Spanish 4
Course Summary
Gain Spanish conversational fluency through discussions on a range of themes, including global challenges, planning for the future, expressing preferences, and appropriate work behavior. Enhance language skills by delving into cultural topics, including cinema, artistic works, historical sites, and international travel. Students develop and expand grammar competency in advanced concepts, such as irregular verbs, the subjunctive, the passive voice, relative clauses, the narrative past, the past perfect, and much more. In this course, students participate in technology-assisted interactive sessions throughout the term, engaging in spontaneous discussions in Spanish alongside prompt instructor support and feedback.
This class is conducted in Spanish.
Curriculum
This is a 2-semester course. We do not recommend taking both semesters simultaneously.
Unit 1
- Travel by Plane
- Where Are You Going/Where Are You Coming From
- Expressions for Times of Day
- Asking Someone How Someone Liked Something
Unit 2
- Continents: Climates
- Irregular Verbs (Stem-Changing Verbs in Preterit)
- Opposites
- Historical Sites: Useful Phrases
- Irregular Verbs (car/gar/zar)
Unit 3
- Driving
- If/Then Clauses
- Verbs Used as Nouns
- Demonstrative Adjectives
- Passive Voice
Unit 4
- Jobs-Etiquette
- Modal Verbs with the Passive Voice
- Relative Pronouns
- Transitional Words
- Exclamations
Unit 5
- Movies/Adverbs of Negation
- Expressing Favorites
- Compound Words
- The Past Pluperfect
- Passive Voice, Narrative Past
Unit 6
- Filmmakers/Poets/Authors
- The Superlative
- Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
- False Friends
- Expressing Enthusiasm, Disappointment, and Sympathy
Unit 7
- Cultural Identities
- Passive Voice Impersonal Se
- Expressing Approval and Disapproval
- Giving and Responding to Compliments
Unit 8
- Political Interests
- Expressing Possession
- Adverbs
- Verbs vs Familiarity
- Plurals
Unit 9
- Personal Priorities
- Double Infinitives
- Infinitive Clauses
- Conversational Past
- Asking for Help in the Imperative
Unit 10
- Schooling and Planning for the Future
- Past Subjunctive
- Agreeing with Reservations; Justifying Your Answers
- Past Participles as Adjectives
- Expressing Obligation
Unit 11
- Poems/Short Stories
- Creating Nouns from Verbs
- Review of Past Tense Verbs: Imperfect and Preterite
- Past Perfect with Modals
- Verb-Preposition Combinations
Unit 12
- Refugees
- Forming Questions
- Infinitives Used as Nouns
- Extending and Responding to an Invitation
- Relative Pronouns After Prepositions