Week 2
Week 3
Lista de compras del Mercado
1. el plátano de fruta
2. el pimiento verde
3. la zanahoria
4. la cebolla
5. el tomate
6. el pollo
7. el cerdo
8. los frijoles
9. el ajo
10. la sal
11. el curry
12. la pimiento
13. la vinagre
14. el arroz
Week 8 & 9
Speech Acts in Spanish
Part I. Pre-task planning:
Situation 1: A friend comes out looking all fancy. What compliment can you say?
- ¡Qué linda!
Situation 2: You do a really good job on a school project, and your professor tells you so. How can you express
thanks to the compliment?
- ¡Muchas gracias!
Situation 3: You accidentally bump into someone. What do you say?
- Perdón
Situation 4: A friend of yours shares that his grandmother recently passed. What do you say?
- Siento tu pérdida
Situation 5: You want to invite one of your besties to stop studying and to come out tonight. What do you say?
- Salamos esta noche
Situation 6: There is a new international student visiting from Equatorial Guinea and you want to invite them
out to dinner with you and your group of friends. Since you don’t know the person well, your
invitation is more on the polite side. What do you say?
- Hola, me llamo Amalaya. ¿Te gustarÃa ir a cenar con mis amigos y yo?
Situation 7: Your group of best friends invite you out, but you have to finish an essay (due tomorrow! Oops).
What do you say?
- Gracias, pero no puedo. Tengo que terminar un ensayo.
Situation 8: The university provost invites you to join the school’s newly formed chess team. While you’re all
about that chess life you have too many other commitments. What can you say to politely turn
down the invitation?
- No, muchas gracias, pero ya tengo planes
Week 14 & 15
Assignment 1
What is reggaeton? Where did it come from?
Reggaeton is reggae in Espanol, it’s a mixture of rap, dancehall, and salsa. It came Panama but raised in Caribbean countries like Puerto Rico.
2. What is Latin trap music?
Latin trap is music based off hip-hop/ rap and reggaeton created by black immigrants.
3, What does Malone argue needs to happen to Latin trap in order for it to be seen and honored as it should be?
For Latin trap to be seen and honored it needs to deal with its race problem.
4. What do you all think about music as a space to raise awareness?
I think that music is a good space to raise awareness. It will give people, especially the blacks and females, the opportunity to express themselves and get notice for their talent. Instead being pushed aside like they always do.
Final Group Project
Guess where was this video filmed:
The video was filmed somewhere in Downtown Miami.
2. What is this music video about? What is the story the it tells?
The music video is about getting a girl. The story is telling how he was able to impress the girl and take her out on a date.
3. Write down five Spanish words (that you recognized from the video) and its English equivalent.
Spanish in English
Siento I feel
Vamonos Let’s go
Amigas Friends
Hace tiempo Some time ago
La noche The night
4. Can you try to listen for a whole line that one of the singers say? Try to repeat it and then write down exactly what you hear below:
Try to right down the line here:
Y la noche paso contigo