Sixty-four Spanish lessons for use in a televised beginning college Spanish program are presented in this text. Lessons include exercises, verb study, conversation, vocabulary development, and grammatical analysis. Fundamental to the course is the belief that mastery of grammar can only be achieved through conversation. As a consequence, lessons…

The contents of this course center on teenage activities. The structures presented are the "-a" verbs, "tener,""ser," and agreement of adjectives. Development of reading skills, sequential thinking, and testing of comprehension are emphasized. Performance objectives are prescribed for culture study, reading, speaking,…

Fifty-seven performance objectives are prescribed for this quinmester of Spanish instruction. Students are to develop basic conversational skills through various exercises, including character description, paragraph and sentence manipulation, vocabulary development, and classroom conversation. Composition exercises focus on writing descriptions,…

This is the first in a series of texts in a conversational Spanish course for elementary school children. Fifteen basic units present introductory linguistic patterns and cultural insights into the lives of Spaniards. They include: (1) Greetings, Identifications, and Farewells, (2) Some Classroom Objects and Instructions, (3) Colors, (4) More…

This is the third volume in a series of texts in a conversational Spanish course for elementary school children. Nine basic units present introductory linguistic patterns and cultural insights into the lives of the Spanish people. They include: (1) Review Unit 1, ("Cristobal Colon"), (2) Review Unit 2, (3) "Un Accidente,""La Navidad," and…

This is the second volume in a series of texts in a conversational Spanish course for elementary school children. Fourteen basic units present introductory linguistic patterns and cultural insights into the lives of the Spanish people. They include: (1) Review Unit 1, (2) Review Unit 2, (3) Special Unit A--"Cristobal Colon," (4) Review Unit 3, (5)…

This course is intended for students who have had some experience in the formal study of Spanish. Performance objectives emphasize development of listening, speaking, and reading skills. Conversation is directed to everyday teenage interests: school, friends, soccer, and clothes. Grammar exercises treating "ser" and "estar"…

Students in this course are expected to expand their aural-oral skills through practice with listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises. Performance objectives specify minimum competence to be attained in each of these areas. Structural exercises, including substitution and expansion drills, encompasses the contractions of "a"…

Designed to enable students of Spanish to communicate better with others, learning opportunities and performance objectives are provided which focus on the development of basic conversational skills. Students are given practice that will improve their ability to listen, interpret, and give oral information, directions and explanations, and…

The two primary performance objectives of this course in Spanish are to: (1) develop research skills which are directed toward locating useful facts and information about people, and (2) utilize previously learned grammatical concepts and skills to facilitate research and use of the library. Several literary works in Spanish are included in the…

Intended for students seeking to improve basic conversational skills in Spanish, this text provides for practice in following and giving directions orally, reading, and pronouncing "troublesome" words. Emphasis is placed on the development of listening skills, analysis of pseudo-prefixes and capital letters in a given paragraph, recognition of…

This course is intended for third- or fourth-year Spanish students seeking to review the essentials of Spanish grammar and to increase their vocabulary. It is specifically intended for those planning to take the College Board Achievement Test in Spanish. Performance objectives are prescribed for culture study, speaking, reading, and writing…

Fifty-nine performance objectives concerning the art of writing letters are presented in this Spanish instructional guide. Prescribed activities include oral presentation of historical topics, reading of selected letters and discussion and reading of short biographical data, punctuation exercises, review of grammar, and use of synonyms. (RL)

These Quinmester Program materials are intended for students developing the basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Performance Objectives are outlined and structural exercises treating "-e" and "-i" verbs,…

This manual contains eight Spanish lessons intended for classroom use in small, heterogeneous groups of no more than six children for a daily period of approximately 20 minutes. Lessons may be adapted for use in kindergarten, first, or second grade. Emphasis is placed on question-asking utterances to encourage information-seeking skills and to…