This free course will take you some steps further in your journey toward learning Spanish. You should have some previous knowledge of Spanish, whether you have studied Getting Started with Spanish 1 and Getting Started with Spanish 2, or because you have learned Spanish elsewhere.This free course will allow you to practise some very useful skills, such as how to greet people in different contexts, how to invite friends to go out with you, and how to accept or decline their invitations.This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course LGXS003 Beginners Spanish 3: ¡Adelante! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: How to say hello and goodbye
- Introduction
- 1 Vocabulary for events and activities
- 2 Recording and organising vocabulary
- 3 Interpreting tone and intonation
- 4 Making suggestions
- 5 La verbena
- 6 Accepting or declining invitations
- 7 Accepted or rejected
- 8 Answering questions
- 9 Speaking practice
- 10 Time out
- 11 Declining invitations
- 12 This week's quiz
- Summary of Week 1
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Making phone calls
- Introduction
- 1 Formal telephone conversations
- 2 Telephone expressions
- 3 Speaking practice
- 4 Speaking on the phone
- 5 Difficulties when talking on the phone
- 6 Dialogue practice
- 7 Informal telephone conversations
- 8 Listening practice
- 9 Different phrases for Spain and Chile
- 10 Making arrangements
- 11 Starting a phone conversation
- 12 Leaving a message
- 11 This week’s quiz
- 11 Summary of Week 2
- Acknowledgements
