Spanish 203

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Spanish 203, the first semester of intermediate Spanish at UNC, takes as its departure a cultural orientation to Spanish. That is, instead of using a textbook that revolves around specific grammatical points, our book treats a different country in each of its chapters. As we move through the book, we'll review and develop our grammar and vocabulary, but we won't have specific "grammar days." We will use the communicative method to develop language skills in the four core areas: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.

N.B.: These documents are for class use only. They are also available on Blackboard, but I have put them here for backup. Occasionally the system goes down, requires mainteance, etc., and there is a slight chance of losing the BB course website.

Syllabus
For a copy of the syllabus, click here.

Guías
Course Contract
Resources For You
Quia
Metas Online Learning Center
Correction Code

Grading Rubrics
Composiciones
Entrevista oral
Participación

Tareas

Composiciones
Escritura en clase
Primera composición
Segunda composición
Handouts, taller de escritura

Entrevistas orales
Entrevista oral

Examenes
Mini-Test
Examen parcial (mid-term)
Examen final

Actividades (algunos de Internet)
Misiones
Encuesta: Actividad en clase
Inmigración

Information Gap Activities
Grupo 1: Antonio Machado
Grupo 2: Cesar Vallejo
Grupo 3: Pablo Picasso
Grupo 4: Antonio Machado
Todos los grupos
Salvador Dali
Jacobo Morales
Cristina García
Angeles Mastretta

Recursos adicionales
Canciones

Capítulo 1: España
Música española: Los gipsy kings
Check your answers to Bamboleo
Videoclip (ojo: esta versión no es la del remix)
Música española: Miguel Bosé
Check your answers to Miguel Bosé
Videoclip
Comparaciones, p. 8 Metas

Capítulo 2: El caribe
Salsa
Música cubana: Celia Cruz
Check your answers to Azúcar negra
Música cubana: Cocoband
Check your answers to Vete

Merengue
Música boricua: Olga Tañón
Check your answers to Olga Tañón
Video (en vivo, adonde la House of Blues)

Bachata
Música domincana: Monchy y Alexandra: Vuela vuela
Video de Aventura

Metas principales, p. 8
Hablar de los gustoso, comparaciones

Capítulo 3: México
Música mexicana: Natalia y la forquetina
Check your answers to en el 2000
Video de Natalia
Música mexicana: Café tacuba
Check your answers to Eres
Video de Café Tacuba

Handouts
Ser y estar (no listening section)
Ser y estar (with listening section)
Past and present participles
Definite and indefinite articles
Comparaciones
Recomendaciones
Narración en el pasado
Mandatos regulares e irregulares
Preposiciones
More preposition activities
Presente progresivo
Verbos irregulares
Vocabulario util

Teaching Position
For a statement on my beliefs about teaching, click here.

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