Level 1

Vocab and Grammar

Topics you'll be tested on: vocabulary & grammar

Practice these topics: NSE Grammar Topics/Links

Explanations with practice: www.senorjordan.com & StudySpanish.com

Vocabulary Specifics with Videos/Links

Cultural Context Area 1 - The World

• simple geographical divisions and cardinal points games

• names of Spanish-speaking countries quiz

• capitals of the Spanish-speaking countries games

• nature and the environment (basic plants and animals) games




Cultural Context Area 2 - Leisure Time

• days of the week games

• months of the year and dates games

• basic weather expressions games

• telling time games

• basic time divisions games

• simple pastimes games quiz

• basic sports games

days of the week

Days, Months, Seasons

weather

weather

time

sports

Hobbies


Cultural Context Area 3 - Family and Home

• simple description of people games

• basic temporary states games

• simple physical characteristics games

• basic personality traits games

• simple description of things games

• basic colors games

• immediate family games

• basic parts of the house games

age

emotions and states

Physical descriptions

parts of the house

family

colors

Cultural Context Area 4 - School and Education

• basic educational words games

• basic items found in the classroom games

• basic mathematical operations quiz




Cultural Context Area 5 - Travel and Transportation

• simple places in a city games

• basic directions games

• basic travel expressions games

• basic expressions for air travel games

• basic expressions for train travel games

locations/directions

in the city

Cultural Context Area 6 - Meeting Personal Needs

• common greetings and farewells games

• basic expressions of courtesy games

• basic introductions games

• expressing likes and dislikes games

• basic food expressions games

• basic clothing games

• basic parts of the body games

clothes

introductions

courtesy

greetings/goodbyes

body

likes/dislikes

food

Cultural Context Area 7 - The World of Work

• basic work expressions games

• basic professions games




Grammar Specifics with Videos/Links

contractions al and del

diminuitives

making nouns plural

definite articles

possession with "de" and family

indefinite articles

gender

gender

NUMBER FYI

  1. Spanish numbers don't use commas. Instead, they use dots. 1.000.000 = 1 million

  2. Ordinal numbers will abbreviate to have the last two letters of the word in superscript 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to, etc

  3. Numbers ending in 1 (1, 21, 31, 41, 101, etc) will shorten to un /una in front of masculine/feminine nouns (Ella tiene veintiuna amigas.)

  4. If you say "more than" in front of a number, use "DE" to mean "than" (Yo tengo más de cien canicas.)

  5. Ordinal numbers will not change their endings if they act as adverbs (Ella va primero.) But, if they are adjectives, they will. (Ella es la primera mujer que tiene la presidencia.)

  6. "Cardinal" numbers are just numbers (one, two, three)

  7. "Ordinal" numbers show order (first, second, third, etc)


1-20

21-20

100-1.000

ordinal numbers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc

short form possessive

noun/adjective agreement

noun/adjective agreement







YOGO verbs






Know calor, frío, hambre, sed, años

hace + weather expressions

ir a + infinitive verb

present progressive

de - of or from

a - to (a place); at (a time)

en - on; in; at

para - for (a person)

sin - without

según - according to

entre - among; between

con - with

  • conmigo = (with me)

  • contigo = (with you)



Conjunctions

• simple conjunctions (y, o)

Interjections

• simple interjections (¡Ay!, ¡Oye!)

Conjunctions can combine two complete ideas.

Y - and

O- or

Pero - but

Porque - because


¡Oye! - Hey! (To get someone to listen to you or to change the topic)

¡Uy! - Ugh!

¡Ay! - Oh my! (it's a frustrated or painful interjection)

Other Grammar

question words

• word order of questions