Offered: Summer Session I (June 18 – July 13, 2012) and II (July 16 – August 10, 2012)
Prerequisite: Spanish II

This course is designed for the student who wishes to review and reinforce the oral, aural, writing and reading skills introduced in Spanish II.   Particular attention will be paid to the grammar and verb tenses including the use of irregular present tense conjugations, the past tense, direct and indirect object pronouns, conditional sentences and the subjunctive.   Student work will include:

• Individual study and review of verb forms, vocabulary and grammar structures at home
• Individual online activities and homework required for the course
• Asynchronous interactive activities throughout each week that will require students to write or record messages and respond to other students in the course
• One or two synchronous activities that will require a student to interact in real time with another student or the instructor
• Weekly assessments to allow students and the instructor to gauge progress before moving on to new material

Note to students and parents:  Work for this course is designed as weekly units to be completed before moving on to the next week’s topics.  There are deadlines for work throughout each week.  While much of the work is designed to be asynchronous, this is a class and students will be required to complete interactive activities each week as a part of the course.

Topics of study to be covered each week:

Week 1: 
Vocabulary:  school, family, activities, daily routine, days, dates, schedule
Present tense of verbs (regular, irregular, stem-changing verbs, reflexives)
Ser v estar
Direct and indirect object pronouns

Week 2:
Vocabulary:  Health and parts of the body, technology (electronics and basics of the automobile), home and chores
Preterite tense of verbs (regular, irregular, stem-changing)
Imperfect of verbs
Preterite vs. Imperfect
Por vs. Para

Week 3:
Vocabulary:  Nature and the environment, city life, wellness
More practice with preterite v imperfect
Present perfect and past perfect
Commands (formal and informal)

Week 4:
Vocabulary:  Work and professions, art, current events
Present subjunctive—forms and uses
Present perfect subjunctive
Imperfect subjunctive
Conditional tense
Si clauses