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Middle School Spanish Grades 6-8 First Semester

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Beginning Spanish Online

You are about to begin an exciting Spanish adventure.  In this course you will explore the Spanish language through stories, songs, games, and research. You will also explore cultures of Spanish-speaking countries like mine, the Dominican Republic through videos, CultureGrams, and more. You should plan to spend at least 45-60 minutes reading, studying, and practicing the information presented to you each day.  Repeat the activities and study the information until you are confident with all the material. Your best effort will bring about incredible leaps in learning Spanish

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Beginning Spanish Online First Semester

Unit 1

  • Getting Started in Spanish 1
    • Academic Integrity Statement
    • Welcome to Spanish!
    • Advisor
    • Advisor: Introduction to Vocabulary
    • Listening: Introduction to Greetings
    • Pronunciation: Greetings
  • Greetings Part 1
    • Vocabulary Reference: Greetings
    • Pronunciation: Greetings
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Advisor: Introduction to Sancho and Bolsa
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 1.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 1.2
  • Greetings Part 2
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Greetings
    • Writing: Greetings
    • Advisor: Introduction to Grammar
    • Grammar Explanation: Grammatical Terms
    • Grammar: Parts of Speech
    • A Closer Look at Subject Pronouns
  • Greetings Part 3
    • Grammar: Subject Pronouns
    • Introduction to Patterns
    • Grammar: Tú and Usted
    • Grammar Hunches: Tú and Usted (Practice)
    • Grammar Explanation: Tú and Usted
    • Grammar: Tú or Usted
    • Advisor
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 1.3
  • Greetings Part 4
    • Advisor
    • Writing: Greetings
    • Pronunciation: Greetings
    • Grammar: Subject Pronouns
    • Pronunciation: Alphabet: Reference
    • Listening: Alphabet: Reference
    • Speaking: Practice Spell your name (Practice)
  • Greetings Part 5
    • Advisor
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 1.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 1.4 Answers
    • Advisor: Introduction to Ditties
    • Listening: Ditties
    • Speaking: Ditties
    • Quiz: Ditties Answers
    • Speaking: Practice Ditties (Practice)
  • Greetings Part 6
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Greetings
    • Listening: Greetings
    • Grammar: Tú or Usted
    • Writing: Greetings
    • Advisor: Introduction to Reading Comprehension
    • Reading: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
  • Greetings Part 7
    • Advisor: Introduction to Conversation Station
    • Speaking: Conversation Practice
    • Advisor: Introduction to Culture
    • Culture Video: Mexico
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • CultureGrams™: Mexico (Practice) Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Greetings Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Quiz: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.1 Answers
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.1: Part 1 (Practice)
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.1: Part 2

Unit 2

  • Greetings Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Advisor: Introduction to Focused Listening Exercises
    • Listening: Conversations Answers
    • Advisor: Introduction to Explore Activities
    • Explore: Greetings
  • School Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: School
    • Vocabulary Reference: School
    • Pronunciation: School
    • Vocabulary: Review
  • School Part 2
    • Advisor
    • A Guide to Accents: Reference
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 2.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 2.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 2.2
  • School Part 3
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: School
    • Writing: School
    • Grammar: Definite Articles
    • Grammar Hunches: Definite Articles (Practice)
    • Grammar Explanation: Nouns, Definite Articles
  • School Part 4
    • Grammar: Definite Articles
    • Practice: Definite Articles
    • Grammar Explanation: Indefinite Articles
    • Indefinite Articles Practice
    • Writing: Plural Nouns
    • Grammar in Context: From Word to Discourse
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 2.3
  • School Part 5
    • Advisor
    • Writing: School
    • Listening: School Objects
    • Writing: School
    • Writing: School
    • Pronunciation: Accented Vowels
  • School Part 6
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 2.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 2.4 Answers
    • Advisor: Introduction to Points, Lines, and Figures
    • Pronunciation: Points, Lines and Figures
    • Pronunciation: Points, Lines and Figures
    • Listening: Points, Lines and Figures
    • Listening: Points, Lines and Figures
  • School Part 7
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: School
    • Listening: School
    • Writing: Pattern Practice
    • Advisor: Introduction to Listening Comprehension
    • Listening: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
  • School Part 8
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
    • Culture Video: Mexico
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • CultureGrams™: Mexico (Practice) Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • School Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Test: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.2 Answers
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.2

