Spanish B1 module 5: Household management (Household management)

This is learning module 5 of 6 of our Spanish B1 syllabus. Each learning module contains 6 till 8 chapters.

Learning goals:

  • Family management
  • House maintenance
  • Most common household paperwork

Lessons (7)

B1.31 - Visita de pisos y mudanza (Houseviewing and moving)

  • Be able to express yourself when searching a new place to live
  • Most common monthly bills in the house
  • Talk about moving to your new place
  • Non-finite forms of the verb: no comer, fue caminando...

B1.32 - Decoración del hogar (Home decoration)

  • Describe your home and its decoration in detail
  • Talk about preferences about different decoration styles
  • Explain changes made to your home
  • Temporal clauses: Mientras, Cuando, Hasta que...

B1.33 - Servicios de limpieza (Housekeeping services)

  • Advanced house cleaning routines
  • Electronic devices for cleaning
  • Contracting a cleaning service
  • Relative and interrogative adverbs: donde, cuando, como

B1.34 - Robo con allanamiento de morada (Burglary)

  • Call for help in case of emergency
  • Home protection services and alarms
  • Ser and Estar

B1.35 - Contratación de cuidados a domicilio (Contracting care at home)

  • Handling family problems
  • How social services work
  • Childcare and care for the elderly
  • Relative pronouns: el que, quien, cuyo

B1.36 - Finanzas diarias e impuestos (Daily finances and taxes)

  • Manage personal investments
  • Taxes in the host country
  • How to use online banking and manage payments
  • The passive voice — review: se firmó, se pagan, se entregará...

B1.37 - Estado civil (Civil state)

  • Talk about your family situation
  • Talk about different relationship types
  • Arrange your civil state (registering at the city hall or signing forms at the notary)
  • Estar + gerundio to talk about the future: estaré hablando; estarás organizando...