Español II-Spanish II is a continuation of the study that began in Spanish I with a stronger emphasis on speaking.  Students will be expected to use Spanish on a daily basis with the teacher and other students.

Students will be introduced to the following vocabulary and grammar:

Meeting Personal Needs:

• food pyramid groups
• buying food
• preparing food
• restaurant
• clothing (expanded)
• shopping/bargaining
• body parts (expanded)
• health
• telephone expressions
• daily routine

School and Education:

• educational words (expanded)
• computer hardware and basic computer operating terms

Leisure Time:

• weather (expanded)
• pastimes (expanded)
• sports (expanded)

The World:

• major geographical names
• the 7 continents
• names of major world countries
• nature and the environment
• geography-names of water and names of land

Family and Home:

• All level I (expanded)
• nationalities
• basic furniture and household items
• household chores

Travel and Transportation:

• parts of a city
• methods of transportation
• expressions for driving and basic parts of a car
• directions
• travel expressions
• the hotel

Nouns and Articles:

• omission of articles
• irregular genders

Adjectives:

• comparitive and superlative
• the suffix -ísimo
• cardinal numbers above 199
• demonstrative
• possessive
• adjectives of quantity

Verbs:

• present
• preterit
• imperfect
• preterit vs. imperfect
• future
• present perfect
• commands
• conocer vs. saber

Adverbs:

• the suffix -mente
• negative words

Pronouns:

• indirect object
• interrogative
• demonstrative
• reflexive
• prepositional

Prepositions:

• compound prepositions

Conjuctions:

• pero vs. sino