Course Description
Course Name: Spanish 2
Subject: Foreign Languages
Course Number: 0708350
Credit Earned: 1.0 credit
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Spanish I
Course description: Are you ready for some more adventure? In Spanish II, you will travel through Central America and the Caribbean spending time in museums, traffic jams, and even in the hospital. But do not worry, there is a plane waiting to take you back home at the end of your journey.
In this course, you will broaden your Spanish vocabulary and your knowledge of grammar. You will meet people from many different countries and cultures. While waiting for your plane ride home, you will also meet some Spanish-speaking people from different parts of the United States.
The purpose of this course is to strengthen your Spanish listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. You will also experience the beauty and expressiveness of a language that is shared by different people and cultures throughout the world.
Major Topics & Concepts:
Segment 1
Miami and the Hispanic Influence in Florida
Cuban Culture influence in Miami
Table setting
Food
Furniture
Clothing
Colors
Ordinal Numbers
Entertaiment
Sports and Recreation
Weather Expressions
Library and Classroom objects
Family Members
Cognates
Accent marks
Subject pronouns
Present tense
-ar,-er, & -ir verbs
Verb: hay
Present tense Irregular verbs: Hacer, Poner, Salir, Tener, Traer, Ir, Ser, Estar, Tener, Venir
Nouns and Adjectives: gender, number, and agreement
Verb: Gustar
Present tense Stem-Changing verbs: e-ie, o-ue
Present tense Irregular verb: Dar
Indirect Object Pronouns
Possessive Adjectives
Questions Words
The Coast of Mexico
Yucatan
Mayans
The Body
Toiletries
Time telling vs. time of activities (son las vs. a las)
Present tense Regular Reflexive verbs and Pronouns
Present tense stem-changing reflexive verbs
Irregular Present tense verbs: Ser & Estar
The Interior of Mexico
Hotel & Vacation
- Preterite tense of Regular –ar verbs
- Preterite tense of verbs with spelling changes: -car,-zar, -gar
- Preterite verbs
- Making payments vocabulary
- Cleaning vocabulary
- Irregular preterite verbs
- The culture of Guatemala
- The superlative adjectives
- Post office vocabulary
- Computer vocabulary
- Telephone vocabulary
- Conocer y Saber
- Negative Expressions
- Nobel Peace Prize winners, Asturias and Menchú
- The Culture of Costa Rica
- Animal vocabulary
- The imperfect tense
- Irregular imperfect verbs
- Comparisons with adjectives
- Comparisons with adverbs
- Demonstrative adjectives
Segment 2
- The culture of Panama
- Car/traffic/driving vocabulary
- Comparisons
- Superlatives
- Preterite vs Imperfect
- The culture of Colombia and Venezuela
- Body part/hospital/illness vocabulary
- Imperatives
- Dolerse
- Direct/indirect/double object pronouns
- The culture of Puerto Rico/Cuba/La República Dominicana
- Famous Hispanic artists
- Art/movie vocabulary
- Gustar and gustar like verbs
- Future tense
- Irregular future tense verbs
- Places in the US with Spanish names
- English words with Spanish origins
- Currency of other countries
- Famous Hispanic Americans
- Airport vocabulary
- Phrases indicating time
- Hace/que in present and preterite
- Acabar de
- Present progressive
- Past progressive
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