranean diet

Grammar goals

• Interrogative pronouns
• Variable and invariable indefinite pronouns: Algo, Algún…
• Impersonal instructions: cocinar, conducir, hacer
• Diptongo and hiato
• Imperative plural
• Pronunciation and orthography

Final revision A2.2 and final test

Unit 7: Health, advice & subjunctive

Doctor · Moods · Wellbeing

Communication goals

• Give advice and instructions
• Go to the doctor
• Talk about moods
• Express desires
• Healthy habits
• Using r or rr pronunciation

Grammar goals

• Affirmative and negative imperative (regular, irregular, reflexive)
• Subjunctive in present tense (regular and irregular)
• Verb Estar
• Pronunciation and orthography

Unit 8: Careers, news & reported speech

Professions · Literature · Media

Communication goals

• Describe career paths and professions
• Newspaper news
• Talking about Spanish-speaking literature
• Indirect vs direct style

Grammar goals

• Interrogative pronouns
• Estaba + progressive
• Pretérito indefinido and pretérito imperfecto
• Asking and saying (reported speech)
• Indirect style vs direct style
• Pronunciation and orthography

Unit 9: Duration, future & migration

Time · Predictions · Migration

Communication goals

• Talk about the duration of various activities
• Make promises and predictions
• Talk about the future
• Express tastes and opinions
• Living in two worlds (migration and immigration)

Grammar goals

• Verb Llevar + progressive
• Llevar + time expressions
• Future imperfect (regular and irregular)
• Conditional sentences
• Verb gustar, También / Tampoco
• Pronunciation and orthography

Unit 10: Plans, definitions & geography

Future plans · History · Places

Communication goals

• Talk about plans
• Place an activity in the future
• Explain and define objects and places
• Names of Spanish-speaking countries and history

Grammar goals

• Verbs to express future: ir, querer, pensar, desear
• Presente + CUANDO + affirmative pretérito / subjuntivo
• Questions with future reference
• Relative sentences
• Pronunciation and orthography

Final revision A2.3 and final test