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DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESESPAN 220 FINAL EXAM STUDY
GUIDE
The Spanish Language Program Midterm Exam in the Department of
Spanish consists of anopen-ended test, a composition exam, and an
oral interview. The open-ended test includes:Listening
Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar. This
study guideis to assist you in your preparation for the exam.
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (10 PTS)One or more texts based on
themes and vocabulary from lessons 14, and 15 in Mosaicos.
Firstyour instructor will read the questions and then the listening
text. The texts will be read twiceonce slowly, and then once at
normal speed. It is advisable to take notes on the content of
thetext in the margins of your test as your instructor reads. You
may provide either short orcomplete sentence answers, based on the
information you hear.
II. READING COMPREHENSION (10 PTS)One or more texts based on the
themes and vocabulary from lessons 14, and 15 in Mosaicos.Read the
texts carefully and answer the questions based on the information
from the texts.Answer the questions with one or two complete
sentences.
III. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (80 PTS)Passages with fill-in
the-blank and open-ended questions based on themes, grammar points,
andvocabulary drawn from lessons 14, 15, and Expansin Gramatical
(A9-A12) in Mosaicos:
Structures: Adverbial conjunctions that always require the
subjunctive (pp. 474-476) Adverbial conjunctions: subjunctive or
indicative (pp. 477-480) The past perfect (pp. 481-483) Infinitive
as subject of a sentence and as object of a preposition (pp.
484-485) The imperfect subjunctive (pp. 506-509) If-clauses (pp.
510-512); Se for unplanned occurrences (pp. 513-515)
The conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive (A9,
A10); If-clauses (using perfecttenses) (A11-A12)
Vocabulary: Las sociedades de hoy (pp. 466-468) El papel de la
mujer (pp. 469-470) En directo (p. 480, 487) Temas de hoy: Los
jvenes y la emigracin (pp. 471-472) Hombre pequeito (p. 490) La
compleja vida de Amrica latina (pp. 492-493) Vocabulario Leccin 14
(p. 495) La conservacin del medio ambiente (pp. 500-501) Otros
retros del futuro (pp. 502-504) En directo (p. 512, 515, 518)
Apocalipsis (p. 520) La ciencia y la tecnolgica en el mundo de hoy
(pp. 498-499) Vocabulario Leccin 15 (p. 557)
COMPOSITION EXA M
The composition exam is a timed, writing proficiency task, based
on themes, grammar pointsand vocabulary drawn from lessons 14, 15,
and Expansin Gramatical (A9-A12) in Mosaicos. Youwill be given two
topics, from which you will select one to write your composition.
You will have
