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GROSSMONT COLLEGE

SPANISH 120 / I – SPRING 2002

 

INSTRUCTOR: Yolanda Guerrero

OFFICE LOCATION: 502B

TELEPHONE: (619) 644-7489

E-MAIL: Yolanda.Guerrero@gcccd.net

 

COURSE: Spanish 120/I, Second Course in Spanish

OFFICE HOURS:   MT à 10:30a.m.-12 noon

VOICE MAIL: 7489   WTh à 10:30a.m.-11:30a.m.

FAX:  (619) 461-3396

 

 

TEXT                Puntos de Partida, 6th Ed., Knorre, Dorwick, Pérez-Gironés, Glass, Villareal

REQUIRED:       Puntos de Partida, 6th Ed., First Semester Spanish Selected Materials from the supplements, Arana and Arana, Sablo-Yates, Foerster and Miller (purple wkbk)

                        501 Spanish Verbs

                        Spanish – English dictionary (recommended)

 

 

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:

An introductory course to the Spanish language and the culture of its speakers. The purpose of Spanish 120 is to facilitate the practical application of the language in everyday oral and written communication at the beginning novice level. Since the focus will be on basic communication skills, the class will be conducted in Spanish as much as possible. While becoming familiar with the Spanish speaking world, students will learn structures that will enable them to function in Spanish in everyday contexts.

 

COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

Students will be able to communicate, both orally and in writing with Spanish-speaking persons about common, everyday topics. Students will be able to discuss and relate to Hispanic culture. Students will complete lessons 1-6 in the texts and additional handouts.

 

ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION:

Students must attend class. Regular attendance is expected of every student. You will be dropped from class due to poor attendance. When unexcused absences exceed the number of hours that a class meets in one week (5), or the instructor judges a student’s absences to be so excessive as to make it impossible for the student to complete the course successfully, the instructor must drop the student from the class. The student who has been absent due to illness or medical treatment should inform the instructor as to the cause of the absence.

 

Students are expected to come to class prepared to participate in oral and written work based on assignments. Oral as well as written participation make up part of your final grade. Class activities are an essential component in your learning the language and you have to be present to benefit from them, thus attendance is very important.

 

HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENTS:

Students are expected to do the assigned written and oral homework. The written homework as specified in the syllabus is from the textbook. The supplementary material/worksheets (3rd part of the purple workbook) will be assigned by the teacher weekly. All written homework is due on the day specified in the syllabus. Be prepared to review and practice orally in class. Any supplementary worksheets must be turned in. Include the homework assignment number in large bold numbers and the time of the class on all homework submitted to receive credit. No late homework is accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

 

The Workbook and Laboratory Manual that are the first and second sections in your purple workbook should be kept up to date by every student. You are to do all the exercises in your workbooks. You are responsible for correcting them using the Answer Key in the back of the workbook. They will be collected and graded upon completion of each chapter. As we do each lesson in the textbook, you are to do the corresponding lesson in your workbooks. The audio tapes to complete the Laboratory Manual are available in the CALM section of the LRC. You may high-speed duplicate the tapes and complete the workbook at your convenience. You can also buy a set of 7 CDs to compete the Lab Manual for $14.00.

 

A journal should be kept by every student. The topics are in this handout. It is due the day of your vocabulary quiz. It must be written in pen in a “Blue Book” or typed and submitted in a folder. Throughout the course there will be in-class compositions and dictations.

 

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LANGUAGE:

Spanish is the language which will be used during the course. The instructor will use Spanish when lecturing, asking questions and responding; you are expected to do the same.

 

ADDITIONAL PRACTICE AND RESOURCES:

Computer aided practice is available at the Instructional Multimedia Resource room located in the LRC. Students may use other interactive software programs to aid in composition writing, idioms, grammar review, and the history, culture and geography of the Spanish-speaking world. There is a word processing program that allows typing in over 30 languages including Spanish. You can also do the interactive computer exercises using the CD ROM for Puntos de Partida available in the Instructional Multi-media Center of the LRC (Learning Resource Center).

 

Tutorial help is available in the LRC free of charge, however, the number of students that will be tutored will be limited. If you think you might need a tutor during the semester, sign up as soon as possible.

