Dimelo Tu A Complete Course

1. ¡BIENVENIDOS A LA UNIVERSIDAD! Paso 1: Subject pronouns and the verb ser. Singular forms. Clarifying, emphasizing, contrasting, and stating origin. Gender and number: Articles and nouns. Indicating specific and nonspecific people and things. Adjectives: Singular forms. Describing people, places, and things Paso 2: Infinitives. Naming activities. Subject pronouns and the verb ser. Plural forms. Stating origin of several people. Gender and number: Adjectives. Describing people. Paso 3: Present tense of -ar verbs. Stating what people do. The verb ir. Stating destination and what you are going to do. Contractions in Spanish: al, del. ir a + infinitive. 2. ¡AHORA HAY TANTO QUE HACER! Paso 1: Present tense of -er and -ir verbs. Stating what people do. Paso 2: Numbers 0-199. Counting, solving math problems, and expressing cost. Possessive adjectives. Indicating ownership. Three irregular verbs: tener, salir, venir. Expressing obligations, departures, and arrivals. Paso 3: Telling time. Stating at what time things occur. Days of the week, months, and seasons. Giving dates and stating when events take place. Verbs of motion. Telling where people are going. 3. ¿Y CUÁNDO ES LA FIESTA? Paso 1: The verb estar. Giving location and indicating change. Interrogative words. Asking questions. Paso 2: Present progressive tense. Describing what is happening now. Superlatives. Stating exceptional qualities. Paso 3: Ser and estar with adjectives. Describing attributes and indicating changes. The verb gustar. Talking about something you like or dislike. 4. ¿QUÉ HACEMOS HOY? Paso 1: Demonstrative adjectives. Pointing out specific people, places, events, or things. Present tense of e > ie and o > ue stem-changing verbs. Describing activities. Paso 2: Numbers above 200. Counting and writing checks. Comparisons of equality. Stating equivalence. Paso 3: Idioms with tener. Expressing feelings, obligations, and age. Preterite of ir, ser, poder, and tener. Narrating in past time. 5. ¡HOGAR, DULCE HOGAR! Paso 1: Adverbs of time. Expressing time and frequency. Prepositions. Describing the position of things. Paso 2: Ser and estar: A second look. Describing people and things and telling time. Paso 3: Comparisons of inequality. Comparing and contrasting. Por and para: A first look. Expressing direction and means. 6. UN COMUNICADO ESPECIAL. Paso 1: Preterite of regular verbs. Providing and requesting information about past events. Paso 2: Preterite of verbs with spelling changes. Describing in past time Paso 3: Preterite of estar, decir, and hacer. Narrating about the past. The pronoun se: Special use. Making announcements. 7. ¡TE INVITO A CENAR! Paso 1: Direct-object nouns and pronouns. Agreeing and disagreeing, accepting and refusing. Irregular -go verbs. Telling what people do, say, or hear. Paso 2: Present tense of e > i stem-changing verbs. Stating what people do. Paso 3: Review of direct-object nouns and pronouns. Referring to people and things indirectly. The verbs saber and conocer. Stating what you know and with what you are acquainted. 8. ¡A COMER! Paso 1: Indirect-object nouns and pronouns. Stating to whom and for whom people do things. Review of gustar. Talking about likes and dislikes. Paso 2: Double object pronouns. Referring indirectly to people and things. Paso 3: Review of ser and estar. Describing, identifying, expressing origin, giving location, and indicating change. The verb dar. Telling what people give. 9. UN DÍA COMÚN Y CORRIENTE. Paso 1: Weather expressions. Talking about the weather. Mucho and poco. Expressing indefinite quantity. Paso 2: Reflexive verbs. Talking about what people do for themselves. Paso 3: Por and para: A second look. Explaining how, when, why, and for whom things are done. Affirmative tú commands. Giving orders and directions. 10. ¡SOCORRO! ¡LLAMEN A LA POLICÍA! Paso 1: Adverbs derived from adjectives. Expressing how an event happened. Paso 2: Irregular verbs in the preterite. Describing what already occurred. Negative and indefinite expressions. Denying information and referring to non-specific people and things. Paso 3: Preterite of stem-changing -ir verbs.Talking about past events. Hacer in time expressions. Describing what has been happening. 11. Y TÚ, ¿QUÉ HACÍAS? Paso 1: Imperfect of regular verbs. Talking about past events. Uses of the imperfect. Talking about what we used to do. Imperfect of ser, ir, and ver. Describing how you used to be, where you used to go, what you used to see. Paso 2: Preterite and imperfect: Completed and continuous actions. Describing completed actions and actions in progress in the past. Preterite and imperfect: Beginning, end, and habitual customary actions. Describing the beginning or end of actions and habitual past actions. Paso 3: Present perfect. Talking about what people have or haven''t done. 12. ¡QUÉ VACACIONES! Paso 1: Future tense of regular verbs. Talking about the future. Future tense of verbs with irregular stems. Talking about the future. Paso 2: Conditional of regular and irregular verbs. Stating what you would do. Paso 3: Tú commands: A second look. Requesting, advising, and giving orders to people. 13. MENTE SANA, CUERPO SANO. Paso 1: Present subjunctive: Theory and forms. Giving advice and making recommendations. Subjunctive with expressions of persuasion. Persuading Paso 2: Usted and ustedes commands. Telling people what to do or not to do. Ojalá and present subjunctive of irregular verbs. Expressing hope. Paso 3: Subjunctive with expressions of emotion. Expressing emotion. Subjunctive with impersonal expressions. Expressing opinions. 14. ¡QUÉ PARTIDO! Paso 1: Subjunctive with expressions of doubt, denial, and uncertainty. Expressing doubt, denial, and uncertainty. Paso 2: Subjunctive in adjective clauses. Referring to unfamiliar persons, places, and things. Paso 3: Subjunctive in adverb clauses. Stating conditions Spanish.Samaniego, Fabián A. is the author of 'Dimelo Tu A Complete Course' with ISBN 9780838458525 and ISBN 0838458521.