SPA 1102: Study Guide for Midterm

Pronunciation & Accents What are the rules for dividing a word into syllables? How do you find the naturally accented syllable of a word?
Cognates & Categories What are cognates and how are they important to you? Are you able to classify items according to these categories (nación, persona, lugar, casa, concepto, animal, comida, deporte, instrumento)? Can you think of a couple of common cognates?
Expression Can you remember all of the question words and also use them to answer or generate questions? Do you remember all of the survival questions and when to use one versus the other? Are you able to generate more than a couple of questions? How many? If you were asked to generate a simple conversation, how far could you go?
The little things. Are you placing and forming your adjectives correctly? 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"?
Vocabulary Have you studied all your vocabulary (Classroom Vocabulary34, categories, numbers 107, colors 105, clothing 103, family 66, personality 69&83, weekdays 133, house 133, weather, seasons, months160, descriptions (172), prepositions of place 164,?
Time & Numbers Can you tell time? When do you use “son las” as opposed to “a las”? Do you remember how express A.M and P.M in Spanish? How well can you solve math problems? Is your spelling good when it comes to numbers (1-1000+)? What happens to numbers when you use them like adjectives (example, 101 shirts)?
Demonstrative Adjectives How do you use demonstrative adjectives and pronouns? Could you do an exercise like the one on page 113?
Prepositions How many prepositions have we learned that determine relationships of time/sequence (149) or even space (164)? What happens when we use some of these prepositions with verbs? (134)
Verbs How many –AR ,-IR, ER verbs do you know (86)? Have you studied them as vocabulary and also in all of their “conjugations”? Have you studied your stem-changing verbs (114, 139-40)? Have you learned all the "tener" idiomatic expressions? Can you create sentences using the "tener +que" and "ir + a" structures? When do you use "ser" versus "estar" (171)? How many "go" and stem-changing verbs are there? How do you use the prespositions "antes de", "después de", and "hasta" with infinitive verbs?  How do you form and use the progressive tense (166)?  What were the irregular progressive tense verbs?  What are reflexive verbs and how many of them are there 143-4?