Spanish 1001 Prof.

Camilo Galeano
Course policies and procedures. Our text is: Blanco, J. & Redwine, P. (2013) Panorama. Introduccin a la lengua espaola (Fourth Edition). Boston: Vista Higher Learning Publishing. Its important that you all understand that you all should have this text or its digital version: all practices, exercises, and even exams are based on its content. Our objectives: - To understand basic writing in Spanish - To recognize the sounds of vowells and consonants while listening to an audiotext. - To produce small texts in Spanish with propper grammatics. The main deadlines of our class are listed on the sillabus, however I strongly recommend that you attend all your dues for online activities because they represent a significant percentage on your final grade. Well see about that later. Attendances: - Its your responsability to attend all the clases. Theres a minimun of absences, wether excused or unexcused, allowed: 5 classes. - If youre planning have more absences, be warned: after that, theres a drop of 3% in your final grade for each absence thereafter. - If you miss more tan 10 classes, withdrawing from the course is strongly recommended. Grading: - Chapter exams: 30% - Oral assesment & exam: 10% - Tests: 15% - Participation: 10% - Homework: 10% - Compositions: 10% - Final exam: 15% You must pass this course with a D- or higher to be able to move to the next course. Any questions regarding Spanish Program Policies, should be directed to Nuria LpezOrtega.

Sample lesson. Ok! Weve gone through the alphabet, now its time to explain a couple of special uses for the consonants G and Q. What words in Spanish do we know with those consonants? Whats the difference between the g we use in guerra and the g we use in gato? Lets see: GA TO GO TA GUS TO Listen to the different sounds we make! The vocal U in guerra and guinda remains silent to produce the same sound g would produce in gato or gota. Q is a completely different case: in Spanish it can never sound without the correspondent silent U, and it only Works with e and i. Therefore, this will always be wrong: qa, qe, qi, qo or even qu (when trying to make it sound like cu); qua and quo will also be wrong. The only right we can make with q is: que and qui. QUE SO QUIN CE QUE RTARO A QU A QUE LLA QUI CIO GE RENTE GI TANO GUE RRA GUIN DA