Spanish 31S Spanish Level III, First Semester Introduction

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1 Spanish 31S Spanish Level III, First Semester Introduction Welcome Welcome to Spanish 31S: Spanish Level 3, First Semester. You now have two years of Spanish behind you. Felicitaciones! Spanish 31S continues to build upon what you have already learned; and in order to do that, let's begin this course by reviewing several sections in your textbook. 1. Look at the summary of the textbook videos on pages xxviii xxix. The videos come at the end of the Unidades, which is a bit different from the first and second year courses in Spanish. The video stories in this book will all have something to do with the kids participating in different challenges, with the chance to win a really big prize. 2. Look at Why Study Spanish? on pages xxx xxxi. Here are lots of reasons to study Spanish. 3. Look at What Is Vocabulary? on pages xxxii xxxiii. Here are some great ideas on how to study vocabulary. 4. Look at What Is Grammar? on pages xxxiv xxxv. This is the place to review your strategies for studying grammar. 5. Look at What Is Culture? on pages xxxvi xxxvii. Remember that culture is a part of each lesson and each exam. To know a language, you also have to know the culture. 6. Look at Mapas on pages xxxviii xliii. Do you remember the names of common Spanish speaking countries? What are the people called (en español) that come from those countries? What is something well known about those countries? 7. Look at Las tradiciones on pages C1 C25. They're really quite interesting, a little bit about twelve different cultural themes in the Spanish-speaking world. 8. In this course, you are on your own to review the Lección preliminar on pages Lección preliminar contains most everything you should have learned in 11S, 12S, 21S, and 22S. It is worth your time to review the following: o pages 1 3, talk about yourself and friends o page 4, verbs like gustar o page 5, present tense of regular verbs o pages 6 7, activities that you know how to do o page 8, present tense of irregular verbs o page 9, present tense of irregular yo verbs o page 10, stem-changing verbs o page 11, verbs decir, tener, and venir o pages 12 13, talk about people and places in your neighborhood o page 14, saber and conocer o page 15, ser and estar o pages 16 17, talk about getting ready in the morning o pages 18 19, reflexive verbs o pages 20 21, compare food 1

2 o o o page 22, unequal comparisons pages 23 24, equal comparisons page 25, En resumen, vocabulario After you have finished reviewing all of the above, do exercises 1 5 on pages 26 27, the Repaso de la lección. Then check your answers (provided in the online course). How did you do? This review will probably help pinpoint what grammar, vocabulary, culture, or phrases you have forgotten and need to review. Buen trabajo! Now it s time to move forward with third-year Spanish. Course Objectives In this course you ll continue speaking, reading, and writing Spanish by covering Unidades 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Spanish-speaking locations you ll visit will be México, the Estados Unidos (yes, the USA!), Centroamérica, and el Caribe. You ll learn more basic phrases you can use to communicate in Spanish. You will learn how to describe a camping trip, talk about what you did with friends, talk about nature, and use regular and irregular verbs in the preterite talk about family vacations; discuss activities, skills, and abilities; describe a place and its climate; how and when to use the imperfect tense (preterite vs. imperfect) describe volunteer activities; organize people to do a project; persuade or influence others; use tú commands, use usted and nosotros commands, and make polite requests make requests and recommendations, express opinions, talk about media and the community, use pronouns with commands, use impersonal expressions + infinitive, use impersonal expressions with se discuss the impact of technology, express environmental concerns and possibilities, make predictions and discuss causes and effects, use the future tense, use por and para describe people, tell others what to do, express wishes and desires, use the subjunctive with ojalá and verbs of hope, use the subjunctive with verbs of influence, use suffixes describe people and things; express doubt, denial, and disbelief express positive and negative emotions, use the subjunctive with doubt, use the subjunctive with emotion Required Materials and Technology Avancemos! Level 3 (Tres) eedition DVD-ROM, ISBN13: Ability to download and listen to audio files (MP3, ipod, or computer with speakers or headphones) Ability to record yourself using your computer (you ll need a computer with sound card, microphone, headphones or speakers, sound recording software). Read Creating Spoken Audio Files on Your Computer for details. Internet access to use ClassZone.com Adobe Reader to download PDFs (free download at Adobe.com) 2

