FLS 241 - Intermediate Spanish I
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
4 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 60
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course reviews the basic elements of the Spanish language. There is intensive practice in oral and listening comprehension by using different resources in structural manner. Authentic Spanish language texts, films, and videos serve as the basis for the functional study of grammar and the acquisition of a broader vocabulary. Cultural topics are presented throughout the term. This class will help the student to be prepared for a diverse workforce as well.
Prerequisites: FLS 142 - Elementary Spanish II or 2 years of high school Spanish or its equivalent.
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Express correctly ideas both written and oral communication in Spanish.
2. Use appropriate reading techniques to explore authentic material in the target language Spanish.
3. Apply the new vocabulary in both written and oral communication in Spanish.
4. Demonstrate a growing awareness of the influence of traditions and culture on a Hispanic population.
Objectives:
Chapter1: Sentir y vivir
Las relaciones personales
Cortometraje: Café para llevar
Imagina: Estados Unidos
Galería de Creadores: Álvarez, Gómez, Narciso Rodríguez.
Flash Cultura: Las relaciones personales
Estructuras: The present Tense, Ser and Estar, Gustar and similar verbs, Nouns and Articles, Adjectives.
Cultura: Corriente Latina, Cultura en pantalla: Hispanos e inmigración en los Estados Unidos
Literatura: Poema 20 (Pablo Neruda, Chile poesía)
Chapter 2: Vivir en la Ciudad
En la Ciudad
Cortometraje: Adiós mama
Imagina: México
Galería de Creadores: Gael García, Frida Kahlo, Poniatowsk
Flash Cultura: El metro del D.F.
Estructuras:The preterite, The imperfect, The preterite vs imperfect,Progressive Forms,Telling Time.
Cultura: Juchitán: La ciudad de las mujeres, Cultura en Pantalla: Mujeres triquis de Oaxaca
Literatura: Una lucha muy personal (Mercè Sarrias, España obra de teatro)
Chapter 3: Un mundo conectado
Los medios de comunicación
Cortometraje: Desconexión
Imagina: El Caribe: Cuba, Puerto Rico y la Republica Dominicana
Galería de Creadores: Julia de Burgos, Wilfredo Lam, Oscar
Flash Cultura: El Cine Mexicano
Estructuras: The Subjunctive in noun clauses, Object Pronouns, Commands, Possessive,
adjectives and nouns, Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Cultura: Ritmos del Caribe
Cultura en pantalla: Festival del merengue en la Republica Dominicana
Literatura: La desesperación de las letras (Gines S. Cutillas, España)
Chapter 4: Generaciones en movimiento
En familia
Cortometraje: Sin palabras
Imagina: Centroamérica: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá
Galería de creadores: Gioconda Belli, Armando Morales, Camilo Miner
Flash Cultura: De compras en Barcelona
Estructuras: The Subjunctive in adjective clauses, Reflexive verbs, Por and para, To become:
hacerse, ponerse, volverse and llegar a ser
Cultura: Sonia Sotomayor: la niña que sonaba
Cultura en pantalla: Sonia Sotomayor habla sobre su condición latina
Literatura: El eclipse (Augusto Monterroso, Guatemala cuento)
Chapter 5: Las riquezas naturales
Nuestro mundo
Cortometraje: Raíz
Imagina: Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela
Galería de creadores: Marisol Escobar, Gabriel García Márquez, Oswaldo G
Flash cultura: un bosque natural
Estructuras: The future, The conditional, Relative Pronouns, Qué vs cuál, The neuter lo
Cultura: La selva amazónica: biodiversidad curative y Plantas medicinales
Literatura: La luna (Jaime Sabines, México poesía)
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