 

GRADING AND EVALUATION:

There will be a written exam after each of the seven chapters and a comprehensive final. Student oral competency plays an integral part of the course grade. You will be required to practice Spanish in and outside of class. There will be oral evaluations periodically throughout the semester. For the midterm and final oral interviews, it is the responsibility of every student to make an appointment with the instructor. Each interview will be ten to fifteen minutes long. The oral midterm will be an interview in class. The final will be a person to person interview. There will be no make-ups of quizzes or exams, however, students may drop one chapter exam grade/score. Any exam not taken within ONE week will automatically turn into a letter grade of “F”. No late assignments are accepted. Grades will be determined as follows:

 

Written Exams       40%

Chapter exams and Voca Quizzes

Midterm

Final

 

 

25%

5%

10%

 

 

Class Performance  25%

Class attendance and participation

Written homework (textbook and workbooks)

 

 

10%

15%

Oral Proficiency Evaluations 25%

Oral Midterm (interview)

Oral Final *(interview)

 

 10%

15%

 

Writing   10%

 

Journals/dictations/compositions

 

 

10%

 

A =     100-90                     D =        69-60

                                                B =       89-80                     F =        59 - >

                                                C =      79-70

 

 

PHILOSOPHY OF TESTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE:

A test is a reflection and extension of the instruction you receive in class. It is not a repetition of it. The role of language instruction is to provide you, the students, a format in which to develop communicative language abilities. As students, your role is to take advantage of the opportunities provided through the instruction. The role of the test, then, is to measure and gauge the extent to which an individual student has benefited from or taken advantage of the instruction. It is not a concern with mastery of the material in the sense of your ability to memorize and regurgitate it. What I am interested in is whether or not you have integrated the material. Have you put the pieces together? Can you create with the language? In other words, there is instruction and then there is YOU. What can you do with the instruction you have been provided?

 

ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS:

Students with disabilities who may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSP&S) early in the semester so that reasonable accommodations may be implemented as soon as possible. Students may contact DSP&S in person in room 110 or by phone at (619) 644-7112 (voice) or (619) 644-7119 (TTY for deaf).

 


ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:

Cheating and plagiarism can result in any one of a variety of sanctions. Such penalties may range from an adjusted grade on the particular exam, paper, project or assignment to a failing grade in the course at the discretion of the instructor subject to certain conditions. The instructor may also summarily suspend the student for the class meeting when the infraction occurred as well as the following class meeting; extreme cases can result in extended suspension or expulsion as stipulated by the college’s Disruptive Student Behavior Policy. Disruptive behavior, or deliberate falsification of information are bases for dismissal from class and/or from the college for the duration of the semester.

 

 


BEEPERS AND CELLULAR PHONES:

As a courtesy to the class and the instructor, turn OFF all beepers and

cellular telephones before entering the class.

 

 

FINAL EXAMINATION:

You are required to take the final exam at the scheduled time and date.

 

Section 7602 MW     Wednesday, May 29, 2002       7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Section 7607 TTh     Tuesday, May 28, 2002             7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

 


 

SPANISH 120 MW                                                                                                                  Yolanda Guerrero

Puntos de Partida, 6th Ed.                                                                                                                Spring 2002

 

                                                                            SYLLABUS

 

WK

 

DUE DATE

STUDY PAGES

 

ASSIGN #

HOMEWORK WRITTEN

HOMEWORK ORAL

QUIZZES/EXAMS

JOURNALS

1

Jan.    28

 

          30

 

Introduction

Ante Todo

#1

 

#2

5ABC, 6D

 

10 pasos 2

4, 6D8, 8B, 9A

 

13A, 20

 

2

Feb.     4

 

            6

 

 

 

 

 

Examen AT

#3

 

#4

#5

14B, 17AB, 25

 

23 AB

Practice Test

14 conv, 15AB, 17 conv

 

28 Lect

Voca Quiz AT

Jouranl AT

Examen-AT

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

3

          11

 

          13

 

Capítulo 1

#6

 

#7

35AB, 40AB

 

41AB, 42AB

37, 38C

 

43AB, 47 practica

 

4

          18

 

          20

 

 

 

HOLIDAY

 

 

#8

#9

Holiday

 

48B, A, 49, 50C

Practice Test 1

NO HAY CLASE

 

52 conv, 55AB

 

 

Voca Quiz 1

Journal 1

5

          25

 

          27

 

 

Examen 1

Capítulo 2

#10

 

#11

67AB, 68AB

71C

74A, 75B

76CD

67, 70 conv

 

76, 77B

Examen 1

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

6

Mar.     4

 

 

            6

 

 

 

#12

 

 

#13

#14

78AB, 82A,83C

 

 

84E, 86ABC

Practice Test 2

79 conv., 83B, 84 conv

 

88 conv, 92B

 

Voca Quiz 2

Journal 2

7

          11

 

 

          13

 

 

Examen 2

Capítulo 3

#15

 

 

#16

103AB, 104C, 105

 

107C, 112AB

115A

103A, 106AB, conv.

