HU 411S - Spanish II

• Understand the practical and fundamental skills of Spanish presented in this course in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, with emphasis on communication
• Use practically and creatively the target language both in and out of class
• Have insights into the cultures of Spanish-speaking people and hopefully, a greater understanding of the world and our place in it

• None 

• Vocabulary: clothes
• Expressions with tener
• The weather, months, and seasons
• The present progressive
• The possessives
• Reading: Hispanics in the United States
• Vocabulary: The city
• The preterit tense of regular verbs
• Preterit tense: stem-changing verbs
• Affirmative and negative words
• Numbers (100 and up)
• What is the date
• Reading: Spain
• Vocabulary: The countryside and nature
• Preterit tense: irregular verbs ser, ir, and dar
• Preterit tense: other irregular verbs
• Prepositions
• The prepositions por and para
• Pronouns that are objects of prepositions
• Reading: The Spanish Character
• Vocabulary: The home
• The imperfect tense
• Preterit vs. imperfect
• Hacer in expressions of time
• Demonstratives
• Reading: Mexico