Preliminary Chapter

• basic phrases

• Spanish alphabet

• numbers 0-100

• weather

• calendar

• expressing the date in Spanish

• tú vs usted

• día de los muertos

Ch 1: Personal Identification

• subject pronouns

• subject pronoun replacement

• physical traits

• the verb ser

• the verb tener

• adjective agreement

• Spanish speaking countries

  • • nationalities

    • regions/locations

    • tourist hotspots

    • new year's eve traditions

    • la lotería

Ch 2: Family

• family members + pets

• family relationships

• possessive adjectives

• definite + indefinite articles

• 's rule

• -ar verbs

• conjugation v infinitive

Ch 3: School

• people + places in school

• school subjects

• school supplies + classroom objects

• adjectives

• school related verbs

• conjugating -ar/-er/-ir verbs

• identifying gender/number of nouns

• changing nouns singular --> plural

Ch 4: Food

• food vocabulary

• -er + -ir verb conjugations

• gustar

• cultural latin/Spanish foods

Ch 5: Sports

• stem changing verbs

• 2 verb rule

• sports vocabulary

Preliminary Chapter

• review

• telling time

• big numbers (100s-1000s)

• intro questions

• ir + weather

• día de los muertos

Ch 6: All About Me

• personality traits

• ser + tener

• question/answer patterns

• hobbies/pastimes

• gustar, interesar, encantar + vlg construction

• forming detailed/compound sentences

Ch 7: House + Home

• house related vocabulary

• chores

• outdoor items

• areas of the house

• frequency terms

• irregular yo verbs

• tener + que

• floor levels

Ch 8: Health

• body parts

• parts of the face

• illnesses

• medical professionals + places

• daily routine

• stem changing verbs: recomendar, preferir, doler, deber

• 2 verb rule

• reflexive verbs

• sequence terms

Ch 9: Restaurant

• food groups + beverages

• restaurant conversation

• table settings

• food descriptions/problems

• restaurant related verbs/terms

• servir, pedir, probar

• demonstrative adjectives

• cultural latin/Spanish foods

Ch 10: Community

• stores, places, transportation in the community

• traffic related terms

• estar + prepositions

• se puede

• ir + a + place

• ir + a + infinitive

• contractions (al, del)

Ch 11: Shopping

• clothing vocabulary

• fabrics, designs, styles of clothing

• prices/sale terms

• clothing store conversation

• areas + people in a store

• comparatives of equality/inequality

• costar

Ch 12: Vacation

• types of places to visit

• activities on vacation

• popular Latin American/Spanish tourist hot spots

• present progressive

• review of verbs like gustar

The Basics

• Final exam is taken in 3 different parts

  • Speaking

  • Writing

  • Listening, Reading, Grammar

• Final exam weighs as 2 EXAMS for 4th quarter

• Cumulative exam, covers topics throughout whole year

Components of Exam

• SPEAKING: 2 conversations with teacher (taken before finals week)

• WRITING: 1 essay written (taken before finals week)

• LISTENING: multiple choice (taken during finals week)

• READING: multiple choice (taken during finals week)

• GRAMMAR: multiple choice (taken during finals week)

The Basics

• FLACS exam is taken in 2 different parts

  • Speaking

  • Listening, Reading, Writing

• FLACS exam weighs as 2 EXAMS for 4th quarter

• Cumulative, covers topics from 7th + 8th grade

• Must pass FLACS exam AND course to advance to Spanish 2 in high school

Components of Exam

• SPEAKING: 3 conversations with teacher (taken before finals week)

• WRITING: 2 essays written (taken during finals week)

• LISTENING: multiple choice (taken during finals week)

• READING: multiple choice (taken during finals week)