SPA 1101-F08

Guide for Final Exam

  1. Conversation and General Basics: Can you write a dialogue between two people in both a formal and informal situations? How many questions and answers can you include? What types of question words have you learned?   How do you express the “do you” question in Spanish?
  2. The Alphabet and Pronunciation: Can you recognize and pronounce each letter of the alphabet in Spanish? Do you remember how to divide a word into its basic syllables? Where does the natural accent fall in Spanish? Do you remember the special rules of pronunciation for letters like "g", "c", "j", "ll", "rr", or "y"?
  3. Survival Phrases and Questions: How many survival questions or commands have we learned to use in the classroom?
  4. Vocabulary: Have you been studying your vocabulary over time in quick exposures (10-15 min per day, twice a day)? Have you studied all your vocabulary in each of the chapters we have studied?
    1. Greetings and farewells
    2. Classroom items and people
    3. Descriptive adjectives
    4. Nationalities
    5. Academic subjects and buildings
    6. Family members
  5. Numbers: Can you count and spell the numbers between 0 and 199.999.999? What are the agreement rules for numbers used as adjectives? How many irregularly spelled numbers are there? How would you tell someone your phone number in Spanish? 
  6. Time: How do you tell time in Spanish?  Which special numbers used in telling time?  What is the difference between “a las” and “son las”?
  7. 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? What are they?
  8. Possession: Do you know how to use the possessive adjectives (su, tu, mis, etc.)? When do they need to agree in number and in gender?
  9. 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?
  10. Direct Object Pronouns:  How do you distinguish between a subject pronoun and an object pronoun?  What questions do you ask to identify the direct object in a sentence?  Where do you place the direct object pronoun in a sentence in Spanish?  What are the direct object pronouns in Spanish?  What choice do you have to make in placing a direct object pronoun in a compound sentence?
  11. Verbs: What does "hay" mean in Spanish?  What are the subject pronouns in Spanish? What are the forms of the verb "ser"? What are the forms of “estar” and “ser”? When do you use “estar” versus “ser”? Have you studied all your AR, ER, and IR verbs? Have you been drilling your verbs with verb cards?  Can you create and answer questions using your verbs? Where does the subject pronoun go in a question versus an answer? When do you need to use the double “no” in your answer? How do we use the sentence structure "me gusta/n"? What should you know about the indirect object pronouns “le” and “les”? How do you use the verbs “necesitar”, “tener”, “ir”, and “hacer” in a simple dialogue? What do you need to know about compound verbs?  Have you studied all of the idiomatic expressions created with the verb “tener” (tener que, tener sed, etc.)?  How many stem-changing verbs have we learned?  When do the stems change?  Have you studied the conjugations of “poner”, “salir”, and “traer”?