Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New Language

Topic Subtopic Literature & Language Language Learning Learning Spanish How to Understand and Speak a New Language Course Workbook Professor Bill Worden The University of Alabama PUBLISHED BY: THE GREAT COURSES Corporate Headquarters 4840 Westfields Boulevard, Suite 500 Chantilly, Virginia 20151-2299 Phone: 1-800-832-2412 Fax: 703-378-3819 www.thegreatcourses.com Copyright © The Teaching Company, 2015 Printed in the United States of America This book is in copyright. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of The Teaching Company. Bill Worden, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Spanish Director of Spanish Programs The University of Alabama r. Bill Worden is an Associate Professor of Spanish and the Director of Spanish Programs in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics Dat The University of Alabama. Dr. Worden received his A.B. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1985 and subsequently taught high school Spanish for five years in Illinois and Massachusetts. After studying in both Vermont and Madrid, he received his M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1996. As a doctoral student at Brown University, Dr. Worden was awarded the David and Ruth Kossoff Prize for Leadership in Language Teaching by the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Graduate School. He also was chosen by fellow graduate students to give the address at the Graduate School commencement ceremony. In 2002, Dr. Worden received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown. Since 2002, Dr. Worden has taught a wide variety of courses at The University of Alabama, ranging from Introductory Spanish and Advanced Grammar and Composition to undergraduate and graduate courses in 16th- and 17th-century Spanish literature. He has directed doctoral dissertations on colonial Latin American literature, early modern Spanish literature, and 20th-century Latin American literature. Dr. Worden’s main area of research is the work of Miguel de Cervantes, especially his novel Don Quixote. Dr. Worden has published in the fields of early modern Spanish literature, colonial Cuban theater, and 19th-century Spanish literature. He also has published on pedagogical topics, including how to teach Spanish at the middle school and high school levels and how to help undergraduate students make connections to Don Quixote. In addition, Dr. Worden is an award-winning speaker who has lectured on such subjects as the prose of Cervantes, early modern Spanish poetry, and approaches for helping beginning language students become comfortable speaking Spanish. For a number of years, Dr. Worden served The University of Alabama’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics as the Director of the Spanish Language Program and was responsible for supervising all graduate teaching assistants and instructors of introductory- and intermediate-level Spanish courses. In 2013, the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers selected Dr. Worden as the winner of the annual Outstanding Foreign Language Teacher Award for Postsecondary. ■ Dr. Laura Rojas-Arce, author of the workbook and coauthor of the speaking activities, grew up in Costa Rica, where she studied psychology as an undergraduate student at the Universidad Hispanoamericana in Heredia. She completed her doctoral studies with a focus on contemporary Central American literature and received her Ph.D. from The University of Alabama in 2013. Dr. Rojas-Arce is an Instructor of Spanish at The University of Alabama, where she teaches courses ranging from Introductory Spanish and Advanced Grammar and Composition to courses on Latin American literature. ■ i Table of Contents Professor Biography �� i Scope ...........................................................................................................................................................1 Workbook Introduction ..................................................................................................................................2 Workbook Families .......................................................................................................................................3 Lesson Guides LESSON 1 Introduction to the Spanish Language ..........................................................................................................4 LESSON 2 Definite Articles and Nouns ........................................................................................................................10 LESSON 3 Subject Pronouns and the Verb Ser ��15 LESSON 4 Regular -ar Verbs in the Present ................................................................................................................21 LESSON 5 Indefinite Articles and Numbers to 100 ��27 LESSON 6 The Verb Estar and Numbers over 100 ��33 LESSON 7 Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Present .....................................................................................................39 LESSON 8 The Verb Ir in the Present...........................................................................................................................46 LESSON 9 Expressing Time in Spanish .......................................................................................................................52 LESSON 10 Expressions Using the Verb Tener ��59 LESSON 11 Verbs like Hacer and Interrogative Words ��66 LESSON 12 The Verbs Saber and Conocer ��72 LESSON 13 Stem-Changing Verbs ................................................................................................................................78 ii Table of Contents LESSON 14 Ver, Dar, and Other Irregular Verbs ............................................................................................................83 LESSON 15 The Present Progressive ��89 LESSON 16 Direct Object Pronouns and Adverbs .........................................................................................................95 LESSON 17 Affirmatives, Negatives, and Demonstratives ...........................................................................................101 LESSON 18 More Affirmative and Negative Expressions ............................................................................................106 LESSON 19 Indirect Object Pronouns ��111 LESSON 20 Double Object Pronouns .......................................................................................................................... 116 LESSON 21 Reflexive Verbs.........................................................................................................................................122 LESSON 22 Talking about the Past: Acabar and Hace ��128 LESSON 23 Talking about the Past: ¿Desde Cuándo…? ............................................................................................133 LESSON 24 Formal Commands and Unequal Comparisons ��138 LESSON 25 Informal Commands ��142 LESSON 26 Superlatives and Equal Comparisons ��149 LESSON 27 Regular -ar Verbs in the Preterite .............................................................................................................153 LESSON 28 Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Preterite ..................................................................................................157 LESSON 29 Irregular Verbs in the Preterite..................................................................................................................162 LESSON 30 Next Steps in Improving Your Spanish .....................................................................................................166 iii Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New Language Supplemental Material Grammar Reference .................................................................................................................................172 Los glosarios / The Glossaries ................................................................................................................178

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