Practice Makes Perfect Beginning Spanish

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Contents

Preface

1   Finding your way around • Hay

2   Describing places and things • Adjectives

3   Talking about nationalities and professions, food, and films • Ser

4   Describing people, emotions, and health • Ser and estar

5   Talking about work and travel • Ir and hacer

6   Talking about what you need and what you know; shopping and cooking • Tener, saber, and conocer

7   Entertaining at home • Tener

8   Your daily routine • Reflexive verbs

9   Talking about trips; your likes and dislikes • The preterit

10   Talking about your childhood • The imperfect

11   Health and accidents • The imperfect and the preterit

12   At school and the office • Comparatives and superlatives

13   Business and the cost of living • The present perfect and the past perfect

14   Giving and following directions • The imperative

15   Plans for the holidays • The future and the conditional

16   Talking about relationships; expressing emotions and making judgments • The present subjunctive

Appendix: Grammar summaries

Answer key

Preface

Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish is a comprehensive, user-friendly program that provides extensive audio practice to introduce and reinforce the basic structures of Spanish. The program corresponds to one to two semesters of class-based instruction. It is designed for beginning learners of Spanish who want to master the basic structural patterns of the language and acquire a broad vocabulary that will be useful in communicating with native speakers of Spanish on a wide variety of topics. Dialogues and exercises reflect authentic, current language usage and touch on all areas of modern life including business and technology.

Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish is different in its design and conception from other language courses. It takes full advantage of the pedagogical potential of electronic media to deliver the content of the course both orally and in writing. It allows you instant access to all the material of the course, such as grammar explanations and vocabulary, so that you can customize your learning as you see fit.

The interactive features will motivate you and facilitate your mastery of the material. The program is outstanding for its accessibility and portability, which means you can practice Spanish at your convenience and go at your own pace.

Structure and components

Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish is comprised of sixteen lessons, all structured in the same way. Each chapter opens with a list of the grammar points to be presented and practiced followed by Communication goals, which present the chapter’s objectives for desired learner achievement.

Diálogos

Introductory diálogos present new vocabulary and grammatical structures targeted in the chapter. Each diálogo contains two to four exchanges. There are between four and nineteen diálogos in each chapter. Learners have instant access to both the written text of each diálogo and a recording of it done by native speakers with pauses for repetition. The diálogos offer delightful snatches of conversation in authentic settings. You meet real-life people at work and school, traveling, talking about their family and relationships, shopping, restaurants, entertainment, their daily routine, health, holidays, business and the cost of living, and their life goals. These meaningful conversational exchanges help you develop both competence and confidence in speaking and understanding Spanish.

Análisis

Linked to each diálogo, the análisis provides a linguistic breakdown of the new material in each of the sentences of the diálogo and is accessible via links (Grammar notes) for your reference as you practice the diálogos.

Variantes

This section expands the grammatical structures presented in the diálogos and presents new structures based on the material presented in the diálogos. The structures and new vocabulary related to the theme of each diálogo are presented in patterned sentences in a meaningful context. Like the diálogos, this material is also available to learners in both written and recorded form.

Grammar file (grammar notes)

The Grammar file contains the explanations of all the grammar topics presented in the course. All the grammatical information is accessible through links strategically placed in the análisis and variantes so that learners can reference linguistic explanations as they need them.

Práctica

A hallmark of this program is the vast amount of systematic oral practice provided for learners so that they can master the structures of Spanish and use them with confidence.

Vocabulary

Learners have instant access to an electronic Spanish-English word list containing all the words introduced in the course. Each word has a reference number to the chapter in which it first appears.

Listening for key contrasts

These drills target some of the most important sound contrasts in the Spanish verb system. They will help you distinguish verb endings that may sound similar to English-speakers but are very different in meaning. Mastery of these sound distinctions will facilitate your comprehension of Spanish and your ability to make yourself understood in the language.

Workbook

This volume gives learners additional written practice in the grammatical structures and vocabulary of each chapter. It includes an answer key to facilitate self-study and verb charts for reference. It also contains the complete text of the Grammar Notes so that you can study when away from your computer.

You will be delighted to see how much you understand and can say in Spanish after you have worked through the Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish program. For more practice, reinforcement, and progress we recommend that you use our acclaimed The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice: Mastering Spanish Grammar for Confident Communication, now in its second edition.

Ronni L. Gordon, Ph.D.

