Spa 1101
Guide for Quiz 1
- Accents and Punctuation: Do you remember how to divide a word into its basic
syllables? Where does the natural accent fall in Spanish? Why are
the "sticky" vowels so important? (Review)
- Introduction and Simple Conversation:
Can you write a simple dialogue between two people in both a formal and
informal situations? How many questions and answers can you include? What
types of questions have you learned? Can you introduce your friend to
someone else?
- Numbers: Can you count and
spell the numbers between 0 and 199? How would you tell someone your phone
number in Spanish? When listing your name in a phonebook in a
Spanish speaking country would you include both of your parents (paternal
and maternal) last names Which of your parents’ last names comes
first? Which last names does a child inherit in the Spanish speaking
world?
- 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? How so? Could you determine which
season it is in, for instance, Chile during the month of May? Are
any of the days, months, or seasons capitalized in Spanish?
- 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?
- Vocabulary: Have you studied all the greetings and
farewells, titles, and colors (p. 19) in this Chapter? Can you identify
the objects in the classroom that we studied using the LOCI method? Have
you studied the survival commands that we learned using the acrostic Las
Vegas Race?
- Verbs: Can you match the subject pronouns in
Spanish with the present tense conjugations of SER?