1. Hola, ¿qué tal?
OBJECTIVES: Greet and say goodbye to people in formal and informal
situations. Describe your classroom, your friends, and other
people. Use numbers up to 100 and exchange telephone numbers. Spell
names. VOCABULARY: The alphabet. Numbers 0-100. Classroom
vocabulary. Greetings. Descriptive adjectives. GRAMMAR: Gender and
number of nouns. Definite and indefinite articles and the use of
hay. The verb ser. Adjective agreement. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura:
La escuela es para todos. Lectura: Algunos famosos de
Latinoamérica. Video: (new) La narración de voz en off (locución
bilingüe). CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: Latinos e hispanos en el
mundo. Conexiones culturales: La diversidad del mundo hispano.
2. ¿Cómo es tu vida?
OBJECTIVES: Describe your family and talk about ages. Discuss your
classes. Discuss your routine (using -ar verbs). Express ownership.
VOCABULARY: Family members and common pets. Academic subjects.
GRAMMAR: Possessive adjectives. Regular –ar verbs. The verb tener
and expressions with tener. Adjective placement. READING AND VIDEO:
Lectura: La familia típica latinoamericana. Lectura: Otros sistemas
universitarios. Video: La administración (Asistente de oficina,
moved from C1). CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: El papel y de la
familia y su valor. Conexiones culturales: La educación.
3. ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
OBJECTIVES: Talk about the weather and seasons. Discuss clothing.
Express likes and dislikes. Communicate dates and times. Tell what
you and others are going to do in the near future. VOCABULARY:
Seasons, weather, clothing and colors. Days of the week, months and
time. GRAMMAR: The verb gustar. Regular –er and –ir verbs. The verb
ir. Ir + a + infinitive. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura: La ropa
tradicional. Lectura: La Navidad en algunos países hispanos. Video:
El turismo. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: El clima y la ropa.
Conexiones culturales: Las celebraciones.
4. ¿Dónde vives?
OBJECTIVES: Describe your town or city. Describe your home. Tell
where things are located. Request information about the cost of
things. Use question words to ask for specific information.
VOCABULARY: Places in a city. Rooms of a house, furniture and
appliances. GRAMMAR: Stem-changing verbs 1. (o->ue). The verb
estar with prepositions. Question formation. Stem changing verbs 2.
e->i , i->ie). READING AND VIDEO: Lectura: Algunas ciudades
únicas de Latinoamérica. Lectura: Soluciones a la vivienda. Video:
La arquitectura. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: Ciudades fuera de
lo común. Conexiones culturales: Casas únicas.
5. ¿Estás feliz en el trabajo?
OBJECTIVES: Describe your feelings, emotions, and physical states.
Talk about ongoing actions. Discuss abilities needed for certain
jobs and professions. VOCABULARY: Adjectives of emotion and
physical states. Professions. GRAMMAR: Estar with adjectives and
the present progressive. Ser and estar. Verbs with changes in the
first person. Saber and conocer. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura:
¿Quiénes son más felices? Lectura: Profesiones poco comunes. Video:
El trabajo social. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: Las emociones y
el bienestar. Conexiones culturales: Las profesiones y la
economía.
6. ¿Cómo pasas el día?
OBJECTIVES: Talk about your daily routine. Discuss your hobbies and
pastimes. Talk about when and how often you do things. Talk about
sports. Discuss events that occurred in the past. VOCABULARY: Parts
of the body. Sports and outdoor activities. GRAMMAR: Reflexive
verbs. Sequence of events and frecuency. The preterite.
Stem-changing verbs in the preterite. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura:
La siesta. Lectura: Deportistas famosos. Video: La educación
física. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: La vida diaria. Conexiones
culturales: Los deportes en España y Latinoamérica.
7. ¿Qué te gusta comer?
OBJECTIVES: Talk about food. Order meals at a restaurant. Use
numbers above 100. VOCABULARY: Fruit, vegetables and condiments.
Meals and utensils. Numbers above 100. GRAMMAR: Irregular verbs in
the preterite. Por and para and prepositional pronouns. Direct
object pronouns 1 (third person). Direct object pronouns 2 (first
and second person). READING AND VIDEO: Lectura: Los alimentos del
Nuevo Mundo. La comida rápida en Latinoamérica. Video: La cocina.
CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: La comida y la identidad cultural.
Conexiones culturales: El negocio de la comida.
8. ¿Qué haces dentro y fuera de la casa?
OBJECTIVES: Describe household chores. Talk about your hobbies -
and pastimes. Talk about what you used to do in the past.
VOCABULARY: Household chores. Hobbies and pastimes. GRAMMAR: The
imperfect. Indefinite and negative expressions. Indirect object
pronouns (and verbs like gustar). Double object pronouns. READING
AND VIDEO: Lectura: La ciudad es nuestra casa. Lectura: Todos
necesitamos un pasatiempo. Video: (new) Publicidad y Marketing.
CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: Los deberes de la casa. Conexiones
culturales: El entretenimiento.
9. ¿Qué pasó?
OBJECTIVES: Describe past events in detail. Talk about holidays and
celebrations. Give the details of an accident. VOCABULARY: Parties
and celebrations. Navigating the city. GRAMMAR: A comparison of the
preterite and imperfect. Uses of the preterite and the imperfect.
Preterite and imperfect with emotions and conditions. Summary of
preterite and imperfect. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura: El Día de los
Muertos. Lectura: Leyendas urbanas. Video: El órden público.
CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: Festivales y celebraciones.
Conexiones culturales: El tráfico y los accidentes.
10. ¿Adónde vas a viajar?
OBJECTIVES: Give and receive directions. Make travel arrangements.
Reserve and talk about hotel accommodations. Suggest activities.
Make informal and formal requests. VOCABULARY: Taking a trip.
Staying in a hotel. GRAMMAR: Relative pronouns. Formal and nosotros
commands. Informal commands. Commands with pronouns. READING AND
VIDEO: Lectura: ¿Adónde ir de vacaciones? Lectura: ¿Dónde quedarse:
hoteles, moteles, pensiones o albergues? Video: La seguridad de
aeropuertos. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: La industria del
turismo. Conexiones culturales: Lugares excepcionales.
11. ¿Es la moda arte?
OBJECTIVES: Express preferences and make comparisons. Describe the
state of objects and people. VOCABULARY: Shopping for clothing.
Art. GRAMMAR: Passive se/impersonal se. Comparisons. Estar with the
past participle. Se to indicate accidental occurrences. READING AND
VIDEO: Lectura: Las Tapadas en Perú. Lectura: Remedios Varo. Video:
Las ventas. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: La moda. Conexiones
culturales: Las artes tradicionales.
12. ¿Qué será de nuestro planeta?
OBJECTIVES: Talk about what you have done. Talk about the future.
Discuss the environment. Express your opinions and knowledge about
the animal world and the environment. Express doubt and certainty.
VOCABULARY: Geography and environment. Animals. GRAMMAR: Present
perfect. Future. Present subjunctive with impersonal expressions.
Present subjunctive with doubt. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura: Los
parques nacionales en Costa Rica. Lectura: Animales fantásticos.
Video: La ingeniería ambiental. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: La
geografía. Conexiones culturales: La ecología.
13. ¿Es tu vida una telenovela?
OBJECTIVES: Talk about relationships. Talk about pop culture.
Express desires and give recommendations. Discuss emotional
reactions to events. VOCABULARY: Personal relations. Popular
culture. GRAMMAR: Reciprocal verbs. Present subjunctive with
expressions of desire. Present subjunctive with expressions of
emotion. Present subjunctive with adjective clauses. READING AND
VIDEO: Lectura: Tradiciones nupciales. Lectura: Las telenovelas.
Video: Productor. CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: El cortejo.
Conexiones culturales: De película.
14. ¿Qué haces en una emergencia?
OBJECTIVES: Discuss health issues with a doctor. Discuss
hypothetical situations. Express opinions regarding world issues.
Relate what had happened prior to other events in the past.
VOCABULARY: Health and medical emergencies. Countries and
nationalities. GRAMMAR: Conditional. Imperfect subjunctive.
Subjunctive with adverbs of time. Subjunctive with adverbs of
condition. Pluperfect. READING AND VIDEO: Lectura: El valor de la
salud. Lectura: Latinoamérica y la inmigración. Video: La medicina.
CULTURE: Conexiones culturales: El valor de la salud. Conexiones
culturales: Los países hispanos frente al futuro.
Appendices.
Maps and country profiles.
Vocabulary.
Dictionary.
Verb conjugations.
Margarita Casas was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She completed her bachelor's degree in sciences and techniques of communication in Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds two master's degrees from Colorado State University, one in Spanish literature with an emphasis on education, and the other in Teaching English as a Second Language. Currently, she is an instructor of Spanish at Linn-Benton Community College, where she served as Foreign Language Department chair for 11 years. She has collaborated on two textbooks prior to EXPLORACIONES and has published a novel, Italia En Cuatro Estaciones, winner of the first Literature contest of the Universidad de Guadalajara. She is an avid traveler who hopes to inspire her students to travel and see the world by themselves. Mary Ann Blitt began her Spanish studies at the age of 13 while living in Madrid, Spain. She received her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and after spending a year studying at the Universidad de Granada, she returned to the university to obtain a teaching certificate. She later attended Colorado State University, where she received her master's degree in Spanish with interdisciplinary studies in French. After teaching Spanish at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods in Kansas City, and coordinating the Study Abroad Program there for several years, she joined the faculty at College of Charleston in 2014. Mary Ann is actively involved in professional development workshops; she travels whenever possible; and she has studied in Spain, Mexico, France, and Canada. She also has trained teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Asuncion, Paraguay.
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