Español IV

Section: 4450- 01

Course description: This 4th year course in Spanish continues to develop all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Students are expected to refine their skills through class participation, contemporary readings and written assignments. Unit content allow the students to establish a comparison between cultures in the United States and the Spanish Speaking World and to relate the study of Spanish to other disciplines. This course is conducted primarily in the target language with the student playing a much more central role than in earlier levels. Students are expected to participate fully in all activities to improve their Spanish.

There will be a quiz after each theme or lesson with a listening segment, and an exam after each unit with a listening segment.

There will be a project/presentation for each lesson/unit as part of your class participation grade.

A conversation segment will take place before Mid-Term.

 

Please bring the following materials to class:

Your textbook comes equipped with an online tutorial and helpful website, which you should utilize often. The website is: http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/avancemos_4/book_home.htm?state=NJ 

Source for the Scope and Sequence list: McDougal Littell, 2007

Scope and Sequence: Spanish Level IV

        Vocabulary:

        1. Office equipment

        2. Insurance professions

        3. Job interview

        4. E-mail

        5. Talking and writing about work

 

       Grammar:

        1. Ser vs. estar

        2. Direct and indirect object pronouns used together

        3. Reflexive connstructions

        4. Ir a + infinitive

        5. Present progressive

        6. Saber vs. conocer.

        7. Por vs. para

       

       Literature: La señorita Julia (Ana Cortesi) y Solo (Nicanor Parra)

 

       Projects: A job interview.

                      A brochure about Paraguay or Nicaragua.

                     

        Lección 1. Tema: Los deportes, p.60 

        Lección 2. Tema: Para pasarlo bien, p.82      

       

        Vocabulary:

        1. Sports and outdoor activities

        2. City life

        3. Leisure activities

        4. Entertainment

       

        Grammar:

        1. Preterite vs. Imperfect

        2. Changes in meaning with verbs in the preterite

        3. Possessive pronouns

        4. Prepositions

        5. Comparatives of equality and inequality

        6. Superlatives

 

        Literature: Los tres cuervos (José Antonio Campos) e Idilio (José Asunción Silva)

 

        Projects: Create a photo album or scrap book.

                       A Power Point Presentation about Ecuador or Colombia                

        Lección 1. Tema: ¿Adónde vamos de vacaciones?, p.122

        Lección 2. Tema: De viaje, p.146

 

        Vocabulary:

        1. Planning a trip

        2. Air travel

 

        Grammar:
        1. Past participle

        2. The preterite perfect and pluperfect

        3. Future and conditional tense to express possibility and conjecture

 

        Literature: Día de Reyes (María Teresa Babín y La tela de Penélope o quién engaña a quién (Augusto Monterroso)

 

        Project: A pamphlet/collage about Puerto Rico or Guatemala

                     Role-Play Planning a Trip.

        Lección 1. Tema: Pintura y música, p.182

        Lección 2. Tema: Escultura y literatura, p.206

 

        Vocabulary:

        1. Art

        2. Music

        3. Sculpture

        4. Literature

 

        Grammar:
        1. Future perfect

        2. Conditional perfect

        3. Relative pronouns

        4. Passive voice

        5. Idiomatic expressions

 

        Literature: La Presa (Aquileo J. Echeverría) y Lo fatal (Rubén Darío)

      

        Project: To create a movie depicting a work of art.

                      An oral presentation of an artist, musician, painter, etc.

        Lección 1. Tema: La familia y los problemas sociales, p.240

        Lección 2. Tema: La educación y las finanzas, p.268

 

        Vocabulary:

        1. Family relationships

        2. Courtships

        3. Marriage

        4. Social problems and solutions

        5. School and college

        6. Finance

 

        Grammar:
        1. The subjunctive

        2. Subjunctive vs. indicative

        3. Command forms

 

        Literature: A pesar de todo (fragmentos) (Josefina González) y A Julia de Burgos (fragmento) (Julia de Burgos)

        Project:     Visit a Museum of Art and write a reaction paper about one of the paintings of a Spanish artist.

        Lección 1. Tema:  La televisión y las noticias, p. 306

        Lección 2. Tema: La programación y la publicidad, p. 328

 

        Vocabulary:

        1. Television

        2. Politics

        3. Natural disasters

        4. Television programming

        5. Commercial advertising

 

        Grammar:

        1. Tú commands

        2. Nosotros commands

        3. Imperfect subjunctive

        4. Compound tenses in the sunjunctive

 

        Literature: La bolsa (Fernán Caballero) y Poema XXIII (Antonio Machado)

 

        Project: A News/Television Program