Dutch Language Training Course

Understanding and communication of basic, familiar expressions, self-introduction. Develop ability to respond to simple questions and write simple, short sentences pertaining to oneself

Functional Content

• Say hello and goodbye.
• Introducing someone and reacting to being introduced. (Meet people).
• Ask for forgiveness.
• Give the thanks.
• Point out that it is not understood.
• Ask someone to speak more slowly or louder.
• Request a repetition of what was said.
• Spell out and request to be spelled.
• Request that something is written.
• Identify people, places, and objects.
• Describe people, places, and objects.
• Refer to current or habitual actions.
• Refer to plans and projects.
• Express agreement and disagreement.
• Express knowledge or ignorance.
• Express and ask if it is possible or not to do something.
• Express and ask for pleasure and pleasure.
• Express and ask for desire and need.
• Invite and offer something. Accept or decline invitations and offers.
• Start and end the speech

Cultural Content

• Ways of greeting and presentation.
• The use of the language in various social situations

Grammar

• Basic phrases (greetings, farewells).
• Important Commands for the class.
• Basic questions (what, how, which, all questions).
• Survival phrases, invitations, requests, etc.
• Alphabet. Basic concepts of pronunciation and intonation.
• The noun. The adjective. The concordance. Articles.
• Days of the week, months, and seasons of the year.
• The numbers.
• Pronouns.
• Adverbs of place.
• Basic prepositions of place.
• Verb do (depends on the student, you can go before).
• Regular present.
• Present Irregular (more frequent).
• Uses of knowing and knowing.
• Some modal verbs: power, want, have to.
• Most frequent reflexive verbs.
• Verbs like.
• Basic conditional.
• Past Indefinite, the most frequent regular and irregular verbs 

Skill Work

• Lots of speaking/(inter) active practice
• Spelling
• Lots of listening (dialogues)
• Pronunciation
• Exercises and Language-Learning activities, such as role-plays

Understanding and communication of daily situations related to personal and professional life. Can speak briefly about simple everyday topics such as visiting a restaurant, departmental store, travelling and write short essays on simple topics.

Functional Content

• Compare people, objects, places, and situations.
• Express and ask for opinions about something or someone.
• Express and ask about the degree of security.
• Express and ask for the obligation to do something.
• Ask, grant, and deny permission.
• Express and ask for satisfaction and desire
• Express and ask for preferences.
• Express and ask for needs.
• Express and ask about physical sensations and pain.
• Suggest activities and react to suggestions.
• React to a story with expressions of surprise, interest, joy.
• To congratulate.
• Address someone.
• Relate elements and parts of speech.
• Verify that what has been said has been understood.
• Asking for a word or expression that is unknown or has been forgotten.
• Express and ask for pleasure and pleasure.
• Express and ask for desire and need
• Invite and offer something. Accept or decline invitations and offers.
• Start and end the speech

Cultural Content

• Social codes: invite, offer, reject.
• Social behaviors when giving and receiving gifts in countries.
• The importance of meals in family and social relationships.

Grammar

• General review of the contents of A1.
• Extension of the irregular program A1.
• Extension of modal verbs.
• Other verbs like "LIKE": hurt, annoy, seem.
• Imperfect Past (regular and irregular)
• The general alternation between Preterite Indefinite and Imperfect.
• Future of Indicative.
• The 1st. conditional: Yes + Present + Future.
• Some modal verbs: power, duty, have to.
• Direct and indirect object. Pronoun placement.
• Regular Imperative You and You

Understanding and communication of daily situations related to 60 hours personal and professional life. Can speak briefly about simple everyday topics such as visiting a restaurant, departmental store, travelling and write short essays on  simple topics

Topics and Vocabulary

• Conversation about present, future & past events, and describing a situation
• Explaining habitual actions
• Talking about memories
• Making Comparisons
• Explaining anecdotes
• Expressing feelings such as happiness, pity, surprise, fear
• Expressing how long you have been doing an action for
• Sentence and word building
• Describe feeling
• Express Present Wishes and Future Wishes
• Express Problems and give advice
• How to give order and instructions
• Passing messages
• Reported speech

Grammar

• Imperfect tense
• Past simple vs. Imperfect past
• Prepositions
• Different clause types
• Present subjunctive
• Imperative
• Conditional tense
• Pronouns and prepositions
• Different clause types

Cultural Content

• Literature overview
• Vocabulary words differently in different countries
• Different indigenous peoples and their customs and habits
• Variety of food in all the speaking countries
• Aspects of Personality and habits

Skill Work

• Talking and active practice
• Listening practice
• Pronunciation
• Reading and Writing

Module 4: Dutch B2 Level

Understanding of literary texts and articles from newspapers, magazines. Develop ability to confidently communicate with native speakers and express thoughts and opinions on various issues

