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What is the course outline? Please organize by unit, and by the topics, objectives or questions that each unit will cover. Units should relate to one of the essential questions.
Each unit has been developed carefully with the essential questions in mind. Every unit will implement grammar and discuss special cultural themes in order to enhance the knowledge of the target language and awareness of the Spanish speaking world.
Throughout the course students will be able to:
Unit 1:
1. Review the use of the present tense verbs ending in -ar, -er, -ir.
2. Formulate affirmative and negative sentences.
3. Review the use of verbs in the infinitive form.
4. Learn how to make and answer questions in Spanish.
5. Correctly use ser and estar.
6. Build present progressive with estar + present participle.
7. Use tener and the common expressions associated with tener.
8. Use Ir and construct the immediate future tense, Ir+a
9. Cultural awareness of Chile, Mexico, Panama and Spain.
Unit 2:
1. Correctly use verbs ending in -Cer and -Cir.
2. Difference between saber and conocer.
3. Use common ways to express possession.
4. Use direct, indirect and demonstrative pronouns.
5. Use of articles with adjectives.
6. Express personal reactions with gustar and other similar verbs.
7. Correctly use the verb decir.
8. Cultural awareness of Spanish poetry by reading Machado and Bécquer.
Unit 3:
1. Incorporate exclamations into written and spoken communication. (ex: ¡Qué + noun or adjective)
2. Correctly use and identify present tense verbs that have a change in the stem. (e--->ie) ,(o,u--->ue), (e--->i)
3. Understand and be able to use reflexive verb constructions, through use of personal care, daily activity and emotions vocabulary.
4. Correctly use and identify verbs that have an irregular change in the yo form (changes to -go).
5. Use reflexive pronouns with present progressive.
6. Cultural awareness: special occasions, holidays, marriage traditions, bull fighting, dance.
Unit 4:
1. Use the present tense to discuss actions and conditions which began in the past. (hace + presente)
2. Use the construction acabar + de + infinitive to discuss things that happened in the immediate past.
3. Use and understand the difference between ordinal and cardinal numbers.
4. Use of adjectives and possessive pronouns.
5. Use of the preterite tense for regular verbs ending in -Ar, -Er, and -Ir and irregular verbs.
6. Use the diminutive forms of words (-ito)
7. Understand when to use stressed possessive adjectives.
8. Use the construction preterite + hace.
9. Identify and know the meanings of verbs that end in -mente.
10. Cultural awareness: Socialization, family values, vacations.
Unit 5:
1. Use affirmative and negative expressions (nada, nadie, etc.)
2. Use the imperfect tense of verbs that end in -Ar, -Er, and -Ir as well as the irregular verbs.
3. Contrast and understand when to use the preterite and imperfect.
4. Cultural Awareness: Superstitions, literature, manners, Simón Bolivar.
Unit 6:
1. Use the impersonal pronoun 'se'.
2. Utilize vocabulary related to shopping.
3. Use of the regular and irregular past participles.
4. Use prepositions.
5. Understand when to use the present perfect tense and the pluperfect tense.
6. Cultural Awareness: Traditions of native people, The Dominican Republic, the use of 'tú', concepts of time in different countries.
Unit 7:
1. Understand and use the future tense.
2. Use adjectives to make comparisons.
3. Understand the many uses of the verb ser+ a noun.
4. Understand and use the conditional tense.
5. Use the expression para + infinitive verbs.
6. Understand and use the future perfect tense.
7. Cultural Awareness: South American history, information about Ecuador, the modern age, how Latin countries become modernized.
Unit 8:
1. Understand and use regular and irregular commands.
2. Provide and follow directions.
3. Use verbs and prepositions with the infinitive.
4. Correctly use pronouns with commands.
5. The subjunctive.
6. Cultural Awareness: Driving customs in Spanish speaking countries, body language, gestures, family and job prospects.
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