Transcript title

2nd Year Spanish I

Credits

4

Grading mode

Standard letter grades

Total contact hours

40

Lecture hours

40

Recommended preparation

SPAN 103Z or three years of high school Spanish.

Course Description

First course of the second-year sequence. Continues, after SPAN 103Z, with the intermediate development of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Includes review of the preterite tense and vocabulary from SPAN 103Z. Focuses on the imperfect tense, (usages with and in conjunction with the preterite), indirect, direct, and double object pronouns, indefinite and negative words, por/para, creating adverbs, and vocabulary including the following categories: chores and housework, fiestas and other celebrations, pastimes and diversion, and accidents.

Course learning outcomes

1. Formulate original, simple phrases in both oral and written forms in the present, past and future tenses using several moods within these tenses.
2. Use more complex types of vocabulary in a variety of settings and relating to the world around us.
3. Initiate and respond to requests for information typical of “real world” situations in Spanish using personalized responses.
4. Read and/or listen to authentic materials in the target language, and understand their meaning on several levels, and formulate responses or reactions to said materials.
5. Recognize linguistic and cultural diversity within the Spanish-speaking world through the study of history, literature, art, music, film, and gastronomy.
6. Use both online and traditional resources (dictionaries, word searches, conjugation tables, etc.) to locate new words and manipulate those new words and unfamiliar concepts.

Content outline

1. Review of the preterite tense: verbos regulares, verbos con un cambio de raíz (stem-change) y los verbos irregulares.
2. Vocabulario de limpieza y los quehaceres domésticos.
3. The imperfect tense (in addition to the preterite, another past tense).  Las palabras negativas e indefinidas.
4. El vocabulario de los pasatiempos y la diversion.
5. Indirect object pronouns (me, te, le, nos, os, les).
6. Double object pronouns (me lo, te la, se los, etc.).
7. Vocabulario de las fiestas y las celebraciones.
8. Comparison of the preterite and imperfect.
9. More uses of the preterite and imperfect.
10. Vocabulario de los accidents.
11. Preterite and imperfect with emotions and mental states.
12. Preterite and imperfect: an overview.

Required materials

Textbook may be required, see syllabus.

General education/Related instruction lists

• Cultural Literacy
• Arts and Letters