Spanish 201

When you have completed Spanish 201: Spanish for Beginners II, you should be able, in oral and written expressions, to

1. participate in simple conversations on such topics as family, the weather, food, travel, business, and economy.
2. express obligations, wishes, opinions, and actions in the subjunctive mood as well as in the near future.
3. ask simple questions and respond to straightforward requests in all simple tenses of the indicative mood: present, pretérite, imperfect, conditional, and future, both simple and perfect tenses.
4. express likes and dislikes.
5. describe a person, an event, or a situation in the past tense.
6. discuss different aspects of Hispanic culture (family relations, sports, the role of women, the arts, drama, economics, recreation).
7. narrate in the present and past of perfect tenses.
8. describe your own and other people’s daily routines in present, past, and future tenses.
9. use expressions that demand the subjunctive mood.
10. use conditional clauses with “if.”
11. use a wider range of vocabulary, including names of parts of the human body, health and medicine, places in a city, stores, geography, professions and occupations, personal relations, business, real estate, travel, restaurants and food, hobbies, sports, and recreation.