Your First Exam Will Consist of the Following Sections

Study guide

Spanish 204, Exam 1, Spring 2010

Your first exam will consist of the following sections:

1. Listening

May be multiple choice, fill in the blanks, short answer, and/or true and false. For MWF classes ONLY, this section will be done on the day after the written part of the exam. Your instructor will read a passage that you have not read or heard before. The passage will be read twice and cannot be repeated after that. You will be shown a list of questions before the passage is read and given time to read through them before your instructor begins to read out loud. You may be asked to use your own sheet of paper to submit your answers.

2. Vocabulary

Study all the active vocabulary from chapters 4A (168-169)and 4B (191-192). For this section, it may not be enough just to choose the correct word. You may be asked to modify the word to fit specific grammatical structures or other sentence requirements.

3. A specific Meta comunicativa.

This section will be more like a traditional grammar exam section where you have to use one specific grammar point from our list of seven Metas: Descripción, Comparación, Reacciones y Recomendaciones, Narrción en el pasado, Hablar de los gustos, Hacer hipótesis, and Hablar del futuro. (For this first exam, you will be using the gustar verb structure).

4. Reading

You will be asked to read a passage that you have never seen before, then answer questions based on that reading.

5. Essay

Each instructor will provide one or two questions. If two are provided you will choose one to answer. Here is where you may be asked to incorporate information from the readings in the text. The question may be worded to allow you to provide specific details from the readings on culture, history, and politics, but you will have some freedom to choose what information to include or exclude. Here is where you put together everything you have learned, so content and grammar count. Avoid vague, generalizing statements such as "Es interesante" as your complete sentence, or "Hay muchos tipos de X" without naming some of the types of X. Make sure each of your sentences contains some specific, accurate information. Your instructor may ask you to use some specific metas or all of them: describir, comparar, recomendar (y reaccionar), narrar en el pasado, hablar de los gustos, hablar del futuro, y hacer hipótesis.