Prerequisites Checklist and Review Guide

Prerequisites Checklist of Material of SPAN 2001

Puntos de partida

Capítulo preliminar Greetings and courtesy (4) Spanish Alphabet (7) Describing self and others : SER (9) Pronunciation: Vowels (12)

Numbers 0 – 30 (14) Likes and dislikes (gustar) (16) Telling time (17) Vocabulario: Ante todo (22)

Capítulo 1 *Interrogative words (29) Pronunciation: Diphthongs (31) Singular nouns: Gender and articles (32) Nouns and articles: Plural forms (35)

Subject pronouns, Present tense of –ar verbs, Negation (38) *Expressing time of the day (43) *The verb Estar (44) Yes/no questions (45) Vocabulario: en la Universidad (52)

Capítulo 2 Numbers 31 – 100 (62) *Expressing age (63) Adjectives (64) *Adjectives of nationality (70) Pronunciation: Stress and written accents (65) Adjectives: Gender number and position (66)

Present tense of SER, summary of uses (72) *Para and porque (75) Possessive adjectives (77) Present tense of –er and –ir verbs (80) *Expressions of frequency (84) Vocabulario: La familia (90)

Capítulo 3

Numbers greater than 100 (103) Pronunciation: Stress and written accents (105) Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns (107) Tener, venir, preferir, querer and poder, idioms with tener (111)

*Mucho and poco (114) Ir, future with Ir + a + infinitive, the contraction al (116) Vocabulario: De compras (122)

Capítulo 4 *Expressing on with days of the week (131) Prepositions (134) Hacer, oír, poner, salir, traer, and ver (136)

Present tense of stem-changing verbs (142) Reflexive pronouns (147) *Sequence expressions (150) Vocabulario: La casa ((128)

Capítulo 5 *More idioms with tener (165) *Pronouns after prepositions (168)

Present participle with other verbs (174) Uses of SER and ESTAR (175) *Por after certain adjectives

Prepositional pronouns (168) Present progressive (174)

Comparisons (182) Vocabulario: Las estaciones y el tiempo (162)

Capítulo 6 Saber and conocer (204) Direct objects, personal a, and direct object pronouns (207) *Acabar de + infinitive

Indefinite and negative words Formal commands (217) *Subjunctive (222) Vocabulario: ¿Qué le gusta comer?(198)

Capítulo 7 *The passive use of se (238) Indirect object pronouns, dar and decir (240) More on Gustar (245)

*More on likes and dislikes (249) Preterite of regular verbs and of dar, hacer, ir and ser (250) Vocabulario: de vacaciones (232)

*These sections appear as Notas comunicativas in the textbook.