<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>I'm graduating in the summer, and my LAST class left is to fulfill the foreigh lang requirement. I plan on taking Spanish 3 P/NP, and was wondering how easy/hard it is to get a "Pass" (C) in Spanish 3.. I've taken up to Spanish 3, but that was in high school.. before class starts I'm planning on reading my spanish textbook to get re-aquanted with some vocab (I know present/past/imperfect conjugations).</p>
<p>What are some topics in Span 3?</p>
<p>If you know present, past, future, and the imperfects and are fine with oral and listening, you will get a C easily in Spanish 3. Spanish 3 mainly focuses on subjunctive. You also need to know a decent amount of vocab before Spanish 3.</p>
<p>i.e. numbers, dates, furniture, food, buildings, transportation, time, sports, weather, etc.</p>
<p>eek. oral? this is going to suck. </p>
<p>what was the book used for spanish 1 -3? was it a “bundle” (same book used for all course).</p>
<p>^ That’s right.</p>
<p>It’s okay, you have some time to practice your oral. You will have 2 oral exams throughout the quarter. They are done in a group and it lasts 5 minutes or so. They’re usually improvised (sorta), but you have a theme to study a few days before.</p>
<p>i.e. Your theme is “Fiesta.” That means you need to be prepared to talk about things like, who you will invite, what food will you eat, what games will be there, etc. On the day of the exam, you will be give the ACTUAL prompt and will have 10 minutes to prepare with your group. Then you present. It’s done in a private session at a time in classroom. One group waits outside until the other is finished.</p>
<p>So they’ll let us know the theme ahead of time (so we can study certain vocab words, etc), but the prompt we get the same day?</p>
<p>Also, do you remember the book name used?</p>
<p>I don’t remember the book’s name, but it’s not very big and it’s blue and yellow. Ask the textbook store.</p>
<p>Okay it’s like this. If I recall correctly, you go over 5 chapters per quarter. In Spanish 3, it’s a continuation of the same book used in Spanish 1 and 2, so you start at chapter 11, which is probably about cars and buses and trains. You’ll study about 2 or 3 chapters and then the midterm comes. The midterm has a written, listening, reading, and oral part. The oral part is conducted separately on a whole different day. You only need to know the vocab in the chapters being covered, but you also have to utilize words learned from Spanish 1 and 2.</p>
<p>So if your chap 11-13 is about transportation, taking a vacation, and shopping, you have to not only memorize those verbs and words in those chapters, but utilize the words in previous chapters. I mean, how can you talk about when the bus is coming if you don’t know how to tell time in Spanish? Know what I mean? You’ll just get a general theme to prepare a week in advance, but you won’t get the exact prompt with its specific questions until the day of and until 10 minutes before you perform. That’s why it’s kinda like improv. You can’t script it, but you can have a general feel of what you’ll be talking about.</p>