Fall 2007
Spa 1102 - Study Guide for the Final Exam
Vocabulary	Colors, clothing, question words (1), family members (1,2,3), physical attributes and general character traits [64], descriptive adjectives (2) [69], tener idioms,  days of the week(1), the house and furniture,  the various world nationalities [70], climate, months and seasons, special adjectives (172), prepositions of place and time (1), food and food dialogue, verbs as vocabulary, and general vocabulary at the end of each chapter.
Expression	What are the rules for dividing a word into syllables? How do you find the naturally accented syllable of a word? (Review) Are you able to generate more than a couple of simple conversation questions with our new vocabulary and verbs? If you were asked to generate a simple conversation, how far could you go? Are you able to create a simple dialogue that now includes vocabulary and expressions from Chapters 3-6? Have you forgotten any Survival sentences?
The Small Stuff	Do you remember a few of the secrets to learning Spanish? ( Review) Can you show possession using the Spanish equivalent of an apostrophe “s” and also using an equivalent possessive adjective? Do you remember what happens to "a" and "de" when they are next to "el"? Can you tell time? What about adjective agreement? When do you use “son las” as opposed to “a las”? Do you know why and when to use the personal “a”? Have you learned the noun-number agreement scheme well (1,2)?  Have you considered the special prepositions like “conmigo”, “contigo” [162] or the adjectives that frequently are used with the verbs ser and estar [172]? Do you know how to construct indefinite and negative sentences? When does the placement of the negative expression require an additional NO or negative before the verb?Have you studied the "mouse” and “cat” diagrams? How many prepositions of place are there? How many nationality suffixes (for example, estadounidense or mexicano) are there?
Grammar	Have you learned all the "tener" idiomatic expressions? Can you create sentences using the "tener +que", "ir + a" , "poder+", "querer +", etc. structures? When do we use the progressive verb tense (1)? How do you form it? How do you use the “gustar” verb in a question? What should you know about the indirect object pronouns “le” and “les”? (Review) When do we use demonstrative adjectives (1,2)? Which spatial relationships are implied by each type of demonstrative adjective? How does a demonstrative adjective become a demonstrative pronoun?  What is the difference between “ese” and “eso”? Extra practice? How many –AR ,-IR, ER verbs do you know (1)? Have you studied them as vocabulary and also in all of their “conjugations”? (Review 0 , 0.5 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ,) What are the forms of the verb IR? Have you studied all of your GO verbs? Which GO verb in the book really doesn’t have a GO form? How many stem-changing verbs are there (1,2)? What are reflexive verbs and how do you conjugate them (1, 2)? What is the difference between "saber" and "conocer" (1)? Do these verbs have any irregular forms? When do you use "ser" vs. "estar" (1)? Are you able to construct comparison sentences (1)? What are the irregular comparison words? What are “transitive verbs” and how do they limit when you can use a “direct object pronoun”? When and why do we use “direct object pronouns”? What are the “direct object pronouns” in Spanish and where do we place them? Which questions can we use so as not to mistake which object in a sentence is the direct object versus an indirect object pronoun? Can you create a formal command for UD or UDS? Where do you place pronouns in positive commands versus negative commands?