Course Description: Spanish 1 (first-year Spanish, first semester) is a communicative beginning-level web-based Spanish course. Students will begin to develop their Spanish proficiency through extensive interaction in the target language. Each unit begins with a video dramatization that introduces the functions, vocabulary, and grammar targeted in the unit.

Through videos, students see and hear native speakers in authentic locations around the Spanish-speaking world. Each unit includes numerous interactive activities, cultural notes, and cultural interviews. The activities build competency in each of the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will be able to record and listen to their voices at any time as well as send audio files to their teacher for assessment.

The textbook, ¡Ven conmigo!, offers students an opportunity to practice and study the language away from the computer as well as a Spanish-English glossary of all the words used in the course. ¡Ven conmigo! will also be used by students in the Web-based Spanish 2 course (first-year Spanish, second semester).

Course Contents:
Students will learn:

• To say hello and good-bye, introduce people and respond to an introduction, and ask how someone is and say how they are.
• To ask and say how old someone is, ask where someone is from and say where they are from, and say the numbers 1-100.
• To talk about likes and dislikes.
• To talk about what they want and need and how to make nouns plural.
• To describe the contents of their room.
• To talk about what they need and want to do.
• To talk about class schedules and sequencing events and tell time.
• To tell at what time something happens and talk about being late or in a hurry.
• To describe people and things and talk about things they like and explain why.
• To talk about what they like to do, discuss what they and others do during free time, and conjugate the present tense of regular -arverbs.
• To tell where people and things are, conjugate the verb estar(to be), and to use subject pronouns.
• To talk about where they and others go during free time, conjugate the verb ir(to go), and say the days of the week.
• To discuss how often they do things.
• To talk about what they and their friends like to do together, talk about what they do during a typical week, and conjugate the present tense of regular -erand -irverbs.
• To give today's date and talk about the weather, months, and seasons.
• To describe a family and use all of the possessive adjectives.
• To describe people, discuss things a family does together, and use the personal a.
• To discuss problems and give advice using the verb deber.
• About the people, land, and cultures of Spain and Mexico.

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