Unit 3

  • School Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Quiz: Writing 1.2: Part 1
    • Quiz: Writing 1.2: Part 2
    • Quiz: Writing 1.2: Part 3
    • Quiz: Writing 1.2: Part 4
    • Advisor: Introduction to Realias
    • Reading: Realia (Practice) Answers

Unit 4

  • Descriptions and Colors Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Descriptions & Colors
    • Vocabulary Reference: Descriptions
    • Vocabulary Reference: Colors
    • Pronunciation: Descriptions & Colors
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 2
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 3.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 3.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 3.2
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 3
    • Pronunciation: Descriptions & Colors
    • Writing: Descriptions & Colors
    • Grammar: Adjectives
    • Grammar Hunches: Adjectives (Practice)
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 4
    • Grammar: Adjectives
    • Grammar Explanation: Adjectives
    • Grammar: Adjective Agreement
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 3.3
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 5
    • Writing: Descriptions & Colors
    • Grammar: Adjectives
    • Writing: Adjectives Game
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 3.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 3.4 Answers
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 6
    • Advisor: Introduction to The Broken Window
    • Reading and Listening: The Broken Window
    • Listening: The Broken Window vocabulary
    • Quiz: The Broken Window Answers
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 7
    • Pronunciation: Descriptions & Colors
    • Listening: Description and Colors
    • Grammar: Adjectives
    • Writing: Adjectives Game
    • Reading: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
  • Descriptions and Colors Part 8
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
    • Culture Video: Mexico
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • CultureGrams™: Mexico (Practice) Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Descriptions and Colors Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Test: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.3 Answers
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.3

Unit 5

  • Descriptions and Colors Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Quiz: Writing 1.3
    • Reading: Realia (Practice) Answers
    • Listening: Conversations Answers

Unit 6

  • Countries and Nationalities Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Countries and Nationalities
    • Vocabulary Reference: Countries and Nationalities
    • Pronunciation: Countries and Nationalities
    • Vocabulary in Context: A Geography Lesson
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 2
    • Vocabulary Reference: Numbers 0-30
    • Vocabulary Introduction: More on Numbers
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 4.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 4.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 4.2
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 3
    • Pronunciation: Countries and Nationalities
    • Pronunciation: Numbers
    • Writing: Countries and Nationalities
    • Grammar: Ser and Estar
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 4
    • Grammar Hunches: Ser and Estar (Practice)
    • Grammar Explanation: Ser and Estar
    • Pattern Check: Ser and Estar
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 4.3
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 5
    • Writing: Countries and Nationalities
    • Grammar: Ser and Estar
    • Writing: Ser and Estar Game
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 4.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 4.4 Answers
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 6
    • Advisor: Introduction to El Alfabeto Romano
    • El Alfabeto Romano
    • Quiz: El Alfabeto Romano (Practice) Answers
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 7
    • Pronunciation: Countries and Nationalities
    • Listening: Countries and Nationalities
    • Grammar: Ser and Estar
    • Writing: Ser and Estar Game
    • Listening: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Countries and Nationalities Part 8
    • Culture Video: Mexico
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • Culture Report: Mexico
    • CultureGrams™: Mexico – Reference
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Countries and Nationalities Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Test: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.4 Answers
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.4

Unit 7

  • Countries and Nationalities Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Practice: Writing 1.4 (Practice)
    • Reading: Realia (Practice) Answers

