Topic 1: Basic Guidelines – Food and clothing
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Basic Guidelines – Food and clothing
For this specific dimension, volunteer tutors should consider the following contents to be taught, structured in components:
Functions:
- Ask and inform about the availability and location of products
- Order a product in the desired quantity
- Ask for the price of a product and the amount to purchase
Grammar:
- Third-person singular in simple present tense of the verb “to cost / costar”
- Simple present tense of the verb “to prefer / preferir”, “to put / poner”, “to give / dar”, “to want / querer”
- Use of object pronouns
- Gender and number of nouns and adjectives related to purchases
- Use of demonstrative pronouns
Lexicon:
- Basic questions related to purchases
- Food, store names and clothing vocabulary
- Vocabulary referring to quantities, weights and measures, prices and payments
- Adverbs and adverbial locutions of quantity
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Basic Guidelines – House and home
For this specific dimension, volunteer tutors should consider the following contents to be taught, structured in components:
Functions:
- Describe a flat and a room.
- Request and give information about home facilities and characteristics and contractual conditions
Grammar:
- Use of conditional to express courtesy
- Use of the verbs “to be / ser / estar” and “to have / haber / tener” to describe a dwelling
Lexicon:
- Furniture vocabulary, parts of the house and lease
- Adjectives to describe a home
- Ordinal numbers
- Common expressions to talk on the phone
Basic Guidelines – Health and body care
For this specific dimension, Volunteer tutors should consider the following contents to be taught, structured in components:
Functions:
- Talk about symptoms, ailments and moods.
- Request an appointment at a health centre to see a family doctor
- Ask and give information about diagnoses and treatments.
- Talk about habits and obligations
Grammar:
- Third-person singular and plural in the simple present tense of the verb “to hurt / doler”
- Uses of the verb “to be / estar” + adjective to express health and mood states
- Use of the present simple to talk about habits
- Use of expressions “from / desde” + date, “for / hace” + time.
- Use of “having to / tener que” + infinitive verb to express obligation.
Lexicon:
- Adverbs of quantity
- Vocabulary related to the human body, medicine, daily and physical activities
- Adjectives related to physical and mood states
- Temporary adverbial phrases
