Spa 1101

Study Guide for Midterm*

*Items in red reflect areas studied after the first quiz.

  1. Do you remember a few of the secrets to learning Spanish? ( Review)
  2. Can you break words into syllables and find the natural accent? (Review)
  3. What are the most important oral survival questions at this point in your quest to learn Spanish? (Review)
  4. Can you spell out the sounds of the Spanish alphabet? (Review)
  5. Which consonant-vowel combinations have special sounds? (Review)
  6. Why are the "sticky" vowels so important?             
  7. Can you explain when and why you would use "tú" versus "usted" ?
  8. Have you been studying your vocabulary over time in quick exposures (10-15 min per day, twice a day)?  The main thematic areas include: numbers 1-30 (Review), school subjects, classroom objects, question words, verbs as vocabulary, places, people, languages, adverbs of frequency, conjunctions [and, but, or], prepositions [to, from, on, of, at].
  9. Can you count and spell the numbers 1 through 30? Can you tell time in Spanish? (Review)  What is the difference between “es a las seis” and “son las seis”?
  10. How many pairs of basic conversation question-answer combinations can you come up with in Spanish? (Review)
  11. How many greetings and expressions of courtesy have we learned? (Review 1,2)
  12. How do yow introduce yourself or a friend to someone else?
  13. How do we use the sentence structure "me gusta" or the sentence structure "¿A qué hora …?"
  14. What have you learned about cognates? (Review)
  15. What are the subject pronouns in Spanish?
  16. Have you studied all you verbs?  What are the forms of the verb "ser"?(Review) What are the forms of “estar”? (Review)  How many AR verbs have we learned? (Review) 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?
  17. How could we characterize the Spanish speaking communities living in the U.S.? (Review 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 )
  18. What does "hay" mean in Spanish?