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Spanish 115: Communicating in Spanish II

¡Hola! This is what is covered in SPAN 115:

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

Capítulo seis: La residencia
Vocabulary: rooms in a house, places in the neighborhood, chores, daily activities, presentations and greetings
Grammar: comparisons (más, menos, tan(to)), conocer vs. saber, personal direct object pronouns (me, lo, las...)
Culture: Costa Rica

Capítulo 7: Hablando del pasado
Vocabulary: general
Grammar: Preterit, expressing "ago" with "hace...", indirect object pronouns
Culture: Argentina

Capítulo 8: La comida
Vocabulary: food, restaurants
Grammar: impersonal direct object pronouns, gustar, encantar, making negative statements and questions, and the impersonal "se", stem-changing verbs like pedir and servir,
Culture: Honduras and El Salvador

Capítulo 9: La niñez y la juventud
Vocabulary: family, children's activities
Grammar: llevarse bien con, parecerse a, preposition + pronouns, the imperfect tense, the imperfect and preterit of state verbs, was going to "iba a..."
Culture: Bolivia

Capítulo 10: Nuestro planeta
Vocabulary: transportation, geographical terms, ecology and environmental concerns
Grammar: present perfect (he ido), exclamations with ¡Qué...! and ¡Cuántos...!, por vs. para, more verbs like gustar, adverbs
Culture: Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic

Capítulo 11
Vocabulary: cars, traveling (hotels, flights)
Grammar: polite commands, and present subjunctive following querer, expressing indefinite future and present subjunctive of irregular verbs (cuando vengas...), the imperfect progressive (estaba hablando), preterit versus imperfect
Culture: Uruguay and Paraguay

 

 


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