Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Introduce themselves and request personal information from others on a variety of topics such as health, travel, and the family

• Greet others and appropriately handle social interactions

• Maintain a conversation with native speakers and use courtesy phrases

• Order a meal and shop for vegetables, fruits, clothes, and sweets

• Ask about, describe, and compare different things, people, objects, and scenes

• Use adjectives to easily talk about, describe, and compare past, present, and future situations

• Ask for services, give instructions, and provide directions

• Use language freely in order to deal with different social and cultural situations such as meals, funerals, weddings, and jokes

• Interact appropriately with others at a variety of locations such as the barber shop, hotel, border crossing, check point, and airport

• Narrate and describe specific life experiences, trips, and social occasions using present, past, future, and the imperative

• Participate actively in conversations in most informal and formal settings by using language and cultural expressions to make requests, express, describe, and compare preferences