Holiday Spanish Online

This course is suitable for anyone who is a complete beginner to learning Spanish.

Course content

Topic 1: Introducing yourself

This topic will give learners the skills, knowledge and understanding to communicate effectively with a foreign colleague, friend or host. Topics covered will include the definition of roles and relationships, personal details, hobbies and personal interests. Learners will be introduced to vocabulary and phrases to aid conversation in the foreign language.

Topic 2: Using public transport

This topic will give learners the skills, knowledge and understanding to arrange and undertake travel confidently. Topics covered are buying tickets, checking times of departure or arrival, seat reservations, check-in procedures and other typical situations related to travel.  Learners will study numbers, the 24 hour clock, days of the week and other relevant vocabulary and useful phrases.

Topic 3: Around the city

This topic will give learners the skills, knowledge and understanding to communicate and request information when sight-seeing. The topics covered include vocabulary and useful phrases to visit public places and how to get by in a city of the foreign country.

Topic 4: Booking a room

This theme will give learners the skills, knowledge and understanding to organise accommodation in a foreign country. The topics covered include enquiring about accommodation, changes, dates, facilities and completion of forms, dealing with problems, involving accommodation and relevant vocabulary

Topic 5: Ordering in a restaurant

This topic will give learners the skills, knowledge and understanding to deal with some situations that may arise when eating out in a foreign country. The topics covered will ensure that learners are able to book a table, order food from a menu, express preferences and ask for the bill.

Topic 6: Shopping

This topic will give learners the skills, knowledge and understanding to deal with some aspects of going shopping in a foreign country. This includes dealing with money, prices, change, receipts, shop opening times, enquiring about and buying items and making complaints. Learners will also study other useful phrases and language which may be needed in a shopping situation.

This course will run for 8 weeks.