3 Adobe Flash Player to view animations (free download at Adobe.com) QuickTime to view videos (free download at Apple.com) To Install the Avancemos! Level 3 DVD-ROM 1. Make sure you have an Internet connection. Note: The DVD-ROM may automatically bring up Internet Explorer or whichever browser you have set as your default. 2. Install the Flash plug-in to view the videos, if it s not already on your computer. Download the free Adobe Flash Player at Adobe.com. 3. Follow the instructions provided with the DVD-ROM to start it. 4. At the login screen, create an account. Choose a username and password. 5. Choose a file name and location if you d like to make notes in or highlight the DVD- ROM textbook. Example: In My Documents, create a folder called Spanish 31S and a file called Textbook Notes. To Access Audios, Videos, Animations, and Online Help Click the video, audio, and animation icons on the pages of the textbook. The audio will play automatically. You may need to download the.mov file and find a program to view it, such as QuickTime. The animation icon takes you to ClassZone.com. Suggestions for Using ClassZone.com Explore all the features of ClassZone.com. It s a pretty cool site, for a textbook. Check Tutor for games and practice. Can you move up the levels of practice, from beginner to challenge? Try the asteroid Collision Course games, the Word Factory games, or the crossword puzzles. Use the online flashcards to improve your Spanish vocabulary. (But you should also make your own flashcards that you can carry around with you. You can never have too many flashcards!) Take the self-test quizzes to practice for the midterm and final exams. Want to know more about culture? Watch the videos at Cultura interactiva. How fast can you conjugate a verb correctly? Use Conjuguemos! to find out. How to Complete the Lessons For each lesson in this course: 1. Read the lesson s objectives. They tell you what you ll learn in the lesson. 2. Note the page numbers for the reading assignment. They tell you which pages will be covered in the lesson. You are responsible for all the material in these pages. 3. Do the activities and exercises in the order in which they are presented in Study Session Do the same for Study Session 2, 3, and so on. (Usually there are six study sessions in a lesson.) 3

4 5. When you have finished working through the study sessions, complete the written assignment and speaking assignment. You can access the assignments through the link on the course syllabus, or by clicking on Assignments in the Oncourse menu. 6. When completing your assignments, you will want to be sure to include correct accents and other special characters. To learn how to type these into your work, go to the Help Portal page Creating Special Characters for Foreign Languages. Completing Speaking Assignments To complete your speaking assignments, you ll need to create audio files on a computer and submit them for grading. Read the instructions for Creating Spoken Audio Files on Your Computer found at the SCS Help Portal. Some Important Words of Advice It s very important that you do all activities and exercises. A very common mistake is to skip the lesson and all, or part, of the exercises and activities and go directly to the assignments to be turned in for a grade. Assignments done this way (without sufficiently completing lesson exercises and activities) are usually returned to the student as incomplete, returned needing parts re-done, or returned with very poor grades. There is a reason for doing all of the exercises and activities in the lesson before attempting to do the assignments to be graded. These exercises and activities are how the material is learned, how you will learn Spanish. There is no way around it. If you want to learn Spanish, you need lots of different kinds of practice with a language to learn it. You can t cram a language; it takes time and practice. Fortunately, this course has a wide variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises to give you the best possible chance of learning Spanish. The video and audio portions are very important in making this a real-life language for you to use, experience, and grow with. Language is communication, and communication requires time, practice, and effective strategies to learn how to do it. This course has very effective strategies for learning Spanish, and you will learn a great deal of Spanish from this course, but only if you do all of the exercises, activities, and follow the suggestions. If you skip the exercises and activities, and attempt to turn in the assignments without practice, you will do very poorly and possibly fail the course. Grading Your lesson grades (i.e., your grades on the written and speaking assignments for lessons 1 4 and 6 9) are worth 40 percent of your final course grade. Your exam grades are worth the other 60%. Lesson 1 Lesson 2 4

5 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson points Midterm Exam 100 points Final Exam Written and Speaking Assignments Midterm Exam Final Exam 800 points total 100 points 100 points I will take the total lesson points divided by 8 lessons, times.4, plus the total exam points divided by 2 exams, times.6 to calculate your final course grade. Grades will be determined using the following scale: Percent Letter Grade A A A B B B C C C D D D 59 and below F Important: To be in compliance with the Independent Study Program s academic policies, your exam grades must average at least a D minus in order for you to pass the course. Even if your assignment grades are excellent, you will not pass the course unless you fulfill this requirement. 5

6 Lesson Outline Introduction Lesson 1: Lesson 2: Lesson 3: Lesson 4: Lesson 5: Lesson 6: Lesson 7: Lesson 8: Lesson 9: Vamos a acampar Vamos a la playa! Todo para uno y uno para todos! Cómo nos organizamos? Midterm Exam Tips Cómo será el futuro? Por un futuro mejor Quién te inspira? Quiénes son los héroes? Lesson 10: Final Exam Tips 6