FLS 152 - Elementary Spanish II

1. Concentrate on communication in past time.
   1. Review the regular preterit.
   2. Learn conjugation of irregular, stem-changing, and verbs with spelling changes.
   3. Form the imperfect tense.
   4. Begin to discriminate between uses of the preterit and imperfect tenses in oral and written production
   5. Use past tenses to convey reported speech.
2. Ask and answer questions to acquire or give information in present and past time.
3. Expand use of thematic vocabulary
4. Describe or engage in conversation on a variety of daily, personal, and family activities in present and past events
   1. Talk about their childhood using the imperfect.
   2. Talk about habitual activities in the past.
5. Express oneself in more lengthy and complex structures.
   1. Use direct and indirect object pronouns to replace antecedents.
   2. Begin to use present and past perfect tenses
   3. Use present and past progressive tenses
   4. Use of idiomatic expressions such as Hace + time + que + activity to express idea of “for” and “ago”.
   5. Apply the concept of the double negative
6. Use vocabulary to talk about career plans or future goals
7. Begin to understand the use of the subjective mood to express will upon others to perform tasks and express hypothetical future events or nonexistence.
   1. Use the subjunctive after verbs of will or volition.
   2. Use the subjunctive after expressions of emotion or doubt.
8. Express likes, dislikes and preferences in relationship to activities and objects.
   1. Use prior knowledge of gustar to understand other verbs that function the same way, such as importer, fascinar, etc
   2. Use prepositional pronouns to emphasize or contrast the agent.
9. Distinguish and use appropriately the formal and informal speech.
10. Listen to and comprehend more expansive and complex passages on thematic topics.
11. Recognize cultural differences in specific thematic situations and settings.
12. Compare people and objects
    1. Use comparative forms such as más que, menos que to express inequality.
    2. Use forms such as tan como, tanto como to express equality.
    3. Use forms that express the superlative like mayor, peor, etc.
13. Begin to sue imperative mood to express commands.
    1. Form formal and informal commands
    2. Distinguish between appropriate situations to sue formal and informal forms.
    3. Understand proper placement of pronouns in affirmative and negative commands.