Tutor Marked Written Exercises Spanish for Beginners II Spanish 201 Athabasca University

Many of the exercises of the Destinos textbook and workbook are of the identification type; others are of the fill-in-the-blank type. While identification and filling in the blanks may help in the comprehension of Spanish, and to some extent in the learning of vocabulary and grammar, additional exercises are needed to give you more practice writing. Therefore six Tutor Marked Written Exercises (TMWEs) have been included in the Assignment Manual. (See the study schedule in the Student Manual.) Complete each TMWE after you have studied a unit, and send it to your tutor for marking. Always include a TME form with your assignments. TME forms are found in the forms package of your course materials or online.

The following Athabasca University URL gives you information on what to do to be able to create accents: http://itss.athabascau.ca/students/docs/keyboard.htm.

The online written exercises (TMWEs) are word documents that you will save to your computer, work on at your convenience, and send to your tutor as an email attachment with an online TME form. Athabasca University uses Microsoft Word. If your attached electronic assignments are not submitted in Word format, they should be in rich text format (rtf).

If you need computer assistance, please contact the Computing Services Help Desk at Athabasca University at:

Telephone: 1-800-788-9041 ext. 6405
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There is a written assignment for every four or five lessons in the textbook. It may contain the following components:

exercises containing grammatical structures based mostly on the lessons you have just finished studying—which does not exclude material learned in previous lessons.
exercises to check your correct use of the vocabulary.
questions based on your reading of a short paragraph or requiring you to narrate a situation from your own experience.
an Assignment (Para escribir) designed to test your expression skills. You will receive a single grade for any particular segment in the written exercise but the final grade will reflect the whole assignment weight.

Note: Send in one TMWE at a time. Doing so gives you the advantage of receiving the proper feedback from your tutor and will prevent your making the same mistakes in your next ones. Under no circumstances will any tutor mark all of the TMWEs if a student chooses to send them all in at once.