Spa 1102-S08
Guía para el
Examen Final
1. Question Words: How
many questions words have we learned? Could you guess which question word is
missing from a question? What common questions do use to help resolve
information gaps in a conversation (survival questions)?
2. Verbs: Have you made verb cards and
been practicing the conjugation and pronunciation of all the Spa 1101 verbs?
How many stem changing verbs are in this collection of verbs? How many
irregular verbs are there (ir, ser, etc.)? Are you
able to conjugate a verb and then create a sentence or question with it? Why is
the "gustar" verb so special? What are
indirect object pronouns and how do you use them with the "gustar" verb? Have you studied all of the idiomatic
expressions you can create with the verb "tener"?
How many compound verb structures can you create? Have you drilled all of your
verbs using your verb cards frequently (15 minutes each day)? Have you tried
generating a question with each verb you conjugate? Could you write a small
paragraph using your new verbs? Have you studied all of your GO verbs? Which GO
verb in the book really doesn’t have a GO form? Have you studied your
stem-changing verbs? (Review 1,2) How many new stem
changing verbs have we learned? Have you included the stem changing reflexive
verbs? Can you describe your daily routine using all of the reflexive verbs?
When do verbs stem change? Can you use a reflexive verb without a reflexive
pronoun? Could you create a reflexive verb by adding a reflexive pronoun to a
normal verb? Why is the verb “llamarse” so important?
What happens to sentence structure when we use “backwards verbs” like gustar? How many indirect object pronouns can you use with
these verbs? How do you form the present progressive
tense? When does a native Speaker use it? How does his/her use of
the verb differ with our linguistic patterns in English? Are you able to
conjugate the verbs “ser” and “estar”? Are you
able to distinguish when to employ each in a conversation? How many
conventions of use have we learned for them?
Which two types of verbs create irregular present participle? Did
you forget that the present progressive is a compound verb structure, must
always be accompanied by the verb estar, and
establishes the same pronoun placement relationships as other compound verb
structures? Can the present participle be used with other verbs than “estar”? When it is
used this way, what does it express? What
two verbs mean “to know” in Spanish? How
do you distinguish between them? What
are their irregular conjugations?
3. Demonstrative Adjectives: Did
you review the use of demonstrative adjectives? What is their relationship to
the indicators of space (aquí, ahí,
allá)? Did you remember that they are adjectives and
must agree in number and gender with the noun they describe? What is the
difference between “ese” and “eso”?
How can a demonstrative adjective turn into a demonstrative pronoun?
4. Vocabulary: Do
you have your question words memorized? Have
you reviewed your clothing items? Are you able to name all of the family
relationships we have studied, including the in-laws? Have you studied enough
adjectives to describe your family members both in terms of physical appearance
as well as personality? Have you studied the tener
idiomatic expressions? Do you know all the colors? Have your reviewed the days
of the week? Can you name all the rooms of a house? How many pieces of
furniture do you know? What are the prepositions of time and sequence? Have you studied the vocabulary from Chp 5 (the days of the week, the months of the year, the seasons,
the different expressions of weather, the prepositions of place [162], the
special prepositions “conmigo”, “contigo”
[162], and the adjectives that frequently are used with the verbs ser and estar [172])? Have
you studied your adjectives
of nationality? How many different
types of food can you name/spell? Can
you create a food dialogue with them?
Have you studied a couple of key cuts of meat or descriptive adjectives
associated with food? How many negative
or indefinite words have we studied? With
which ones of these do you need to use the double-negative ?
5. Pronunciation: What
are the rules for dividing a word into syllables? How do you find the naturally
accented syllable of a word?
6. Miscellaneous: Do
you remember a few of the secrets to learning Spanish? Are you placing and
forming your adjectives correctly (number and gender agreement)? Have you been honing in your ability to
recognize and guess the meaning of cognates? How many false cognates have
we stumbled upon in this last chapter? 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 explain the differences between
houses and living spaces in Latin America as opposed to those in the
7. Comparisons: Are you able to construct
sentences that express equal and unequal comparisons? While we are using
comparatives, when must we be careful abut agreement? Which four comparatives
have irregular forms?
8. Direct Object Pronouns - 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?