SPAN& 121: Spanish I

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Class Program

Spanish

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091379

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities

Description

Elementary grammar, writing and comprehension of the Spanish language. Instruction partly in Spanish. Background in English grammatical terminology is recommended.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Read, write, listen, and speak in simple Spanish sentences using the present tense, the periphrastic future, and the most common verbs.

Communicate in situations involving common greetings and descriptions of people, places situations, and weather.

Correctly use the verbs tener, estar, and ser, possessive adjectives and the personal a.

Extract contextual information from both readings and video presentations and respond in Spanish to Spanish situational questions within the grammatical limits of the material.

Core Topics

Pronunciation exercises. Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99. Everyday expressions, greetings, etc. Days of the week. Telling time. Expressing dates. Classroom vocabulary. Colors. Singular and plural. Articles. Uses of hay. Commenting on the weather.
Subject pronouns. Present tense of regular verbs.
Irregular feminine and masculine nouns. Use of articles and adjectives. Negative and interrogative sentences. Present indicative of ser and estar. The periphrastic future (ir + a + inf.).
Possession with de. Possessive adjectives. Likes and dislikes. Gustar.
Present indicative of irregular verbs. Cardinal numbers from 100 to 2.000.000. Saber vs. conocer.
Comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Ordinal numbers. Months of the year. Stem-changing verbs.