Spa 1102

Guide for the Midterm

  1. Do you remember a few of the secrets to learning Spanish? ( Review)
  2. What are the rules for dividing a word into syllables? How do you find the naturally accented syllable of a word? (Review)
  3. Can you remember all of the question words and also use them to answer or generate questions? (Review)
  4. Have you studied all the vocabulary from Spa 1101 that we have reviewed (tener idiomatic expressions, family members, personality and physical characteristics, question words, colors, clothing, days of the week, house/furniture, prepositions of time/sequence)?
  5. Did you review the use of demonstrative adjectives? How can a demonstrative adjective turn into a demonstrative pronoun?  What is the difference between “ese” and “eso”?
  6. How many –AR ,-IR, ER verbs do you know? Have you studied them as vocabulary and also in all of their “conjugations”? (Review 0 , 0.5 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ,)  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?
  7. 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?
  8. Have you learned all the "tener" idiomatic expressions? (Review)
  9. Have you studied all of your GO verbs?  Which GO verb in the book really doesn’t have a GO form?
  10. What happens to sentence structure when we use “backwards verbs” like gustar?  How many indirect object pronouns can you use with these verbs? (Review)
  11. Are you placing and forming your adjectives correctly (number and gender agreement)? (Review)
  12. Can you show possession using the Spanish equivalent of an apostrophe “s” and also using an equivalent possessive adjective?
  13. Do you remember what happens to "a" and "de" when they are next to "el"?
  14. Can you explain the differences between houses and living spaces in Latin America as opposed to those in the US?  What does “hogar” or “piso” mean?  How does the traditional concept of “patio” in Latin America differ from our concept of “patio”?  Could you describe your house as the “home” you live in?