110AB, 111

 

115 paso 2

116 conv

Examen 2

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

8

          18

 

          20

 

     25-29

 

 

 

Examen 3

 

Spring Break

#17

#18

119AB, 122AB

Practice Test 3

Review for Midterm

117BC,118,119 conv

Schedule Oral Midterm

Oral MT Exams

Voca Quiz 3

Journal 3

Examen 3

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

9

April     1

 

 

            3

 

 

Midterm AT-3 Exam

 

Entrevistas Orales MT

#19

Practice MT

 

 

Oral MT Exams

Oral MT Exams

 

 

Oral MT Exams

MIDTERM WEEK

10

            8

 

          10

 

 

Capítulo 4

#20

 

#21

133A, 134B, 138AB

141BC 145B

132A, 133B, 134A

136AB

141A, 142 conv, 144A

145C, 145A

 

11

          15

 

 

          17

 

 

 

 

 

Examen 4

#22

 

 

#23

147, 149A, 150B

 

Practice Test 4

148AB, 149C, 151C

 

 

155-157

Voca Quiz 4

Journal 4

Examen 4

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

12

          22

 

          24

 

Capítulo 5

#24

 

#25

162AB, 163CD

168AB

169C, ABC

160AB, 166B

165 pron

174 conv

 

13

          29

 

May     1

 

 

 

 

 

Examen 5

#26

 

#27

173BC, 174D

179ABCD

Practice Test 5

180A, 180B

 

182ABC, 184C

Voca Quiz 5

Journal 5

Examen 5

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

14

            6

 

            8

 

 

Capítulo 6

#28

 

#29

194C, 197BC

 

201ABC, 202D

204AB

193 conv, 195D

196A, 197D

202 conv 203

205C, 205 conv

 

15

          13

 

          15

 

 

 

#30

 

#31

#32

208AB, 208C

209E

214AB

Practice Test 6

209D, 210F, 211

Schedule Oral Final

Oral Final Exams

Voca Quiz 6

Journal 6

16

          20

 

          22

 

Examen 6

 

 

#33

 

Oral Final Exams

 

Oral Final Exams

Examen 6

Hmwk/Wkbk/Lbbk/Supp Mat

 

FINAL EXAM:      Section 7502 MW        Wednesday, May 29, 2002    7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

                           Section 7507 TTh        Tuesday, May 28, 2002         7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

 


                                                                                                                                                                      

Last Name                   First Name       SS#                                          Spanish 120                        Semester

 

 

 

Chapter Exams 25%

 

 

 

Writing-Compositions Journals/Dictation 10%

 

Ante Todo _________________

 

 

 

Ante Todo _________________

1 ________________________

 

 

 

1 ________________________

2 ________________________

 

 

 

2 ________________________

3 ________________________

 

 

 

3 ________________________

4 ________________________

 

 

 

4 ________________________

5 ________________________

 

 

 

5 ________________________

6 ________________________

 

 

 

6 ________________________

 

 

Midterm 5% ______     Oral Midterm (Interview) 10% _________     Class Performance 10% _________

 

Final 10% ________   Oral Final (Interview) 5% ___________       Written homework 15% __________

                                                                                                         (Textbook, workbook, worksheets)

 

 

FINAL GRADE: ____________

 


"How To Learn a Foreign Language"

 

Foreign Language study requires a unique degree of cooperation and communication between student and teacher. Here are a few helpful suggestions to make your Foreign Language class easier and more rewarding!

 

1.     Make a constant effort to understand everything that is said in class. The classroom is your primary source of information for all first-year studies. You snooze, you lose!

 

2.     Ask questions any time there are points you don't understand in class or in the text. You learn the most from questions that you formulate yourself. What you don't know . . . ask!

 

3.     Do all exercises as they are assigned and make sure you understand the instructions. Homework and class assignments are designed to teach you specific language structures and to give you practice for mastering a new language. If you want to learn it . . . you've got to earn it!

 

4.     Do not fall behind in your work! "Catching up" is extremely difficult to do in an elementary language class. Maximum contact with the material and attendance in class is very important in order to learn everything you will need to speak, write and understand a new language. Unlike many of your other classes, you cannot miss a foreign language class and stay home and read a chapter you missed because you won't understand what you're reading! Stay up, don't catch up! (But if you miss anything . . . make it up ASAP!)

 

5.     It is important that you remember all that you possibly can from each class. Language is a cumulative skill that requires you to know and use everything you will have learned from the first day on. You must not only understand the material, you must also learn how to use it. Speak and write as much and as often as you can in the foreign language you are studying. This is the best way to make it your language! You don't just have a language . . . you use it!

