we have 2h to finish the questions
In order to demonstrate the following language skills,
- Introducing ourselves and others.
- Asking & answering questions
3– 4. Expressing present events & planning events.
- Expressing ideas regarding
- chronological time (la hora & numbers),
- days of the week, months & weather conditions (ex. lunes, martes…/ enero, febrero…, 5 de Mayo, 4 de Julio…, etc.)/ Hace frio./ Está lloviendo.
- and to school life, the family, pastimes, vacations & shopping.
…we access the following content,
- Greetings & farewells, verbs llamarse & SER + Adjectives (or qualifiers)
- Very very important: Subject & Verb agreement: Ex. Yo me llamo…/ yo soy, but, ella es…
Gender & Number agreement: Ex. La casa (es) blanca.
- Yes/No questions & with question words: I. Ex. ¿Eres estudiante? – Sí, soy estudiante.
– No, no soy estudiante.
II. Ex. ¿Qué estudias? – Estudio español y francés.
- -AR/ -ER & -IR verbs:
Regular Verbs- Ex. I. hablAR (hablo, hablAs, hablAmos, …)
II. comER (comEs, comE, comEn)
III. vivIR (vivo, vives,… , but, vivImos)
& Irregular Verbs a. SER (soy, eres, …, somos…)
b. tEnEr (tengo, tIEnEs, …, tenEmos…)
c. pOdEr (pUEdo, pUEdEs, pOdemos) & others
d. quErer (quiero, quieres, queremos) & others
e. pEdir (pIdo, pIdEs, …, pEdImos…) & others
f. IR + a + Inf. (-R form): Ex. Voy a estudiaR/ Vamos a saliR,,,)
g. SABER & CONOCER (sé. sabes… & conZCo, conoces…
h. & others.
- Gramatical Tense: (Single) Present Tense: Ex. Yo estudio español en SCC.
Present Progressive: Ex. Yo estoy estudiando español este semestre.
(A Future form)> IR + a + [-R]: Ex. Voy a estudiAR español en el verano.
- Determinants: I. Definite Articles (ex. el , la…+ Noun)
II. Indefinite Articles (ex. un, una…+ Noun)
III. Possessive Adjectives (ex. mi…, mis…/ tu…, tus…/ su…, sus…, nuestro…, nuestra…, … + Noun)
IV. Demonstrative Adjectives (ex. este…, esta…, estos…, estas… + Noun) & Demonstrative Pronouns
(*Noun: If you can add THE in front of a single word, we are in front of a noun. This is a ‘very’ simple ‘nongrammatical’ way to recognize it, though.
Ex. house, girl, nice, textbook, hot> the house, the girl, the textbook = Nouns.
The nice* and the hot* are not possible. They are NOT Nouns but Adjectives ( or Noun qualifiers)
& Vocabulary from Lesson 1 to Lesson 6 (Contextos, in context, & Vocabulary page, listed at the end of every Lesson, as a summary of the active vocabulary lesson).
(*active = required vocabulary)