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Spanish 110: Communicating in Spanish I

¡Bienvenidos! This is what is covered in SPAN 110:

Textbook: Dos mundos: en breve. Comunicación y comunidad. 3rd edition. Terrell, Andrade, Egasse, Muñoz.


Paso A: La clase y los estudiantes
Vocabulary: my name is , colors, clothing, numbers up to 39, commands given in the classroom, greetings
Grammar: llamarse, llevar, alphabet , ser, gender, commands
Culture: Panama

Paso B: Las descripciones
Vocabulary: things in the classroom, human body, descriptions for people
Grammar: tú vs. usted, hay, negation, plurals, adjective-noun agreement and placement of nouns
Culture: Nicaragua

Paso C: Mi familia y mis amigos
Vocabulary: family, nationalities and language names, numbers up to a hundred
Grammar: tener, expressing age, ser de(l), possessive adjectives, regular -ar verbs (present tense)
Culture: Colombia

Capituló uno: Los datos personales y las actividades
Vocabulary: days of the week, month, personal information (phone number, address), sports names, other pastimes
Grammar: Numbers to 1000, dates, regular -er and -ar verbs (present tense), question formation, telling time, gustar
Culture: Cuba, Frida y Diego, La pasión por los deportes

Capítulo dos: Mis planes y preferencias
Vocabulary: weather terms, daily activities, names of classes/school subjects
Grammar: future "ir a + inf.", ordinal numbers (primero, 2do...), preferir, querer, weather, demonstrative adjectives (este, esa...)
Culture: Ecuador, Carmen Naranjo, otras lecturas

Capítulo tres: Los lugares y las actividades
Vocabulary: names of typical buildings in a city , food, prepositions of place (abajo de, entre...)
Grammar: estar en, ir a, hacer, salir, jugar
Culture: la comunidad hispana en los Estados Unidos, Antoni Gaudí, Alfonsina Storni,

Capítulo cuatro: La vida diaria y los días feriados
Vocabulary: holidays, daily routine verbs, words for describing moods and states of being
Grammar: stem-changing verbs (ie, ue) in present tense, irregular verbs, reflexive verbs infinitives after prepositions, describing states of being
Culture: Guatemala, José Martí, las calaveras de Posada, Carnaval

Capítulo cinco: Las clases y el trabajo
Vocabulary: names of professions, verbs and place names that go along with those professions
Grammar: indirect object pronouns (me, le...), saber, poder, present progressive (está hablando), expressing obligation and duty (tener que, deber, necesitar, etc.), expressing plans and desires with pensar, quisiera, me gustaría, tener ganas de
Culture: Venezuela, José Emilio Pacheco, el español de hoy

 

 

 


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