SPN 102 First Year Spanish, Term 2

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Introduces the Spanish language (including listening, speaking, reading and writing) and Hispanic culture (including geography, customs, daily life, heritage and literature), facilitated by the study of vocabulary, grammar, short readings and guided conversation. Instructor and students use Spanish as the primary language of the class.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher); or completion of WR 090 (or concurrent enrollment), or WR 115 (or higher); or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Recommended: SPN 101, or one year of high school Spanish. (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond to spoken words and phrases.
Interpret main ideas and details from spoken questions and statements supported by context and redundancy.
Pronounce phrases and sentences understandably.
Speak phrases, sentences, and questions to express ideas and some details.
Interpret main ideas and some details from simple written narratives.
Interpret main ideas of short authentic materials such as notes, schedules and menus.
Transcribe dictated phrases and sentences.
Compose short written messages, notes and simple guided paragraphs.
Explain and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues in limited situations.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, and artistic heritage and cultural practices of the target culture.

Content Outline
Consists of the material in En Familia, Chapters 5 through 8 as follows, in addition to any material provided by the instructor:

Pastimes
- Lesson 5.1
  - Months of the year
  - The date
- Holidays
- Lesson 5.2
  - Places
  - The verb ‘to go’
  - Birthdays and saint’s days
- Lesson 5.3
  - Sports and pastimes
  - The verb ‘to be pleasing’
  - Sports
- Lesson 5.4
  - (IE) and (UE) verbs
  - The (IE) conjugation and the use of the infinitive
  - The evening stroll
- Lesson 5.5
  - Weather
  - The (UE) conjugation and inanimate subjects
  - Climate
- Lesson 5.6
  - Numbers higher than 100
  - The personal a and use of large numbers
  - Writing large numbers
- Lesson 5.7
  - (I) verbs and sports-related words
  - The (I) conjugation and ‘how long since’
  - Music and dance
What Are You Going To Wear?
- Lesson 6.1
  - The body
  - The two verbs ‘to know’
  - Gestures I
- Lesson 6.2
  - The face and irregular verbs
  - Irregular conjugations
  - Gestures II
- Lesson 6.3
  - Clothing
  - Demonstratives and the verb ‘to wear’
  - Dressing customs and traditional clothing
- Lesson 6.4
  - Daily routine verbs
  - Reflexive construction
  - Conversations
- Lesson 6.5
  - Change of state verbs and shopping
  - Uses of reflexive verbs
  - Shopping
- Lesson 6.6
  - Hair and personal care products
  - Near future and recent past
  - Carnival
  - Let’s Eat!
- Lesson 7.1
  - Food categories
  - Present progressive
  - Meals and mealtimes
- Lesson 7.2
  - Basic foods
  - Direct object pronouns for things
  - Regional foods
- Lesson 7.3
  - Drinks and desserts
  - Direct object pronouns for people
  - Hot drinks
- Lesson 7.4
  - The table
  - Direct object pronouns with infinitives
  - Dining customs
- Lesson 7.5
  - Restaurant and condiments
  - Limiting adjectives
  - Dining in restaurants
- Lesson 7.6
  - Fruits and vegetables
  - Passive and impersonal se
  - Cold drinks
Our Home
- Lesson 8.1
  - Rooms of the house
  - Verbs ‘to give’ and ‘to say’
  - Housing
- Lesson 8.2
  - Furniture and bathroom
  - Indirect object pronouns
  - Praise, thanks and hospitality
- Lesson 8.3
  - Outside the home
  - Uses of the verb ‘to be pleasing’ and other verbs that take the indirect object pronoun
  - Common abbreviations
- Lesson 8.4
  - Kitchen
  - Double object pronouns
  - Kitchen customs and maids
- Lesson 8.5
  - More characteristics
  - Regular comparatives
  - Regional dialects
- Lesson 8.6
  - Home accessories
  - Regular superlatives
  - Lexical variation
- Lesson 8.7
  - Domestic chores
  - Irregular comparatives and superlatives
  - Fallas festival of Valencia