SPA 101: ELEMENTARY SPANISH II

FALL 2014

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

INSTRUCTOR:

OFFICE:

OFFICE HOURS:

SPA102 - COURSE SCHEDULE

FALL 2014

Dates Lesson Topics Homework (due by

11:59 p.m. before the

next class) Wednesday-

September

3

• “A concernos un poco”

• Actividades comunicativas

• Introduction to the

course

• Overview of Syllabus

& My

Spanish Lab

• Present Indicative

Review

• Print Syllabus

from Website

& read in

detail

• Review sheet

Friday-

September 5

• Actividades comunicativas

• Actividades de conjugación en contexto: Present Tense

• Repaso: Regular verbs, Stem changing verbs, Irregular verbs

• ¡Pura Vida! Episodio 1

• Talking about what you and others do on a regular basis

• Video

• Review sheet

• Read /study

pages

156-157

WEEK #2

Monday-

September 8

• “Conversaciones”

• Repaso: verbos reflexivos,

expresiones con TENER

• ¡Pura vida! Episodio 2

• Describing your daily

routines & habits (pág.156)

• Talking about how you and others feel

• Video

• Watch ¡Pura vida! Episodios 3 &

4

• Do video

activities

• MSL

Wednesday-

September

10

• “Conversaciones”

• Repaso: el presente

progresivo

• Pura vida! Episodio 5

• Describing what is happening at the moment

• Video

• MSL

Friday-

September

12

• CAPÍTULO 6: Buen

Provecho!

• Vocabulary: La comida y

las bebidas (pg. 187)

Conversaciones

• Discussing food,

eating preferences,

and ordering meals

• MSL

WEEK #3

Monday-

September

15

• Direct objects, indirect object pronouns. (Pg. 190)

• Verbs: “to say/to tell and to give”(pg. 191)

• Talking about

things and

expressing to

whom or for

whom

Tarea #1: Pronombres directos/indirectos

• MSL

Wednesday-

September

17

• Cont. Indirect object

nouns/pr

onouns

• Gustar and similar verbs

(pg. 193)

• ¿Cuánto saben?

• Expressing likes and

dislikes

• MSL

Friday-

September 19

• Reading: Mi

experiencia: Tren de la

ruta del vino (pg. 196)

• Mi música

• Temas culturales

• Audio

• MSL

WEEK #4

Monday-

September

22

• Vocabulary: En la cocina

(Pg. 199)

• Conversaciones

• Letras y sonidos: The sequences s, z, ce, and ci in Spanish (pg. 200)

• Discussing foods,

cooking, and recipes

• Study

(pgs.202- 203)

• Tarea #2: Pretérito regular

• MS

L

Wednesday-

September

24

• Introduction to Preterit

Tense:

regular verbs (pg. 202)

• Preterit: Verbs

ending in -car, - gar

& -zar (pg. 203)

• Actividades comunicativas y mecánicas en contexto

• Talking about

events in the past

• Verbs with a change in the “yo” form

• Study (pg 206)

• Tarea # 3:

Stem

changing

verbs

• MSL WEEK # 5

Monday-

September

29

• “Todo junto” en el pasado

• Actividades comunicativas y mecánicas en

Contexto

• QUIZ # 1

• Talking about what

you and others did in the past

• QUIZ # 1

• MSL

Wednesday- October 1

• Reading: Nuestro

mundo: Chile: un país de contrastes (pg. 210)

• Writing activity

• ¡Pura Vida! Episodio 6

• Temas culturales

• Writing workshop

• Video

• MSL

Friday-

October 3

• CAPÍTULO 7: A

divertirnos!

• Vocabulary: El tiempo

libre (pg. 219)

• “Conversaciones”

• Talking about

activities you

like to do in

your free time

• Making plans to do something

• Study (pg.222)

• Tarea # 5

• MSL

WEEK #6

Monday-

October 6

• Irregular verbs in the

Preterit (pg.

222)

• Verbs: SER, IR, ESTAR,

TENER, DAR,

& VER

• Talking about some activities in the past

• MSL

Wednesday- October 8

• CONT. Preterit

• Indefinite and negative expressions (pg. 225)

• Talking about

some activities in the past

• Talking about

indefinite people

and things, and

people and

things that do

not exist

• MSL

Friday- October 10

• Reading: Mi

experiencia: Una

quinceañera. (pg.

228)

• Vocabulary: Los

deportes y las

actividades

deportivas (pg. 231)

• Conversaciones

• Temas culturales

• Talking about different sports

• Study (pg.234)

• Tarea # 6:

preterit-

irregular

• MSL

WEEK #7

Monday- October 13

NO CLASS-

COLUMBUS DAY

Wednesday- October 15

• Letras y sonidos

:ca,co,cu,que, & K

• More irregular Verbs in

the Preterit: PODER,

PONER, SABER, VENIR,

HACER, QUERER,

DECIR, TRAER (pg.

234)

• Actividades

comunicativas y

mecánicas en

contexto

• Reporting more past

events and activities

• STUDY FOR

QUIZ # 2:

irregular

preterit

• MSL

Friday- October 17

• QUIZ # 2

• Cont. Preterit

• Introduction to Double

object

Pronouns (pg. 237)

• Taking

shortcuts in

conversation to

avoid

repetition

• MSL

• Tarea # 7:

Double

object

pronouns

WEEK #8

Monday-

October 20

• CONT. Double object

pronouns

• Reading:

Panoramas: Las

islas hispánicas del

Caribe: Cuba,

Puerto Rico y

República

Dominicana (pg.

