SPA 1102

Study Guide for Quiz 2

  1. Have you been using and reinforcing the rules for breaking words into syllables and the rules for determining the location of the natural accent in Spanish?
  2. 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?
  3. Do you have your question words memorized?  Are you able to generate a number of life-functional questions for each verb we have learned?
  4. Have you forgotten any Survival sentences?
  5. Have you been continually studying the vocabulary for Chapter 5?  For instance, 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].
  6. 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?  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?  Remember, a reflexive verb uses a reflexive pronoun which must be placed correctly.  Have you reviewed the reflexive verbs you frequently use to describe your daily routine?  Can the present participle be used with other verbs than “estar”?  When it is used this way, what does it express?
  7. 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?
  8. Have you studied your adjectives of nationality?
  9. 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?   
  10. Have you taken the second-to-last semester’s Quiz 2 review (here)?