Spa 1101
Guide for the Midterm

  1. Accents and Punctuation: Do you remember how to divide a word into its basic syllables? Where does the natural accent fall in Spanish?  Why are the "sticky" vowels so important?  (Review)
  2. Introduction and Simple Conversation: Can you write a simple dialogue between two people in both a formal and informal situations? How many questions and answers can you include? What types of questions have you learned? Can you introduce your friend to someone else (“te/le present a”)?
  3. Survival Phrases: How many basic survival expressions like “¿Cómo se dice ‘slowly’ en español?” have we learned?  How many classroom commands do we know?
  4. Numbers: Can you count and spell the numbers between 0 and 199? How would you tell someone your phone number in Spanish?  When listing your name in a phonebook in a Spanish speaking country would you include both of your parents (paternal and maternal) last names?  Which of your parents’ last names comes first?  Which last names does a child inherit in the Spanish speaking world? 
  5. Days, Seasons, and Months: Can you name and spell each day of the week, each month of the year, and all the four seasons? Do the seasons in relation to months change in South America? How so?  Could you determine which season it is in, for instance, Chile during the month of May?  Are any of the days, months, or seasons capitalized in Spanish?
  6. Agreement: Why is noun-adjective and article-noun agreement so important in Spanish? What rules will help us determine the correct use of an article or an adjective? Are certain nouns always feminine or masculine? What is the difference between a definite and indefinite adjective? How many adjectives have we studied so far (p. 19, p. 41)? Are colors and nationalities used as adjectives too? What is the difference between saying “Ella es de México” and “Ella es mexicana."?
  7. Time: How do we tell time in Spanish? How do you express “AM” and “PM”? What type of time expression is typically used in an airport? What British customs for expressing time are similar to those in Spanish? How do you say “midday”, “midnight”, “half past”, “quarter till”, and “rush hour” in Spanish? What is the difference between “a las seis” and “son las seis”?
  8. Question words: How many questions words have we learned (p. 50)? What is the question word for "do" in Spanish? Can you create a question with each word?
  9. Verbs: Do you know all of the subject pronouns in Spanish? Can you conjugate the verb SER and ESTAR using these pronouns? Can you write simple “do” questions in Spanish? Are you able to answer a question in the following ways: yes, no-reaffirm-no, no-correction? Can you identify the subject in a question?  How many AR verbs have we learned?
  10. Vocabulary: Have you studied all the greetings and farewells, titles, and colors (p. 19) in this Chapter?  How many colors have we learned?  Can you identify the objects in the classroom that we studied using the LOCI method?   How many types of nationality suffixes are there?