Spanish Vocabulary: Sports, Travel, and the Home
University of California, Davis
In this course, you will continue to build upon the basics in the first two courses of the specialization and continue to learn conversational Spanish in three themed modules: talking about sports and pastimes, talking about travel, and talking about home living arrangements.
About this Course
¡Bienvenidos! Ready for the big game? Building on the vocabulary and skills that you have already mastered, this third course of the specialization will introduce new vocabulary that will prepare you to discuss sports, pastimes and politics -- important cultural elements of the Spanish-speaking world. You’ll also add new vocabulary relating to travel and living arrangements. This course also introduces the progressive tense and past tense and you will add to your vocabulary of helping verbs.
What You'll Learn
- Discuss sports and pastimes using basic vocabulary, practice talking about trips using basic travel-related vocabulary, and discuss living arrangements using new vocabulary
- Talk about ongoing events using the grammatical construction estar + present participle (ndo)
- Use helping verbs with the present participle (ir, venir, ando, seguir, continuar)
- Use the expression hace + time + present tense with activities that have been going on for some time
- Use the preterite past tense to refer to actions completed in the past
- Choose the appropriate adverb to describe past actions
- Compare and contrast the use of the preterite and imperfect past tenses
- Produce irregular preterite tense verb conjugations
Instructors
Dr. Robert Blake
Professor & Director