Description
Early bird registration before October 31 – $99.00
This course includes independent study resources for beginners to Spanish. We will meet weekly on Zoom as you progress through the videos and readings.
5 weeks on Mondays 6:30pm Pacific / 7:30pm Mountain / 8:30pm Central / 9:30pm Eastern, 60-70 minute clases
Monday November 9
Monday November 16
Monday November 23
Monday November 30
Monday December 7
Complete Independent Study Beginning Spanish recordings included with live zoom classes, a $178.00 value
Recommended book packages from Command Performance Books:
Independent Learner, True Beginner – 8 books — 1 free book for new registrants with purchase of package
Filomena está aburrida Theresa Jensen
Lola Veronica Moscoso
Viral en ZikZok Rachel Emery
La familia de Federico Rico Craig Klein Dexemple
Pablo Paloma Adam Giedd
Las aventuras de Isabela Karen Rowan
¡No toques las obras de arte! Bill Langley
Feliz cumpleaños El Partido A.C.Quintero
Independent Learner, False beginner – 8 books – 1 free book for new registrants with purchase of package
¿En qué estoy pensando? (There are 5 books in this series. All of them are at the same level. Any of them.) Carla Tarini
Soy yo la mosca Adriana Ramírez
Xolo Marta Yedinak
Los viernes de pelicula Kodi Rain
Arroz con cosas Margarita Pérez García and Patricia Martí Torres
Tonia Patagonia Margarita Pérez García and Patricia Martí Torres
Recommended reading quanitity to improve fluency from Beginner to Intermediate, 100-150 pages per week.
Module 1:
1. Start Here (39 minutes)
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Class 1: quiere and tiene (wants and has) 28 minutes
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Class 1: Review of quiere and tiene with white board 7 minutes=
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Class 1: TPR, se levanta and se sienta 4 minutes
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Vocabulary
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5 question quiz
2. Vocabulary and Story #1 with handout (90 minute recorded in-person Spanish class))
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Video of vocab and story, 90 minutes
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Handout with vocab and story divided into 7-10 minute lessons
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Vocabulary
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5 question Quiz
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Video – Where is Spanish spoken – 17 minutesVocabulary in video5 Question Quiz
4. I live in a house. Dogs do not sleep in my bed. (live, have, sleep) 4 minutes
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Video 4 minutes
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Downloadable Audio 4 minutes
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Vocabulary
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All of the sentences in the video
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Dónde duerme el perro Reading with photos 259 words
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Richard’s Story
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Vocabulary from highest frequency verbs
5. What do you do on the weekends? (5 minutes)
me gusta / nieve / puede manejar / puede esquiar / puede cantar / hace sol / hace frío
Video synopsis, me gusta, le gusta, puede, hace sol, hace frio 6 min 30 seconds
Downloadable audio of class summary 6 minutes 30 seconds
Vocabulary list of words used
2 minute video with Aunt Karen and Joe I can cook / I can’t skate / I can dance — puede cocinar
7. What are you for Halloween? (30 minutes)
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What are you for Halloween? I am… 30 minutes
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Read this…… What are you for Halloween?
- For next week: Señor Wooly Billy la Bufanda
8. Saca una fotografía, mira (19 minutes)
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saca una fotografía, mira 19 minutes
9. Habla, dice, va (26 minutes)
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Chit Chatting at the beginning of class before it starts 10 minutes
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New words: habla, dice, va / Review of last week’s vocab 16 minutes
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For next week: Señor Wooly song: Flores
10. The dog who speaks dog (18 1/2 minutes / 21 minutes with class participation))
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Tiktok of Talking Dog (40 seconds)
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Talking Dog Part 1 (5 min, 40 seconds)
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Movietalk of Mimo the Talking Dog (4 min 20 seconds)
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Movietalk of Mimo the dog with voiceover and subtitles 8 minutes
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Movie clips of a dog who speaks dog 21 minutes with class participation
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READING: Mimo quiere la pelota 320 words
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Vocab Quiz. Are you ready for the next section?10.
10. Los 5 lenguajes de amor — ¿Cómo prefieres recibir amor? ¿Como le gusta recibir amor?
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Video synopsis 8 minutes, 23 secondsDownloadable audio, 8 minutes, 23 secondsVocabulary, los 5 lenguajes de amor — recibir
11. El secreto de Isabela mini-reader (14 minutes)
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Reading the first page of El secreto de Isabela 9 minutes
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Reading El secreto de Isabela (5 minutes)
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El Secreto de Isabela
12. No me gusta la nieve (yo form, tengo, quiero, cocino, visito, recomiendo, puedo, pongo
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Video, 9 1/2 minutes narrating in the first person about the weather
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Downloadable audio, 9 1/2 minutes, 1st person
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Reading, summary of video, first person sentences
13. Personalized questions (45 minutes)
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Chit Chatting about Sarah’s great news 45 minutes
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For next week: No lo tengo, Señor Wooly
14. Illustrations from Las aventuras de Isabela (13 minutes)
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Questions about illustrations from Las aventuras de Isabela 13 minutes
- Las aventuras de Isabela song
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To purchase Las aventuras de Isabela, the full book: https://cpli-bookstore.myshopify.com/products/las-aventuras-de-isabela
15. Thanksgiving Cooking (17 minutes)
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Chatting about Thanksgiving Cooking (17 minutes)
16. Can you cook? (37 minutes)
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Can you cook? What can you cook? Do you have to cook? (24 minutes)
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Inventing a Written Story (13 minutes)
17. Where are you? Is it cold? What are you drinking? (27 minutes)
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Where are you? Is it cold? What are you drinking?
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Can you cook? What can you cook? Who cooks better? (Video of 4 year old cooking)
18. ¿Cómo te sientes? (50 minutes)
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¿Cómo te sientes? 28:29.
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Look for something that can be…. is the number more than or less than? 11:08 minutes
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Writing the class story together — Exploding Popcorn 11:11
19. Los Secretos de Denver (14 minutes)
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Summary of class personalized questions and answers 5 minutes
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Vocab list and Reading – Los Secretos en Denver 291 words
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Video of Karen reading “Los secretos en Denver” 9:51
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Downloadable Audio of Karen reading “Los secretos en Denver” 9:51
¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana? (What did you do this weekend?) Module 2
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El Banco / Yo no robé el banco lyrics
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Beginning of the writing of what the class did this weekend 2-22
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Updated writing of what the class did this weekend 2-28
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El banco readings
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Video summary of what I did this weekend 8 minutes, 30 seconds
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Downloadable audio summary of what I did this weekend, 8 minutes, 30 seconds
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Notes / script to accompany the video of what I did this weekend
What did you read? I read…. What did you watch? I watched…. (Past tense questions and answers) Module 2
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Questions from Karen: What did you read and watch and spend time doing?
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Downloadable audio: What did you read and watch and spend time doing?
