Students will learn to pronounce different consonants in Spanish. They will understand the various pronunciation rules of some consonants, as well as compare the letters between English and Spanish.

Students will learn pronunciation of the Spanish letters ll, q, r, rr, t, y, & z.

They will be assessed on pronunciation of vowels and consonants which differ greatly from English.

Review your vowel and consonant sounds while you take this quiz!

Students will learn:

• Numbers 1-20 in Spanish
• How to identify and pronounce dipthongs

They will practice:

• pronunciation
• listening comprehension
• identifying numbers

Students will be assessed on numbers 1-20, as well as dipthongs.

20 minutes are provided for this quiz.

Students will learn:

• How to ask for prepaid phone minutes in Spanish
• How to talk about data plans versus phone plans
• Review tens, hundreds, and express 8 digit phone numbers

Students will learn:

• the 21 most frequent verbs and verbal phrases in Spanish

They will practice:

• pronunciation
• listening comprehension
• arranging short sentences

Students will practice writing and speaking numbers and number sentences.

Students will be introduced to vocabulary for days of the week and months of the year.

They will be able to write dates in Spanish in the correct order, understand them, and speak them.

In this lesson you will learn a variety of ways to greet someone in Spanish. The lesson includes important information about formal and informal greetings, as well as the appropriate times of day in which to use each greeting. Several fun greetings are included to be used with your peers.

You will gain practice speaking as well, so as you listen to audio, it is a great idea to replicate what you hear because your speech will be tested at the end of the lesson.

Students will learn various responses for expressing how they are doing and their state of being. They will be able to respond correctly to different types of greetings using the first person singular form. They will learn about the concept of gender in language and how it is reflected with some mood adjectives.

In this lesson you will learn a variety of ways to say goodbye. These phrases of departure vary depending on the situation.

This lesson concentrates on practice and putting all you have learned this week together! Please continue studying and memorizing vocabulary, application of the formal versus informal usted and tú forms and their accompanying phrases, as well as general fluency and pronunciation.

You will be given 25 minutes to finish the quiz.

You will be assessed on:

• Basic weather words
• Verbs used with weather words (noun versus adjective descriptors)
• Some moods with estar

In this lesson you will learn important vocabulary for ordering in a restaurant. You´ll begin building sentences for obtaining goods and services and practice listening and speaking.

Students will learn:

• How to ask for prepaid phone minutes in Spanish
• How to talk about data plans versus phone plans
• Review tens, hundreds, and express 8 digit phone numbers

Students will practice:

• Restaurant vocabulary for ordering food
• Sentence building
• Listening to native conversations
• Identifying the missing words

This quiz tests Restaurant Vocabulary for placing orders, including food and drink featured on the menu from Lecture 2.

This lesson requires listening and speaking practice. Students will be able to speak the sentences and check their pronunciation and understanding in real time. Retaking or retrying to earn more points is allowed as many times as you like.

In this lesson:

• Vocabulary: types of plates and glasses
• directional words: a la derecha, a la izquierda, arriba de, debajo de, entre, sobre, etc.
• Impersonal expressions with se + 3rd person verbs

Students will:

1. learn words for setting the table
2. more useful expressions with se
3. reinforce words of orientation
4. practice listening comprehension of entire sentences

They will practice:

• pronunciation
• listening comprehension
• arranging short sentences

In this lesson you will practice all the vocabulary words for the past 2 weeks, including En el Restaurante, ¿Dónde se pone? and En el Gabinete and Al Poner la Mesa. You will practice giving instructions for setting the table, practice pronunciation, and process language to create meaningful sentences. You will practice requesting each item.

Students can prepare for this quiz by studying:

• the impersonal se and phrases with se (from this section)
• types of plates and glassware
• orientation words: a la izquierda, a la derecha, arriba de, debajo de, entre, a lado de
• Ways to request something more in a restaurant and reinforce vocabulary set I for ordering

Students will Review numbers (again!)Learn to explain bills Talk about mistakes with numbers and billingLearn to say ´excuse me´ in Spanish

Students will

• Review numbers (again!)
• Learn to explain bills
• Talk about mistakes with numbers and billing
• Learn to say ´excuse me´ in Spanish

This quiz serves as a review to reinforce the vocabulary and concepts in this section.

Students will learn vocabulary and phrases for negotiation. They will also learn a few cultural notes to improve their success in negotiating in the market.

In this lesson:

1.) Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles

2.) Words referring to people

3.) Marking adjectives for number and gender

Students will learn article and noun correspondence, as well as adjective and noun correspondence. They will practice creating full sentences with correct gender and number correspondence.

Students will learn about using definite articles before certain classes of words.

• days of the week
• school subjects
• languages
• world religions
• government institutions and bodies of knowledge

Students will learn several more noun endings, review the concept of gender, and the application of the definite and indefinite articles.

They will be able to identify feminine nouns ending in -dad and -ión, and apply appropriate definite and indefinite artciles.

They will also review the application of the masculine definite articles.

Students will learn some outliers (words with Greek roots ending in -ma, -pa, -ta) and be able to apply correct articles.

Students will be able to recognize common shortened words, (el colegio-->el colé; la manografía-->la mano), recognize the correct gender, and apply correct definite and indefinite articles.

Students will learn several special noun endings and learn how to identify the gender of these special nouns.

Students will learn how to talk about groups of mixed gender

Students will summarize the rules of gender and number

Students will answer questions and build sentences with singular and plural subjects.

Students will learn to make 3rd person verb forms plural.

In this lesson, you will concentrate on answering the questions ¿Quién es?, ¿Cómo es?, and ¿De dónde es? You will be able to use physical and personality descriptors to create sentences.

• Students will learn that nouns and adjectives must correspond in number, and in gender.
• Students will learn to use the correct articles.
• They will learn how to change adjectives and nouns, make them plural and use the correct articles.
• Students will learn to identify adjectives marked for gender, and those which are NOT marked for gender.

In this lesson students will learn to express where they are from, physical and personality characteristics, likes and dislikes.

They will learn several questions for asking others about themselves in an interview-like setting.

They will also learn to describe and introduce a friend or an acquaintance with the verbs tener, ser, and vivir.

Students will learn about several cultural influences and historical factors that influenced the emergence of modern day Spanish.

This lessons teaches students to systematically blend sentences and find connected speech between words. The focus is pronunciation and comprehension.

Students will learn to syllabify words and re-syllabify (la resignificación de oraciones)

Students will learn about spoken and written accents in Spanish. They will be able to pronounce the words and locate the emphasized syllables in Spanish words.

Students will be able to use the Spanish keyboard to add accents to vowels and write the letter ñ.

Students will be assessed on the basic grammar points of the first semester of this course.