2.1 This class is for INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS that have at least 1 year experience with daily Spanish immersion (speaking with someone in Spanish back and forth for at least 400 hours - more or less 2 hours a day of constant conversation in Spanish (not just able to understand)). 

Classes are in 100% Spanish. Your child should be able to easily carry on conversations with fluency about basic daily activities, past activities, and future ones without too much effort.

Enroll at any time. We use a theme each week and present the vocabulary at the beginning of every class. 

This is for complete beginners with 1-50 hours of speaking practice. Level 1.1. Every new student should take 3 classes at this level to get an assessment. If you are higher, we will let you know. 

We use The Bellieu Method (our trademarked method and curriculum) with a goal of fluency. We ask questions throughout the below activities to create conversations in class:
Singing
Games
Storybooks
Vocabulary and photos (95% in Spanish, but very clear directions
Comics
Short videos (but your child will not be watching videos like you think, we pause and interact throughout, creating conversations!)
Movement
And more


What will they learn or talk about?

In every TruFluency Kids Spanish Immersion class, we have 2-3 themes that we touch on (for example traveling, animals, hobbies, what you like to eat, etc). During the discussion of these themes, we will focus on being able to express ourselves in Spanish in regards to this theme. 

While the focus is always on listening/speaking, since that is how children learn language first (and most successfully), we also incorporate writing and quick spelling exercises in classes with children 7 and up.

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THEMES WITH DATES
2-week Summer Camp ☀️: "¡Sí, puedo!" 🐮 (Yes, I can!) - June 23 to July 6

If your child takes 1 class/week, these are the lessons they will have per week:
Week 1 (July 7 - July 13): Lessons 1-2
Week 2 (July 14 - July 20): Lessons 3-4


ACTIVITIES PER LESSON (Every Curriculum)
Every lesson in our curriculum has a set of activities which follow the structure below. Stories, songs, videos, games and crafts are always part of our lessons:
-Activity 1. Personal questions. Students practice basic and daily personal questions according to their level (quantity and difficulty vary). We are going to repeat this set of questions throughout the whole course. 
-Activity 2: Let’s get ready. Students learn and practice the keywords, expressions, questions and answers we will find later in the next chapter of the story.
-Activity 3: Story time! Students read the main story with the teacher. The stories are written for each level respectively. The difficulty, number of words and topics change.
-Activity 4: What was the story about? Students answer questions about the story to review vocabulary and expressions.
-Activity 5: Now’s your turn. Students answer questions about themselves using the topics seen in the story’s content and the characters’ dialogues. 
-Activity 6: Students read the story one more time. Kids repeat the words and act the story out.
-Activity 7: Older students learn and practice an extra topic related to the main story.
-Activity 8: Students use the main and extra vocabulary learned from the story in real life situations in which these will be useful and practical.
-Activity 9: Students review what they learned in today’s class.
-Activity 10: Intermediate students (levels 2.2 to 3.1) discuss and talk about a certain topic with open questions related to the content of the lesson.

MAIN TOPICS PER LESSON in "¡Sí, puedo!" 🐮 (Yes, I can!) 

Lessons 1-2: 
Students will learn and practice in Spanish:
-Phrase “I can” + different skills and activities.
-Question “Can you...?” “Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.”
-Activities and situations in cities and little towns or farms.
-The first chapter of the story introduces two kids: Blue Girl and Yellow Boy. They will show us what the can and can’t do both in a small town and a big city, respectively.
-7 to 12 years old students: Can you…? + extra verbs and different places. Example: Can you surf at the beach? Yes, I can. 
-Intermediate students: Talk about everything they can or can’t do in their neighborhoods. Students will compare how different the activities in places around the country can be.

Lessons 3-4: 
Students will learn and practice in Spanish:
-Word “There is/There are” + places and food in cities and little towns or farms. Example: There is a river in this town.
-Review phrase “I can” + different skills and activities and question “Can you...?” “Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.”
-Add the questions “Why” and answer “Because…”. Example: I can’t swim. Why? Because the water is too cold.
-The second chapter of the story shows us more things Blue Girl and Yellow Boy can or can’t do. But this time we are going to ask them why. Funny scenes and situations will show students how these words and questions work in Spanish.
-Activity with the word “can” and the question “Why?”. Every student will tell the class if they can or can’t do whatever is shown on screen.
-7 to 12 years old students: Can you…? + extra verbs and different places + Why? Why not?
-Expression “Let me see”. The teacher asks students what they can do. If someone says they can, teacher will reply “Let me see…”, then students will have to act it out and prove it.
-Intermediate students: Talk about strange tasks and activities they can or can’t do at home. Students will discuss about whether it is possible to do what is shown on the slides or not.

NEXT…

THEMES WITH DATES
2-week Summer Camp ☀️: "La tiendita" 🍪 (The little shop) - July 7 to July 20

If your child takes 1 class/week, these are the lessons they will have per week:
Week 1 (July 7 - July 13): Lessons 1-2
Week 2 (July 14 - July 20): Lessons 3-4

MAIN TOPICS PER LESSON in "La tiendita" 🍪 (The little shop)

Lessons 1-2: 
Students will learn and practice in Spanish:
-Phrase “There is/There are” + food and kitchen stuff vocabulary.
-Phrase “I don’t have” + fruits and vegetables. 
-Question “Can I have…?” + fruits and vegetables. “Yes, you can have…”.
-The first chapter of the story introduces Gaby, a girl who notices she hasn’t got any cookies left to watch movies. She tells her grandfather they need to buy a box. Her grandfather gives her some money and sends her to the little shop a few blocks away.
-Questions “Is there/Are there…?” + food and kitchen stuff. “Yes, there is/are”, “No, there isn’t/aren’t”.
-Asking for money before going to a store or a supermarket.
-Expression “Thank you” after getting something from someone.
-7 to 12 years old students: Look at a map and follow directions to get to different places using expressions like “Go straight”, “Cross the street”, “Turn left/right”. 
-Intermediate students: Look at a map with more information and places and practice how to ask for and give directions to others. Students will have to be specific and clear to help their classmates get to the right place on time.

Lessons 3-4: 
Students will learn and practice in Spanish:
-Review the phrase “There is/There are” + groceries vocabulary (cookies, sodas, bottles of water, candy, fruit, etc.)
-The second chapter of the story shows us how Gaby gets to the store and talks to the owner. She wants to buy a box of cookies, but he offers her things she doesn’t need and ends up buying everything! What will her grandfather tell her after spending all the money he gave her?
-See how money in Mexico looks like. Teacher will describe coins and bills Mexicans use. Kids will say which one is their favorite and make an easy drawing out of them. Bills in Mexico have animals that represent the country. – Later this vocabulary will let us ask students how much something is. Students will answer “It costs $100 pesos”.
-7 to 12 years old students: Pretend they visit a little shop and boy some products. We will repeat all the questions and expressions any Spanish speaker would use when going shopping: I would like…, Can I have…? Are there…? How much…? etc.
-Intermediate students: Watch videos explaining what the animals on the Mexican bills mean and what’s the story behind each design. Students will make comments and share their opinions about them while comparing Mexican and American money.