Unit 8

  • Quarter 1 Exam Review Part 1
    • Advisor
  • Quarter 1 Exam Review Part 2
    • Advisor
  • Quarter 1 Exam Review Part 3
    • Advisor
  • Quarter 1 Exam Review Part 4
    • Advisor
  • Quarter 1 Exam
    • Semester 1 Midterm Exam Answers
    • Semester 1 Midterm Speaking Quiz: Part 1
    • Semester 1 Midterm Speaking Quiz: Part 2
    • Semester 1 Midterm Writing Exam: Part 1
    • Semester 1 Midterm Writing Exam: Part 2

Unit 9

  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Common AR verbs
    • Vocabulary Reference: Common “ar” Verbs
    • Vocabulary Reference: Adverbs of Frequency
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 2
    • Pronunciation: Common AR verbs
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 5.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 5.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 5.2
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 3
    • Pronunciation: Common AR verbs
    • Writing: Common AR verbs
    • Grammar: -ar verbs
    • Grammar Hunches: -ar verbs (Practice)
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 4
    • Grammar Explanation: -ar verbs
    • Grammar Explanation: Negative Sentences
    • Grammar: -ar verbs
    • Grammar: -ar verbs
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 5.3
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 5
    • Writing: Common AR verbs
    • Grammar: -ar verbs
    • Writing: AR verbs Game
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 5.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 5.4 Answers
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 6
    • Advisor: Introduction to From Word to Discourse
    • From Word to Discourse – Review
    • Speaking: From Word to Discourse (Practice)
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 7
    • Pronunciation: Common AR verbs
    • Listening: Common AR verbs
    • Grammar: -ar verbs
    • Writing: AR verbs Game
    • Reading: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
  • Common “ar” Verbs Part 8
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
    • Culture Video: Spain
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • CultureGrams™: Spain (Practice) Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Common “ar” Verbs Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Quiz: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.5 Answers

Unit 10

  • Common “ar” Verbs Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Practice: Writing 1.5 (Practice)
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.5
    • Listening: Conversations Answers
    • Explore: Flag

Unit  11

  • Common “er” Verbs Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Common “er” verbs
    • Vocabulary Reference: Common “er” Verbs
    • Vocabulary Reference: Telling Time
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 2
    • Pronunciation: ER verbs and Telling Time
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 6.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 6.1 (Practice) Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 6.2
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 3
    • Pronunciation: ER verbs and Telling Time
    • Writing: ER verbs and Telling Time
    • Grammar: -er verbs
    • Grammar Hunches: -er verbs (Practice)
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 4
    • Grammar Explanation: -er verbs
    • Grammar: -er verbs
    • Grammar: -er verbs
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 6.3
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 5
    • Writing: Telling Time
    • Grammar: -er verbs
    • Writing: ER verbs Game
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 6.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 6.4 Answers
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 6
    • Advisor: Introduction to Chatter at a Royal Ball
    • Chatter at a Royal Ball
    • Speaking: Chatter at a Royal Ball (Practice)
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 7
    • Pronunciation: ER verbs and Telling Time
    • Listening: ER verbs and Telling Time
    • Grammar: -er verbs
    • Writing: ER verbs Game
    • Listening: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
  • Common “er” Verbs Part 8
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
    • Culture Video: Spain
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • CultureGrams™: Spain (Practice) Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Common “er” Verbs Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Test: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.6 Answers

Unit 12

  • Common “er” Verbs Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.6
    • Quiz: Writing 1.6
    • Listening: Conversations Answers

