LLI0595 - Spanish Course for Brain Stimulation and Wellness Experience
Course Description
The benefits of learning a foreign language at an older age go beyond exercising the brain. Like learning any other skill, learning a new language provides a sense of reward and boosts confidence. In turn, this tends to give many seniors a boost in their social lives. Plus, the actual process of learning a new language provides plenty of opportunities to socialize. Taking classes with other like-minded people and practicing a newly learned language with native speakers are the best ways to become fluent, make friends, and stimulate your mind.
This Spanish course is a one hour class that meets once a week, for eight weeks, and will provide the student with the ability to use their original thoughts to express their needs and wants, in the Spanish language, using basic inter-communicative skills (BICS). The lessons are tailored to provide the student with situational opportunities to use the Spanish language. The structure utilizes phrases, vocabulary, and oral practice that are useful in everyday activities, and especially at particular situations outlined in the theme for each weekly meeting. Students will have an opportunity to develop their own dialogs working in pairs using the materials learned in the lessons, and become familiar with basic usage of Spanish to express their wants, preferences, and needs in a fun and interactive manner.
Learner Outcomes
Program:
Week 1. Greetings and introductions
Useful phrases
Greeting and saying goodbyes
Vocabulary
Oral practice