 

6.     Read the grammar explanations and reading lessons out loud at home after you have gone over them in class. You will improve your comprehensive reading skills as well as your pronunciation. Hear it . . . see it . . . read it . . . say it . . . learn it . . . use it . . . own it!

 

7.     Read slowly and carefully at first. Be more concerned with comprehension than with speed. Your reading rate will naturally increase as you become more familiar with your new language. You're a baby in this new language . . . but you'll grow!

 

8.     There is an enormous amount of new material to learn when you study a new language. Grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, culture, literature, reading, writing! Don't be afraid of your feelings of confusion at first. It is only through the organization of all these confusing elements that you will make progress. Asking questions is the best way to replace confusion with understanding. Language is like juggling . . . you've got to keep it all working together!

 

9.     Finally, don't be disappointed if your progress seems slow at first. Learning a new language takes a lot of time and hard work, but it can be done! You will be surprised how much you will have learned after only a few weeks! By following your teacher's instructions and using the helpful hints on this page, you will progress rapidly and soon be ready to communicate with a whole new world of people! If you try . . . you can do it!

 

                  Relax, Have Fun, and Learn!


                                    SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDYING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 

       LANGUAGE IS A COMPLEX SET OF HABITS WHICH MAKES COMMUNICATIONS POSSIBLE

 

The learning of a second language is not a random process. It is rigorous and subjected to laws of combined order and dynamism. "Learning French" means the acquisition of four skills: LISTENING (the ability to understand spoken French)CSPEAKINGCREADINGCWRITING. Although there are no magic answers to make everything easy and painless, the following suggestions are offered to enable you to work more efficiently.

 

1.     LISTEN AND IMITATE: Listen attentively to someone who speaks the language and imitate him as exactly as you can. Language learning is a matter of performing habits so well learned that they become automatic. Use the facts learned in one class over and over again until it becomes second nature.

 

2.     PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE! Make full use of class time: When another student is reciting, recite mentally along with him; you could have new material half memorized before you go home. At home, practice the material you heard in class over and over again until it becomes second nature.

 

3.     MEMORIZECCONCENTRATE: As you memorize, think about the grammatical explanations which accompany each set of new material. True, grammar is not an aim in itself. Its directions, however, can speed up the learning process considerably. LEARN TO CONCENTRATE. The ability to think about the structure of a language is the one big advantage you have over a child learning to speak.

 

4.     DIVIDE MATERIAL INTO SMALL UNITS: Do not try to memorize a large body of material at once. Break it up into small units; memorize each of these separately then string them together. Also, divide your study time into small units as well.

 

5.     When studying at home, read your lessons and exercises ALOUD.

 

6.     Increase your vocabulary, but learn sentences, not just words out of context.

 

7.     If, at any time, you do not understand what is being said in French, you must ask immediately. Know what is going on.

 

8.     Your success in this course depends partly upon the amount of work YOU do at home. In the early stages, most of your homework will be practicing orally what has been done in class. Other homework will consist of copying sentences, reading aloud, grammar drills and exercises, compositions, etc.

 

9.     Language learning is a HIGHLY CUMULATIVE PROCESS. It is important not to fall behind. Cramming for a language exam is as sensible as cramming for a swimming test. Do a conscientious job on each lesson as it is assigned, then spend a little extra time on review. If you experience any difficulty, contact your teacher as soon as possible.

 

10.   The amount of language you learn depends on your active participation in repetition and exercises, at home and in class.


Student Oral Proficiency Objectives / Spanish 120

Grossmont College

 

PUNTOS DE PARTIDA

 

FUNCTION

GRAMMAR/STRUCTURE/VOCABULARY

Lección Preliminar

·         meet and greet other

·         describe yourself and other

·         use numbers 1-30

·         tell time

·         talk about what you like and don’t like

·         get information by asking questions

·         know Spanish-speaking countries

 

greeting and courtesy expressions

“ser”/descriptive adjectives

numbers 1-30

time vocabulary/expressions

me, te, le “gusta” / verbs

ser y estar / palabras interrogatives

location and capital – ask questions

Capítulo 1

·         talk about college and studies

 

·         identify people and things in classroom environment

 

·         express action

 

·         ask questions

 

 

lugares / cosas y personas en la universidad

 

género y articulos (indef/def)

formas plurales – nouns and articles

 

subject pronouns / -ar verbs / negation

 

yes and no questions with –ar verbs

palabras interrogatives with –ar verbs

Capítulo 2

 

·         talk about family

 

 

·         know their two last names

 

·         use numbers up to 100

 

·         describe people and things with “ser”

 

 

 

·         express action

 

·         questions and explanations

 

 

la familia y parentesco- voca. tener – tener ____ años possession ser + de

possessive adjectives (mi/s, tu/s, su/s)

 

¿Cómo te llamas?

