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2.1: Los objetivos and Overview

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    Los objetivos

    1. Review the Spanish pronunication rules for stress.
    2. Learn the diacritic stress.
    3. Learn some strategies for the correct use of the orthographic stress.
    4. Increase your Spanish vocabulary using English words : cognates.
    5. Reflect of cultural differences.
    6. Comprehension Strategy: Dare to Guess.
    7. Learn, recognize and apply clothing and shopping related vocabulary in writing and speech.
    8. Voice one’s opinion on likes, dislikes, what is important or interesting.
    9. Apply prepositions for emphasis, possession, expressions and the “personal a”.
    10. Learn to express what you need or want others to do.
    11. Discuss opinions about the actions of others.
    12. Gain the ability to be more diplomatic in your wishes, wants, needs of someone else or suggestions and recommendations to others.
    13. Recognize the traditional clothing within a variety of Spanish speaking
      countries.

    In Unit 1 we reviewed the Spanish alphabet and phonetic rules for application in speech and writing where the syllabic division is a key factor in having control of our pronunciation and correct spelling. Now we are going to delve deeper into the Spanish orthographic rules. As you know all words have a stressed syllable in Spanish. The stressed syllable or “sílaba tónica” is the one that is pronounced the loudest. The rules to know which is the stressed syllable are as follows:

    Overview

    1. Repasemos las reglas de pronunciación—reviewing the pronunciation rules.
    2. El acento diacrítico.
    3. Estrategias para la correcta acentuación.
    4. Estrategia: Uso de cognados — Incrementa tu vocabulario en español, usando palabras en inglés.
    5. Reflexionemos sobre las diferencias culturales
    6. Estrategia de comprensión : atrévete a adivinar. La estategia de lectura: Adivinando
    7. Agreguemos—el vocabulario sobre shopping (ir de compras) y clothing (la ropa).
      1. ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
      2. Comprendemos: Contesta las preguntas de la lectura con oraciones completas.
        1. Aprendamos el vocabulario relacionado a la moda y a la ropa.
      3. La ropa
        1. La cultura atrás del significado de las palabras
      4. De regreso a la moda
      5. Lee el siguiente diálogo, se trata de ir de compras.
      6. A continuación vamos a repasar los cognados y usemos la estrategia de “adivinar”, no utilices un diccionario, ni un traductor. ¡Adivinemos en el diálogo!
    8. ¡Los gustos y los disgustos!
    9. ¡Aprendamos las preposiciones!
      1. Apply prepositions for emphasis, possession, expressions and the “personal a.”
        1. La preposición A
      2. Practiquemos
        1. La preposición DE
        2. La preposición EN
      3. Practiquemos
        1. Las preposiciones POR y PARA
      4. Practiquemos
      5. ¡Practiquemos!
    10. Aprendiendo a expresar deseos y necesidades de otra persona: Introducción al subjuntivo.
      1. Recordemos los modos: Indicativo, subjuntivo e imperativo
    11. Dando opiniones de las acciones de los demás.
      1. Expresiones impersonales que requieren el uso del subjuntivo
    12. Agreguemos y avancemos con querencias, esperanzas, recomendaciones y sugerencias usando el subjuntivo.
    13. Apliquemos los conceptos con unas prendas tradicionales.
    14. Vocabulary

    This page titled 2.1: Los objetivos and Overview is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Elizabeth Silvaggio-Adams and Ma. Del Rocío Vallejo-Alegre (Milne Publishing) .