Unit 13

  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: common “ir” verbs
    • Vocabulary Reference: Common “ir” Verbs
    • Vocabulary: Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
    • Pronunciation: common “ir” verbs and Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 2
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Pronunciation: Prepositions Matching Game
    • Vocabulary in Context: Focus on a Scene
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 7.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 7.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 7.2
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 3
    • Pronunciation: IR verbs and Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
    • Writing: IR verbs and Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
    • Grammar: -ir verbs
    • Grammar: -ir verbs
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 4
    • Grammar Hunches: -ir verbs (Practice)
    • Grammar Explanation: -ir verbs
    • Grammar: -ir verbs
    • Grammar in Context: Questions of a Child
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 7.3
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 5
    • Writing: IR verbs and Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
    • Grammar: -ir verbs
    • Writing: IR verbs Game
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 7.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 7.4 Answers
    • Explore: Famous People
    • Advisor: Introduction to The Key of the King’s Kingdom
    • Reading and Listening: The Key of the King’s Kingdom-English and Spanish
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 6
    • Pronunciation: The Key of the King’s Kingdom-Drag and Drop
    • Writing: The Key of the King’s Kingdom Game
    • Quiz: The Key of the King’s Kingdom Answers
    • Advisor: Introduction to Simultell
    • Simultell: The Key of the King’s Kingdom
    • Speaking: The Key of the King’s Kingdom (Practice)
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 7
    • Pronunciation: IR verbs and Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
    • Listening: IR verbs and Coordinating Conjunctions and Prepositions
    • Grammar: -ir verbs
    • Writing: IR verbs Game
    • Reading: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
  • Common “ir” Verbs Part 8
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
    • Culture Video: Spain
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • CultureGrams™: Spain (Practice) Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Common “ir” Verbs Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Quiz: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.7 Answers
    • Listening: Conversations Answers

Unit 14

  • Common “ir” Verbs Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Practice: Writing 1.7 (Practice)
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.7
    • Explore Submission: Famous People

Unit 15

  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Pronunciation: Numbers 30 – 100
    • Pronunciation: Days, Months and Seasons
    • Vocabulary Reference: Days, Months, Seasons
    • Vocabulary Reference: Numbers 30 – 100
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 2
    • Pronunciation: Numbers 30-100
    • Pronunciation: Days, Months, Seasons
    • Vocabulary: Review
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 8.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 8.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 8.2
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 3
    • Pronunciation: Numbers 30 – 100 and Days, Months and Seasons
    • Writing: Numbers 30 – 100 and Days, Months and Seasons
    • Grammar: Making Questions in Spanish
    • Grammar Hunches: Making Questions in Spanish (Practice)
    • Grammar Explanation: Making Questions in Spanish
    • Vocabulary Reference: Question Words
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 4
    • Pronunciation: Question Words-Pick It!
    • Grammar: Giving Dates
    • Grammar Hunches: Giving Dates (Practice)
    • Grammar Explanation: Giving Dates
    • Grammar: Giving Dates
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 8.3
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 5
    • Writing: Numbers 30 – 100 and Days, Months and Seasons
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 8.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 8.4 Answers
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 6
    • Advisor: Introduction to Speed Learning
    • Speed Learning
    • Pronunciation: Questions in Spanish
    • Quiz: Speed Learning Answers
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 7
    • Pronunciation: Numbers 30-100
    • Pronunciation: Days, Months, Seasons
    • Listening: Numbers 30 – 100 and Days, Months and Seasons
    • Writing: Giving Dates
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Part 8
    • Listening: Comprehension Practice (Practice) Answers
    • Pronunciation: Vocabulary and Grammar
    • Culture Video: Spain
    • Culture: Video Comprehension Questions Answers
    • Game Show Review: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Numbers 30 – 100 Review and Quiz Part 1
    • Unit Review
    • Quiz: Vocabulary and Grammar 1.8 Answers
    • Quiz: Speaking 1.8

Unit 16

  • Numbers 30 – 100 Review and Quiz Part 2
    • Quiz: Writing 1.8
    • Reading: Realia (Practice) Answers

Unit 17

  • Semester 1 Exam Review Part 1
    • Advisor
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 9.1
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 9.1 Answers
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 9.2
  • Semester 1 Exam Review Part 2
    • Advisor
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 9.3
  • Semester 1 Exam Review Part 3
    • Advisor
    • Reading and Listening: Sancho and Bolsa 9.4
    • Quiz: Sancho and Bolsa 9.4 Answers
  • Semester 1 Exam Review Part 4
    • Advisor
  • Semester 1 Exam
    • Semester 1 Final Exam Answers
    • Semester 1 Final Speaking Test: Part 1
    • Semester 1 Final Speaking Test: Part 2
    • Semester 1 Final Writing Exam: Part 1
    • Semester 1 Final Writing Exam: Part 2