 

numbers 120

 

ser ® IDs (uses-origin, nationality, etc.)

noun / adjective agreement / position

demonstrative adjective and neuter- este, esta, estos, estas, esto

 

-er and –ir verbs with adverbial expressions of frequency

 

¿Por qué? Para . . . /Porque


 

Capítulo 3

 

·         talk about shopping, clothing and color

·         Identify number past 100

·         tell what belongs to you and other

·         express more actions/states of mind references and wishes

·         tell where you want to go and

·         talk about the future

 

 

vocabulario de compras/colores

 

 

 

possession ser + de / possessive adjectives

 

tener / vener / e ® le / o ® ue

expressions with tener

 

verb “ir”

 

Ir + a + infinitive / a + el ® al

Capítulo 4

 

·         talk about where you live

·         express days of the week

 

 

·         express more actions

 

 

·         talk about actions generally expressed in English with –self

·         point out people and things

 

 

casa – cuartos y mueblos vocabularios

 

días de la semana y otras expersiones de tiempo adverbios para expresar secuencia preposiciones con tiempo

 

verbos irregulares – presente

/ hacer, oír, poner, salir, traer, ver

e ®ie               o (u) ® ue                   e ® i

 

verbos reflexivos-rutinos diaria

 

 

demonstrative adjectives

Capítulo 5

 

·         talk about weather, seasons, seasonal activities and dates

·         point out where things are in relationships to others

 

 

 

·         talk about what you are doing right now

·         review and contrast the use of two Spanish verbs “to be”

·         make comparisons                         regulares

 

                                                           

                                                            irregulares

 

 

weather vocabulary, tener calor/frío, calendar, season and months, “la fecha”

 

preposiciones – cerca/lejos/delante/detrás/encima + de debajo/a la izquierda / a la derecha/ al lado de + de al este/oeste/norte/sur + de

objects of preposition – mí, ti, ella, etc.

 

presente progresivo – estar + gerundio

 

usos de “ser” y “estar”

past participles used as adjectives

 

¹ > < S1 + verb + MÁS / MENOS + adj/adv + QUE + S2

= S1 + verb + TAN + adj / adv + COMO + S2

= S1 + verb + TANTO/ A / OS/ AS + noun + COMO + S2

¹S1 + verb + irreg. form + adj/adv + QUE + S2 (mejor / peor que – mayor / menor que)


 

Capítulo 6

 

·         discuss food and food preferences

 

 

 

·         talk about who you know and what you know

·         use “it” and “them” to talk about things

·         express negation and use negative words

 

·         tell others what to do using formal commands

 

 

food and meal vocabulary acabar + de infinitivo

tener hambre / sed

 

 

saber vs. conocer; personal “a”

 

direct object pronouns

 

negative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs

 

 

formal commands – singular and plural

polite expressions

 

 


Spanish 120                                                                                                                Yolanda E. Guerrero

Grossmont College

 

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS

 

As part of the writing component for this class, students are required to keep a journal and submit it on due date. During the semester you must have written seven journal entries, one per chapter. It must be written legibly in pen in a “Blue Book.” If it is not legible, it will not be scored. The “Blue Book” can be purchased at the campus bookstore and it should have more than 10 pages. Students may also type the entries but they should be kept all together in a folder. All the topics for the journal and the page numbers below are from the “Mi Diario” section of each corresponding chapter in the Student Workbook Puntos de Partida. The instructor will inform you as to the length for each journal entry.

 

The Journal (7 entries) is 10% for your final grade. They are scored on a scale from 1-5; (5 –excellent/well-written, few or no errors; 4 – good; 3 – satisfactory; 2 – poor; 1 – unsatisfactory). Late journals will have 1 or more points deducted from the score. Throughout the course there may be in-class compositions and dictation.

 

 

Spanish 120

 

Chapter

Pages

Topics

Ante Todo

p. 10

“Mi Diario”

1

p. 21

“La Universidad”

2

p. 35

“Mi Pariente Favorito”

3

p. 48

“Mi Ropa”

4

p. 65

“Mi Casa”

5

p. 77

“Mis Actividades durante las Cuatro Estaciones del Año”

6

p. 89

“La Comida”

 

 

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