Topics and Vocabulary

• Express opinion and argue with people
• Talk and describe past events
• Express doubts and probability
• Give opinions and recommend films
• Complain about things and situations
• Demand things
• Use gesture to communicate
• Ask for advice and react to advice
• Make a hypothesis about past events and explain it
• Make a hypothesis about future’

Grammar

• Revision of present subjunctive tense, conditional tense, imperative tense, and all past tenses.
• Uses of all past tenses
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Future tense
• Expresion to use when you argue like: me molesta que…,no soporto que…, me sorprende que..
• Present, past perfect, and past imperfect subjunctive.
• Second conditional sentences.
• Future simple.
• Conditional simple y compuesto.
• Revision of imperative tense affirmative and negative.
• Pronouns, prepositions.
• Different clause types

Cultural Content

• Telling jokes
• Idioms
• Introduction to poetry
• Arts and Literature and music
• How is life in modern cities in Latin America
• Slang vocabulary and expressions

Skill Work

• Active oral practice
• Listening
• Debates
• Accents
• Reading and some Writing

Have finishing touch to the language in C1 module. At this point, a person will be speaking Dutch with confidence in almost any kind of situation, whether at home,with friends, at work, or at university. This is a level you won’t master by taking language courses only but by using Dutch in your daily life

Functional Content

• Describe and value people.
• Definition and description of objects.
• Relate moments from the past.
• Express prohibition.
• Express obligation.
• Highlight or give importance to something.
• Recommend and advise.
• React by showing our feelings.
• React to other people's wishes.
• Express likes wishes and feelings.
• Show skepticism.
• Express wishes that are difficult or impossible to fulfill.
• Formulate hypotheses in the present and past.
• Against arguing.
• Compare objects and people.
• Express agreement and disagreement.
• Express approval and disapproval.
• Argue and debate.
• Summarize arguments.
• Convey orders, requests, and advice (in the present and past).
• Transmit messages (in present and past).
• Repeat a previous or budget order.
• Sequence arguments.
• Structure the speech.
• Give coherence to a text.
• Make literary use of language.
• Narrate using different tenses

Grammar Content

• Advanced uses 
• Verbs and verbal periphrasis of transformation and change.
• Review of the affirmative and negative imperative with pronouns.
• Uses of having and carrying in physical descriptions.
• Verbs with prepositions.
• Although indicative and subjunctive.
• Subjunctive revision (present, imperfect, and past perfect).
• Review of classes of conditional sentences.
• More colloquial expressions.
• The pluperfect subjunctive.
• He is impersonal.
• Connectors (additive, counter-argumentative, causal, consequential, ordering of discourse).
• Frequently used prefixes and suffixes.
• The indicative vs subjunctive.
• Time correlation in the indirect style.
• Derivation of adjectives from nouns.
• Comparative constructions.
• Neutral pronouns.
• Leísmo, Laísmo, Loísmo.
• Other periphrases.
• Synonyms and antonyms.
• The accentuation and general rules of spelling.
• Interpretation and production of short literary texts

Pronunciation

• Identification of variants of Dutch.
• Intonation, accent, and rhythm in-variants of Dutch

It involves specialized academic, legal and technical vocabulary. It means speaking and writing without any mistakes and understanding virtually everything you read or hear, whether it’s legal language in a courtroom or slang, spoken on the streets.

Functional Content

• Judge and value.
• Express hypotheses.
• Complain and lament.
• Express likes wishes and preferences.
• Encourage and reassure.
• Recommend and advise.
• Influence the interlocutor.
• Contrast and compare ideas.
• Structure the speech.
• Relate or add information.
• Point out opposition, processes, results, and circumstances.
• Alluding to themes or interpretations of others.
• Repeat and tell what was said by another.
• React to new information by referring to previous knowledge.
• Recognize and use discourse markers indicating processes, results.
• Circumstances and temporal reference.
• Extract relevant information and make a summary.
• Give compliments and react to compliments.
• Production of different kinds of texts.

Grammar

• Review of all the subjunctive tenses.
• Subordinate substantive clauses.
• Subordinate adjective clauses with indicative and subjunctive verbs.
• Causal subordinate clauses with verbs in Indicative and subjunctive.
• Consecutive, concessive, comparative, final, and conditional sentences.
• Verbs that alternate indicative and subjunctive with the change of meaning and intentional nuances.
• Mode sentences (as and as, as, the same as if, as if ...).
• Other colloquial expressions.
• The indirect and direct style.
• Verbs that introduce the referred speech.
• Uses of the + adjective.
• More discursive markers.
• Process of the derivation of adjectives to verbs.
• Values ​​of yourself.
• Prepositional phrases.
• Adverbial phrases.
• Review of the rules of spelling and stress.
• Production and analysis of written texts

Pronunciation

• Identification of variants of dutch
• Intonation, accent, and rhythm in-variants of Dutch