Español III Honors                Sections: 4360- 02

Course description: This 3rd year course in Spanish Honors continues to develop oral skills to achieve greater fluency in the target language. Students are encouraged to perfect grammar and expand vocabulary through class participation, contemporary readings and written assignments. Chapters content allow the students to relate the study of Spanish to other disciplines. Chapters focus on different geographical areas and cultures.

There is a quiz after each Paso with a listening segment, and an exam after each chapter with a listening segment.

There will be a presentation for each quarter as part of your class participation grade.

A conversation segment will take place before Mid-Term and Final Exams.

Please bring the following materials to class:

Internet: Visit the Textbook Web site at http://go.hrw.com/gopages/wl-sp.html and enter the keyword for student resources correlated to each location and chapter, or type the word Spanish.

Source for the transparencies at the teacher's folder and Scope and Sequence list: Halt Rinehart Winston ¡Ven conmigo! Level 3

Scope and Sequence: Spanish Level 3

        Location: La Coruña

        Functions:

        1. Expressing interest, indiference, and displeasure

        2. Asking for information

        3. Describing yourself and others

        Grammar:

        1. Stem-changing verbs in the present tense

        2. The present tense

        3. The preterite

        4. y and o before vowels

        5. Adjectives

        6. saber vs. conocer.

        Literatura: Pablo Neruda y su poesía. Buscar información en http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Arc/9906/pablo.htm

        Location: La Coruña

        Functions:

        1. Asking for and giving advice

        2. Talking about taking care for yourself

        Grammar:

        1. Informal commands

        2. Irregular informal commands

        3. Reflexive verbs

        4. The imperfect

        Location: Caracas

        Functions:

        1. Talking about what has happened

        2. Expressing and supporting a point of view

        3. Using conversational fillers

        4. Talking about future events

        5. Talking about responsibilities

        Grammar:

        1. The present perfect

        2. lo que

        3. The future tense

        Location: Caracas

        Functions:

        1. Talking about food tastes

        2. Talking about unintentional events

        3. Asking for help and requesting favors

        Grammar:

        1. se with unintentional events

        2. por and para

        3. Double object pronouns

        Location: Guadalajara

        Functions:

        1. Expressing qualified agreement and disagreement

        2. Reporting what others say and think

        3. Talking about hopes and wishes

        Grammar:

        1. Impersonal se

        2. The subjunctive to express hopes and wishes

        3. Subjunctive of ir, ser, dar, estar

        Location: Guadalajara

        Functions:

        1. Introducing a changing a topic of conversation

        2. Expressing what needs to be done

        3. Expressing an opinion

        4. Making suggestions and recommendations

        5. Turning down an invitation

        Grammar:

        1. Gender of some words ending in -a and -o

        2. The subjunctive after expressions of need

        3. The subjunctive mood with recommendations

        4. nosotros commands

        Location: Buenos Aires

        Functions:

        1. Expressing happiness and unhappiness

        2. Comforting someone

        3. Making an apology

        4. Describing an ideal relationship

        Grammar:

        1. The subjunctive with expressions of feelings

        2. Reflexive verbs for reciprocal actions

        3. The present perfect subjunctive

        4. The subjunctive with the unknown or nonexistent

        5. The present subjuntive of saber

        Location: Buenos Aires

        Functions:

        1. Expressing doubt and disbelief

        2. Expressing certainty

        3. Expressing possibility and impossibility

        4. Expressing surprise

        Grammar:

        1. The subjunctive after expressions of doubt and disbelief

        2. por in fixed expressions

        3. The subjunctive after impersonal expressions

        Location: Nueva York

        Functions:

        1. Talking about your emotional reaction to something

        2. Expressing disagreement

        3. Expressing an assumption

        4. Making hypothetical statements

        Grammar:

        1. The preterite of estar, ponerse, saber

        2. The subjunctive with expressions of denial and disagreement

        3. The conditional

        Location: Nueva York

        Functions:

        1. Talking about accomplishments

        2. Talking about future plans

        3. Expressing cause and effect

        4. Expressing intention and purpose

        Grammar:

        1. Verbs after prepositions

        2. The subjunctive with para que

        3. The subjunctive with certain conjunctions