8th+Spanish+I

Textbook: ¡Exprésate! Spanish 1 ISBN: 0-03-074146-7 by Humbach, Velasco, Chiquito, Smith, and McMinn

Course Overview: This course includes a variety of activities that will help you gain a basic understanding of the Spanish language and some of the people who speak it. Our class will focus on teaching you Spanish vocabulary, communication skills, and how to develop your ideas using complete sentences in both the present and preterite tenses. Daily work, assessments, and projects will put your acquired knowledge to use.

Aside from basic grammar and vocabulary skills, we will also explore the following questions: • What kind of practices and traditions do different Spanish speakers have? • How does the Spanish language relate to the world around me? • What can I do to integrate the Spanish language in the communities I am a part of? • How does the Spanish language relate to the language I speak?

Schedule: • Subjects, verbs, and subject pronouns • Numbers: 0-31 • The alphabet • The verb ser • Punctuation marks and written accents
 * Unit 1: Getting Started**

• ser with adjectives • gender and adjective agreement • questions • nouns and definite articles • gustar • ¿por qué? and porque • the preposition de
 * Unit 2: Getting to know each other**

• gustar with infinitives • pronouns after prepositions • querer with infinitives • regular -ar verbs • ir and jugar • los with days of the week • weather expressions
 * Unit 3: Things we like to do**

• indefinite articles, ¿cuánto?, mucho, and poco • tener and some tener idioms • venir and a la/las with time • ir a with infinitives • regular and irregular -er and -ir verbs • tag questions
 * Unit 4: School life**

• possessive adjectives • stem-changing verbs: almorzar, dormir, volver, merendar, entender, and empezar • estar with prepositions • negation with nunca, tampoco, nada, and nadie • tocar and parecer
 * Unit 5: At home and family**

• ser and estar • pedir, servir, preferir, poder, and probar • direct objects and direct object pronouns • affirmative informal commands with pronouns
 * Unit 6: Food**

• verbs with reflexive pronouns • infinitives • stem-changing verbs • estar, sentirse, and tener • negative informal commands • object and reflexive pronouns with commands
 * Unit 7: Healthy body, healthy mind**

• costar and numbers to one million • demonstrative adjectives and comparisons • quedar • preterite of -ar verbs • preterite of ir
 * Unit 8: Shopping**

• preterite of -ar, -er, and -ir verbs • pensar que and pensar with infinitives • direct object pronouns • conocer and personal a • present progressive
 * Unit 9: Celebrations**

• preterite of regular verbs • preterite of -car, -gar, -zar verbs • preterite of hacer • informal commands of spelling-change and irregular verbs • direct object pronouns • verbs followed by infinitives
 * Unit 10: Travels/Vacationing**