Spanish 2
Midterm Exam
Review Topics
1. El Arreglo Personal: Parts of speech: in Spanish
Reflexive verbs and formal commands
Daily routines: present indicative tense (stem-changing verbs) and ordinal numbers
Parts of the body (conjunctions and/but/or and their spelling changes)
Packing for a trip: clothing/personal care items/demonstrative adjectives & pronouns
Possessive pronouns and direct object pronouns
(including attaching pronouns to the end of an affirmative command)
Negatives –nunca, ninguno, nada, nadie, tampoco and their positions in a sentence.
Making phone calls
Culture: introductions
2. En la Ciudad: Piropos
Adjectives: placement/agreement
Prepositions: locations
City buildings and transportation-stores, etc. Comparatives/Superlatives
Professions/nationalities
Animales vocabulary
Impersonal se
Review commands
Present progressive and attaching pronouns to the present participle- count back 3 vowels
Culture: personal distance/ bullfighting
Saber vs. Conocer, personal a
3.
La Niñez:
Imperfect indicative tense
Verbs like gustar and indirect objects
Possessive adjectives
Review professions/actions
Review and expand nationalities
‘As a child’ verbs vocab
Review adjectives agreement/placement
Sino vs. pero
‘When I was young’ adjectives vocab & numbers from 0-100
Culture: American vs. Estadounidense, La Navidad
Tenses: regulars and irregulars in each tense.
Present, including stem-changers and irregulars: so that you can form other tenses.
Formal Commands: Usted and Ustedes (yo form – o + opposite ending) attaching pronouns to the end and
count back 3 vowels.
Present progressive: form of estar + ando/iendo (when 3 vowels, change i to y) attaching pronouns to the
end and count back 3 vowels.
Imperfect tense: the abas and the ías (3 irregulars: ser, ver, ir)
Impersonal se: Used when the rules apply to everyone! Use third person, singular
No se permite andar en el césped. Se prohíbe fumar. Se celebra durante el mes de diciembre.
There will be 65-75 objective questions (multiple choice, matching, true and false, etc.)
6 short answer response questions
1-2 extended response questions.
Speaking evaluation in lab