David M. Stillman, Ph.D.

•1•

Finding your way around • Hay

The following exercises provide written practice to reinforce your understanding of the corresponding audio.

Diálogos, análisis, variantes

  1.1 ¿Qué hay en la caja?

  1.2 Hay dos farmacias

  1.3 ¿Hay un cibercafé por aquí?

  1.4 El centro comercial

Contents

  hay there is, there are

  nouns and articles

  compound nouns

  ser to be: third-person singular

  negative sentences

  question formation: information questions, yes/no questions

  numbers 1-20

Communication goals

  Asking for directions in a Spanish-speaking city

  Finding stores in the city

  Giving gifts

  Vocabulary: stores, everyday items, numbers

EJERCICIO 1.1

Nouns and articles. Write the correct definite and indefinite article for each noun.

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EJERCICIO 1.2

Write the plural form of each noun with its corresponding definite and indefinite article.

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EJERCICIO 1.3

Translation: Las tiendas. Write the name of each store or office in Spanish. Then write the plural form of each one

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EJERCICIO 1.4

Preguntas (Questions). Write questions using the strings of elements

1. hay/en el armario/qué

2. regalo/es/un

3. una/por aquí/heladería/hay

4. tiendas/hay/qué

5. un/cibercafé/es

6. en la esquina/dos/zapaterías/hay

7. hay/el estante/qué/en/libros

8. el centro/tienda de cómputo/en/una/hay

EJERCICIO 1.5

No. Answer each of these questions negatively.

1. ¿Es una agenda electrónica?

2. ¿Hay quince libros en el estante?

3. ¿El reloj es para Carlos?

4. ¿Hay una tienda de deportes en el centro comercial?

5. ¿Es un regalo para Rosario?

6. ¿Hay ropa en la maleta?

7. ¿Hay un cartapacio en la oficina?

8. ¿La computadora es para Mario?

EJERCICIO 1.6

¿Qué hay en la caja? Tell what gift is in each box using es and the noun with its corresponding indefinite article

1. billetero                 ___________________

2. cartera                   ___________________

3. reloj                           ___________________

4. agenda electrónica     ___________________

5. bolso                       ___________________

6. cámara                   ___________________

7. iPod                        ___________________

8. cartapacio               ___________________

EJERCICIO 1.7

El regalo no es para Eduardo. Write sentences stating that the gifts mentioned here are not for the person named in the first cue but rather for the person named in the second cue.

1. billetero/José/Juan

2. cartera/Matilde/Julia

3. reloj/Jorge/Alberto

4. agenda electrónica/Lorenzo/Nora

5. bolso/Rosa/Margarita

6. cámara/Luz/Daniel

7. iPod/Susana/Guillermo

8. cartapacio/Carlos/Roberto

EJERCICIO 1.8

Los números 1-20 Express the noun phrases in Spanish. Write out the numbers.

1. 1 computer                 ________________

2. 2 shoe stores              ________________

3. 3 watches                   ________________

4. 4 suitcases                 ________________

5. 5 movie theaters         ________________

6. 6 tourist offices           ________________

7. 7 hotels                       ________________

8. 8 gifts                          ________________

9. 9 cameras                    ________________

10. 10 ice cream stores      ________________

11. 11 boxes                      ________________

12. 12 Internet cafés          ________________

13. 13 backpacks               ________________

14. 14 telephones              ________________

15. 15 shelves                     ________________

16. 16 supermarkets          ________________

17. 17 beauty parlors         ________________

18. 18 department stores   ________________

19. 19 packages                 ________________

20. 20 sports                     ________________

•2•

Describing places and things • Adjectives

The following exercises provide written practice to reinforce your understanding of the corresponding audio.

Diálogos, análisis, variantes

  2.1 ¿Cómo es el hotel?

  2.2 Las calles del centro

  2.3 ¿De qué color es tu carro?

  2.4 ¿Qué hay en el maletín?

  2.5 Mis libros

Contents

  adjectives: agreement, position

  possessive adjectives

  contraction del

  ser to be: third-person plural

  question formation: yes/no questions

Communication goals

  Describing places and things

  Asking about hotel accommodations

  Indicating possession

  Vocabulary: colors, academic subjects, houses and hotels, qualities and attributes of things

EJERCICIO 2·1

También (gender of nouns) Write sentences in which the noun asked about has the same quality as the noun in the original sentence.