Grade 10-12 · secular
Year one taught your child to speak. Year two teaches them to be worth listening to. The method has not changed and that is deliberate: Clara talks with them one-to-one, never explains grammar, and when they say something wrong she simply says it back correctly and keeps going — the way you learned your own first language from the adults around you. What changes is the demand. She speaks much more Spanish, she pushes for four sentences where one used to do, and she will disagree with your child on purpose so they have to defend a position. Progress is still judged by an independent examiner that only counts what they actually demonstrated in conversation, and this year that examiner is grading against B1 and B2 can-do statements.
The whole year, in plain English. Tap any unit to see every skill inside, nothing is hidden.
Getting back into Spanish, then breaking the one-sentence-answer habit: longer turns, joined-up sentences, real description, and asking questions that keep someone talking.
Get back into Spanish after a break
Answer with more than one sentence
Link my sentences so they flow
Describe someone so well you'd recognize them
Say what I'm into and defend it
Ask questions that keep someone talking
Talk for two minutes without stopping
Stories that move around in time, explaining how things work and why they happened, giving instructions, and relaying what someone else said.
Tell a story that jumps around in time
Explain how something works
Explain why something happened
Describe a routine that changed
Give instructions and warnings
Report what someone else said
Explain something complicated to someone who doesn't know it
Reasons, arguing both sides, polite disagreement, answering objections, hedging, complaining, and hypotheticals.
Give an opinion with a real reason behind it
Argue both sides of something
Disagree without being rude
Answer an objection to my own argument
Say something carefully when I'm not sure
Complain or push back about a problem
Talk about what I would do if things were different
Hold a position for a whole conversation
Regional differences, speaking differently to a stranger than a friend, awkward requests, news, films, places, and following speech that isn't slowed down for them.
Understand that Spanish isn't one thing
Speak differently to a stranger than to a friend
Ask for something awkward, politely
Talk about news or something happening in the world
Discuss a film, show or song in Spanish
Talk about a place and the people who live there
Follow a conversation that isn't aimed at me
Humour, fixing your own mistakes mid-sentence, hopes and regrets, plans after school, explaining your own culture, and repairing a conversation that goes wrong.
Say something funny on purpose
Fix my own mistakes mid-sentence
Say what I hope, fear and regret
Talk about my future — study, work, plans
Explain my culture to someone who doesn't share it
Handle a conversation that goes wrong
Talk for a long time about anything at all
From the parent guide
Year one taught your child to speak. Year two teaches them to be worth listening to. The method has not changed and that is deliberate: Clara talks with them one-to-one, never explains grammar, and when they say something wrong she simply says it back correctly and keeps going — the way you learned your own first language from the adults around you. What changes is the demand. She speaks much more Spanish, she pushes for four sentences where one used to do, and she will disagree with your child on purpose so they have to defend a position. Progress is still judged by an independent examiner that only counts what they actually demonstrated in conversation, and this year that examiner is grading against B1 and B2 can-do statements.
Unit 1 · what to expect
Getting back into Spanish, then breaking the one-sentence-answer habit: longer turns, joined-up sentences, real description, and asking questions that keep someone talking.
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