4: Overview of the Grammar and Vocabulary Content

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Grammar and Vocabulary Topics

Tarea Libre covers 57 grammar topics typically taught in first-year Spanish courses in California Community Colleges. The project aims to increase adaptability and flexibility for Spanish instructors. Based on California’s C-ID curriculum model, the project has 7 modules for SPAN 100 and 7 modules for SPAN 110.

Each of the 57 modules is composed of the following:

Four to five grammar topics. As found on most homework (workbook and lab activities), each grammar topic has a vocabulary page and 4 levels of mastering steps:
- Paso Preliminar: Focus on vocabulary building, mostly multiple choice and select choice questions.
- Paso 1 Empecemos: Focus on recognizing grammatical concepts, mostly multiple choice and select choice questions.
- Paso 2 Continuemos: Focus on the initial application of grammatical topics, mostly fill-in-the-blank in shorter contexts.
- Paso 3 Practiquemos: Focus on the expanded application of grammatical topics, mostly fill-in-the-blank and select choices in longer paragraphs.
- Paso 4 Avancemos: Focus on the expanded application of grammatical topics in dialogues, mostly fill-in-the-blanks.
Listening, speaking, and reading comprehension activities.

List of Topics covered in the Tarea Libre ADAPT Homework Modules
Section	Grammatical Topic	Vocabulary	Number of Activities
1.1	Greetings	Saludos y despedidas	24
1.2	Definite articles	En la universidad	25
1.3	Indefinite articles	El salón de clase	22
1.4	Pluralizing nouns	Las materias	21
2.1	Personal pronouns	Los pronombres personales	8
2.2	The verb ‘ser’	Los números 0-100	21
2.3	Adjectives	Los días, los meses y los colores	41
2.4	The verbs ‘tener’ and ‘estar’	Las estaciones y el tiempo	24
2.5	Adjectives with ‘estar’	La hora	20
3.1	The verb ‘ir’ with places and to talk about the future (‘ir a [infinitive]’)	Los lugares adonde vamos	19
3.2	Forming questions	El arte	20
3.3	Regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs	Las tradiciones	20
3.4	Verbs with irregular ‘yo’ forms	Los verbos con formas irregulares de ‘yo’	22
4.1	Stem-changing verbs	Los números 101-1,000,000	24
4.2	Possessive adjectives	La familia	26
4.3	Gustar	Los viajes y las vacaciones	20
4.4	Reflexive verbs	La rutina diaria y las partes del cuerpo	23
5.1	Direct object pronouns	La comida	25
5.2	Present progressive	La gastronomía	20
5.3	‘Ser’ versus ‘estar’	Las profesiones y los oficios	25
6.1	‘Saber’ and ‘conocer’	Las nacionalidades, los lenguajes y las etnias	20
6.2	Indirect object pronouns	El tiempo libre	20
6.3	Gustar-like verbs	Los deportes	20
6.4	Demonstrative adjectives	Los adverbios de ubicación	20
7.1	Preterit	La ropa y la moda	22
7.2	Preterite with spelling changes and time expressions for preterit	Las compras y los accesorios de ropa	20
7.3	Stem-changing preterit verbs	Los colores y los estilos	20
7.4	Irregular preterit verbs	Los verbos irregulares del pretérito	20
7.5	‘Hacer’ with time constructions	‘Hacer’ en construcciones de tiempo	12
8.1	Imperfect	La niñez y la adolescencia	20
8.2	Preterit versus imperfect	Las celebraciones y las leyendas	20
8.3	‘Por’ versus ‘para’	‘Por’ versus ‘para’	20
8.4	Comparatives and superlatives	La búsqueda para un trabajo	20
9.1	Double object pronouns	Los quehaceres domésticos	20
9.2	Formal commands	El transporte y los lugares	20
9.3	Informal commands	Las instrucciones culinarias	20
9.4	Adverbs	Los adverbios y las expresiones adverbiales	16
10.1	Present perfect indicative and past participles	Los participios pasados	26
10.2	Relative pronouns	La oficina	20
10.3	Uses of ‘se’	Las acciones recíprocas	20
10.4	Affirmative and negative words	Las finanzas	20
11.1	Introduction to the subjunctive mood and the present subjunctive	Las partes del cuerpo humano	20
11.2	Present subjunctive with influence	Los síntomas y las condiciones médicas	20
11.3	Present subjunctive with impersonal expressions, doubt and ‘ojalá’	La salud	20
11.4	Stress and written accents	Los tildes	21
12.1	Present subjunctive with emotion	Los remedios caseros	20
12.2	Present subjunctive with adjectival clauses	La nutrición	20
12.3	Adverbial clauses that require subjunctive (ESCAPAA)	La farmacia y los medicamentos	20
12.4	Adverbial clauses that sometimes require subjunctive (MATCHED CDS)	Las enfermedades y las condiciones	20
13.1	Future tense	La ecología y los problemas mundiales	21
13.2	Conditional	El medio ambiente	20
13.3	Present perfect subjunctive	Los problemas ecológicos y la conservación	20
13.4	Pluperfect indicative	La justicia social	20
14.1	Imperfect subjunctive	La tecnología	20
14.2	Possible if-clauses	El mundo digital, el comercio-e y e-learning	20
14.3	Hypothetical situations	La ciencia y el espacio	20
14.4	Sequence of time	El mundo virtual	20

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Grammar and Vocabulary Topics

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Vocabulary

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