Foreign Language

Spanish I

Daniel Stevanus, Instructor

*Minimum 8 students required for class to be guaranteed.

This course is designed to introduce students to various aspects of Spanish as a foreign language, including but not limited to grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension. We will learn the fundamentals by studying various cultural topics and by practicing subject material through conversation, interactive classroom activities, readings, and translation assignments. Hopefully this unique classroom experience will encourage the students to sincerely consider pursuing serious development of their Spanish, since it has become and continues to grow into an extremely useful and marketable talent.

Textbook: Avancemos Level 1 (Publication year 2006), ISBN: 9780618594061 Workbook: Avancemos Cuaderno - Practica por niveles, ISBN: 9780618782185

Spanish II

Daniel Stevanus, Instructor

Prerequisites: Spanish 1 - taken from TBA or interview/placement test

This course will reinforce the skills learned in Spanish 1 including listening, speaking, reading and writing. Emphasis will be placed on perfecting pronunciation, mastery of basic grammar, and increased proficiency communicating. Students will be exposed to the past tenses, future, conditional and subjunctive mood. Students will be expected to apply these in writing and speaking through classroom participation, group and individual assignments, and projects.

Scope and Sequence: Thematic Vocabulary: Going on a trip, vacation, sports and health, daily routines, clothes and shopping, at the market, legends and stories, past and present, preparing and describing food, ordering meals, making movies, invitations to premiere, school newspaper, family and relationships, the environment and conservation, careers and professions. 

Grammar: Definite and indefinite articles, subject pronouns and SER, adjectives, verb GUSTAR, IR+A+place, SER or Estar, regular present tense verbs, stem-changing verbs, direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, Preterite of -AR, -ER, -IR, SER, HACER, VER, DAR, -CAR, -ZAR, -GAR verbs, demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, reflexive verbs, present progressive, present tense of YO verbs, pronouns after prepositions, irregular preterite verbs, imperfect tense, USTED/USTEDES commands, pronoun placement with commands, affirmative and negative words, double object pronouns, affirmative & negative Tu commands, present subjunctive with ojala, subjunctive with impersonal expressive, POR and PARA, comparatives, superlatives, other impersonal expressions, future tense of regular verbs, future tense of irregular verbs.

Textbook: Avancemos Level 2 (Publication year 2006), ISBN: 0618687254 Workbook: Avancemos Level 2 Cuaderno Practica por niveles, ISBN: 0618782192