Transcript title

2nd Year Spanish II

Credits

4

Grading mode

Standard letter grades

Total contact hours

40

Lecture hours

40

Recommended preparation

SPAN 201 or four years of high school Spanish.

Course Description

Continues with the intermediate development of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Focuses on the concepts of relative pronouns, the imperative (commands: formal, informal, plural, and singular), the use of pronouns with the imperative, the impersonal and passive se, comparisons, using se to describe unplanned occurrences or accidents, the simple future tense, and vocabulary including the following categories: travel, shopping, fine art, and nature and the environment.

Course learning outcomes

1. Create meaningful, creative phrases in the present, past and future tenses using an increased number of moods within these tenses.
2. Use an increasingly complex vocabulary in a wider 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 Spanish 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 continued study of history, literature, art, music, film, and gastronomy.
6. Use both online and traditional resources (dictionaries, word searches, conjugation tables, etc.) to locate and manipulate new words and unfamiliar concepts.

Content outline

1. Vocabulary covering traffic and accidents.
2. Using the preterite and imperfect to describe mental and emotional states.
3. An overview of the preterite and imperfect.
4. Vocabulary covering travel.
5. Relative pronouns (que and quien).
6. Commands.
7. Formal (Ud./Uds.).
8. Nosotros.
9. Informal.
10. Commands with pronouns.
11. Vocabulary covering household chores and items.
12. Vocabulary covering shopping.
13. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns (this/that/these/those).
14. Vocabulary covering art.
15. Estar with past participles (or: past participles as adjectives).
16. Using se to describe accidental or unplanned occurrences.

Required materials

Textbook may be required, see syllabus.

General education/Related instruction lists

• Cultural Literacy
• Arts and Letters