Spanish III (Period 6)

Spanish III is the culmination of a three year course sequence and it is designed for students who have knowledge of grammatical structures and verbal tenses. This course prepares students for Spanish IV and AP Spanish IV Language. The course outline is as follows:

Capítulo 1: ¡Adiós al verano!
Location: Castilla-La Mancha
• Vocabulary: Vacation activities and destinations; weather
• Functions: Talking about the past, saying what you liked and used to do; asking for and giving advice, asking about the future
• Grammar: Preterite and imperfect. Ser and estar. Subjunctive Mood. Pronouns. Comparisons, demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns. Negarive words and time constructions
• Culture: Geography, culture and folklore of Castilla-La Mancha. Comparaciones: summer trips. Comunidad: Spanish-speaking tourist in U.S.

Capítulo 2: ¡A pasarlo bien!
Location: Castilla-La Mancha
• Vocabulary: Pastimes and sports. Friendships and relationships. Adjectives to describe friends
• Functions: Expressing interest and displeasure. Inviting someone to do something and responding. Describing the ideal friend. Expressing happiness and unhappiness
• Grammar: Imperfect. Ir a + infinitive in the imperfect. Nosotros commands. Object pronouns. Subjunctive with the unknown or nonexistent. Subjunctive with feelings
• Culture: Hiking in Spain. El jai-alai. Comparaciones: friendships. Comunidad: Television programming in Spanish.

Capítulo 3: Todo tiene solución
Location: El Caribe
• Vocabulary: Attitudes and opinions. School courses. Relationship problems and solutions
• Functions: Complaining. Expressing an opinion and disagreeing. Making suggestions. Apologizing
• Grammar: Verb + infinitive. Subjunctive with wish or will. Subjunctive with negation or denial. Future tense. Conditional.
• Culture: Schools in Puerto Rico and Cuba. Comparaciones: Family conflicts. Comunidad: Spanish at U.S. universities.

Capítulo 4: Entre familia
Location: El Caribe
• Vocabulary: family members, relationships and events. Foods
• Functions: Asking about and respond to the latest news. Reacting to news. Commenting on food. Explaining and giving excuses.
• Grammar: Present progressive. Present perfect indicative. Present perfect subjunctive. Preterite. Se + indirect object pronouns. Past progressive
• Culture: Caribbean family ties. Weddings in Latin America. Comparaciones: Keeping in touch with relatives. Comunidad: Imported food in the U.S.

Capítulo 5: El arte y la música
Location: El Suroeste y el Norte de México
• Vocabulary: Arts and architecture. Music and dramatic arts. Adjectives to describe arts
• Functions: Asking for and giving opinions. Introducing and changing a topic of conversation. Making suggestions and recommendations. Inviting someone to do something and turning down an invitation.
• Grammar: Comparatives of equality and superlatives. Passive se and impersonal se. Passive voice with ser. Subjunctive with wishes, suggestions and recommendations. Past perfect
• Culture: Spanish influence in Mexican architecture. Comparaciones: Art and architecture in Mexico and Costa Rica. Comunidad: Hispanic art in the U.S.

Capítulo 6: ¡Ponte al día!
Location: El Suroeste y el Norte de México
• Vocabulary: Electronic media terms. Activities to describe media. Print media terms
• Functions: Expressing certainty, doubt and disbelieve. Asking about information and explaining where you found it. Talking about what you know and what you don’t know
• Grammar: Indicative after expression of certainty. Subjunctive after expression of doubt and disbelieve. Uses of haber. Indefinite expressions. Gender of nouns. Indicative in compound sentences.
• Culture: Programs in Spanish. Latin American news. Comparaciones: Means of communication. Comunidad: Spanish Language news programming.

Capítulo 7: Mis aspiraciones
Location: Los Andes, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia
• Vocabulary: Challenges and cultural heritage. Hopes and plans
• Functions: Talking about challenges and accomplishments. Talking about future plans. Expressing cause and effect
• Grammar: Preterite and imperfect of stative verbs. Grammatical reflexives. Lo and lo que, Subjunctive after adverbial conjunctions. Indicative with habitual or past actions
• Culture: Indigenous words. Otavalo. Comparaciones: Future Plans. Comunidad: Hispanics in the U.S.

Capítulo 8: ¿A qué te dedicas?
Location: Los Andes, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia
• Vocabulary: Jobs and business terms. Volunteerism. Technology. Professions. Workplace terms
• Functions: saying what you can and cannot do. Talking abut what you do and do not understand. Writing a formal letter. Talking about your plans
• Grammar: verbs with indirect object pronouns. Verbs that express “to become”. Uses of se. Conditional. Past subjunctive with hypothetical statements. Past subjunctive with past tense
• Culture: Business hours. Internet in Peru. Comparaciones: using technology. Comunidad: Hispanics in the business world.

Capítulo 9: Huellas del pasado
Location: El Cono Sur
• Vocabulary: Legends, folk tales and fairy tales. Historical events
• Functions: Setting the scene for a story. Continuing and ending a story. Talking about your hopes and wishes. Expressing regret and gratitude
• Grammar: Preterite and imperfect in story telling. Preterite and imperfect contrasted. Por and para. Uses of the subjunctive, Sequence of tenses
• Culture: Indigenous peoples in Argentina. Iguazú National Park. Comparaciones: Legends. Comunidad: Spanish explorers and U.S. place names.

Capítulo 10: El mundo en que vivimos
Location: El Cono Sur
• Vocabulary: Natural disasters. Environment
• Functions: Talking about a past event. Expressing and supporting a point of view. Making predictions and giving warnings. Expressing assumptions
• Grammar: Present and past progressive. Haber. Expressions of time. Future tense. Subjunctive with boubt, denial and feelings. Subjunctive and indicative with adverbial clauses.
• Culture: Argentina’s economy. Buenos aires. Natural disasters in Chile. Comparaciones: Experiencing historical events. Comunidad: the use of pesticides in Latin America.