242)

• Pura vida! Episodio 7

• Taking

shortcuts in

conversation to

avoid

repetition

• Actividades

culturales

• Video

• PREPARE

FOR

WRITING

SAMPLE # 1

• MSL

Wednesday- October 22

• WRITING SAMPLE 1:

Una entrada en tu foro

electrónico

• Repaso Exam # 1

• STUDY FOR EXAM # 1

• MSL

Friday-

October 24

• EXAM # 1

(Chapters 6 & 7)

• EXAM # 1

• Study Vocab. Pgs. 250 & 251

• MSL WEEK #9

Monday-

October 27

• CAPÍTULO 8: ¿En qué puedo servirle?

• Vocabulary: Las compras y la ropa (pg. 248)

• “Conversaciones”

• Talking about

clothes and

shopping at a

department store

• MSL

Wednesday-

October 29

• The Imperfect Tense (pág.

254)

• Talking about

what used to

happen and what

you used to do in

the past

• MSL

Friday-

October 31

• CONT. Imperfect Tense

• Irregular verbs (pg. 255)

• Writing: Una descripción

• Irregular verbs: SER,

IR, VER

• Writing workshop

# 2: Describing a

scene in the past

• Tarea # 8

• Study Ordinal

#’s (pg. 258)

and Vocab. (pg.

263)

• MSL

WEEK #10

Monday-

November 3

• Ordinal numbers (pg. 258)

• Reading: Mi experiencia: De compras en Perú (pg. 260)

• Vocabulary: Tiendas y

productos personales

(pg. 263)

• Conversaciones

• Giving the order

in which things

appear or events

occur.

• Temas culturales

• Shopping for personal care products

STUDY (pgs. 266 -

267)

• MSL

Wednesday-

November 5

• Introduction to Preterit vs.

Imperfect (pg. 266)

• Oral assessment (in class preparation)

• Letras y Sonidos j, ge, gi,

and x (pg. 264)

• Contrasting what

happened in the past

with something else

that was going on

• Tarea# 9 :

Preterit vs

imperfect

• MSL

Friday-

November 7

• Cont. Preterit vs. Imperfect

(pg. 266)

• Actividades comunicativas y mecánicas en contexto

• Oral

assessment (in

class

preparation)

• Narrating in the past

• Practice for oral assessment

• MSL

WEEK #11

Monday-

November 10

• Oral

assessment (in

class

presentation)

• In class Oral exam • MSL

• Study for Quiz # 3: Preterit vs Imperfect

Wednesday-

November

12

NO CLASS-

TUESDAY’S CLASS MEETS

• ON LINE

QUIZ #3: Tuesday

11

• Reading:

Panoramas:

El reino inca:

Perú y

Ecuador

• ¡Pura vida!

Episodio 8

• MSL

Friday-

November 14

• Impersonal

constructions with “se” (pág. 271)

• CAPÍTULO 9: Vamos

de viaje

• Vocabulario: En el

aeropuerto

• “Conversaciones”

• Signs,

instructions, and

rules given to no

one in particular

• Making travel arrangements

• Requesting travel-related information

• MSL

WEEK #12

Monday- November

17

• POR vs. PARA

(pág. 289)

• Adverbs

ending in

- mente

• ¿Cuánto saben?

(Pg. 295)

• Talking about

going to and through places

• Describing how and when actions take place

• Prepare for writing #2

• MSL

Wednesday-

November 19

• Vocabulary: Los viajes (pg.

299)

• “Conversaciones”

• Writing sample # 2

• Describing

travel and

vacation

experiences

• Writing #2

• MSL

Friday-

November 21

• The Spanish

Subjunctive: An

introduction (pg.

302)

• Review for exam # 2

• Trying to

influence

another

person

• STUDY for

EXAM # 2

• MSL

WEEK #13

Monday-

November 24

• EXAM #2 (Chapters 8

& 9)

• MSL

Wednesday-

November

26

• The subjunctive

to express

influence (pg

306)

• Pura Vida! Episodio 9

• Giving advice

• Tarea # 10: subjuntiv

o

• Study for

Quiz# 4

Subjuntivo

• MSL Friday- November

28

No Class Thanksgivin-g Break

WEEK #14

Monday-

December 1

• QUIZ #4: Subjuntivo

• CAPÍTULO # 10: ¡Tu salud es lo primero!

• Vocabulario: las partes del cuerpo humano (pg. 320-321)

• Conversaciones

• QUIZ #4

• Talking about your

health and

explaining what part

of your body hurts

• MSL

Wednesday-

December 3

• Cont. Vocabulario:

Las partes del cuerpo

• Formal commands (pg.

324)

• Talking about your

health and

explaining what part

of your body hurts

• Requesting that others do something

• MSL

Friday-

December 5

• Reading: Mi

experiencia: La

medicina tradicional

en Boilivia (pg. 330)

• Mi música

• Temas culturales

• Activitidades

auditivas

• MSL

WEEK #15

Monday-

December 8

Last day of class

Final Exam

Date to be

announced

• REPASO PARA EXAMEN

FINAL

Tuesday- December 9

Reading Day

Wednesday-

December 10

Reading Day