Exam+Review

You will be on-line using the computers here at school. There are 185 questions on the exam. It should take less than 90 minutes to complete. The exam will be similar to the on-line tests that you have taken this year. You MUST BRING HEADPHONES to the exam for the listening portion of the test.
 * Your final exam in Spanish will be on Monday, June 7th. **

So, what is on the test? Below is an outline of the exam. Beginning May 17th, there will be links on this outline that take you to activities similar to what you will have to do on the exam.

Tuesday, June 1st from 3:25-4:00 and Thursday, June 3rd from 3:25-4:00
 * Extra Help:** Wednesday: May 12; Tuesday, May 25 after school from 3:25-4:00.

These will be from the Más Práctica Workbook units 5:1-6:1. The best way to prepare for these is to study your vocabulary from these etapas and do the listening activities from the Take Home Tutor. We will also redo these on the June 1st review session.
 * Section 1:** **Listening Comprehension**

The vocabulary will come from 5:1-6:1. It will be presented as matching and fill in the blank. As a matter of fact, you have done part of the exam when you did a unit 5 etapa 3 fill in the blank (multiple choice). I will use this on the exam. Go back through your stuff and find any vocabulary fill in the blank (multiple choice) from 5:1-6:1 and you will see the exam questions.
 * Section 2: Vocabulary**

You will need to know the object pronouns and how to use them. Indirect Object Pronouns can be found on p. 281 (4:2) Direct Object Pronouns can be found on p. 230 (3:3) Reflexive Pronouns p. 330 (5:1) Using pronouns with "ing" verbs p. 352 (5:2) [|Try out this pronoun practice test.] These questions come from the exam.
 * Section 3: Pronouns**

See p. 302 in your text. The exam questions are similar to activity 10, but with all of the words. This section will be multiple choice. [|Try these practice questions.]
 * Section 4: Affirmative and Negative words**

See pgs. 355 and 357 in your text. You will have to write sentences telling how people should do their chores. Example: Given Marcos/pasar la aspiradora (lento), you would write: //Marcos debe pasar la aspiradora lentamente//. Notice that you need the verb DEBER and you need to know the correct spelling of the adverb. [|Try these practice questions].
 * Section 5: Deber and adverbs**

Try [|this practice test] for both past tense and present tense verbs. You will fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb. NOTE that you will have to know if the verb is regular, irregular or has a special spelling change. Reflexive verbs are also included in this section. Regular past tense endings: text p. 376 and p. 404 Special spelling changes for some AR verbs: text p. 378 Reflexive verbs: texto p. 330 Special spelling changes for some ER and IR verbs: text p. 406 Irregulars: text pgs. 407 and 431
 * Section 6: El Pretérito (Past Tense)**

You will fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb. NOTE that you will have to know if the verb is regular, irregular or has a special spelling change, or is stem changing. Reflexive verbs will be included in this section. Regular AR verb endings: text p. 109 SER p. 35; ESTAR p. 134 IR p. 130 Regular ER/IR verbs: text p. 155 Stem changing verbs: text pgs. 204-205; 278 Reflexive verbs: text p. 330
 * Section 7: Present Tense verbs**

You will be given a subject/verb and have to write a sentence in the present progressive. Text p. 232 [|Try these practice questions.]
 * Section 8: Present Progressive ("ing" form of the verb)**

You will be given an infinitive and have to write the negative or affirmative TU command Regular affirmative TU commands: p. 260 Irregular affirmatvie TU commands: p. 332 Regular and irregular negative TU commands: p. 334 [|Try this practice test]. These questions will be on the exam.
 * Section 9: commnands**

You will be given a word pair: //"this book"// and have to write the Spanish Text p. 429 [|Try this practice test.]
 * Section 10: demonstrative adjectives**

You will have to read a short passage and answer questions. The reading passage is ONE of the following, but I won't tell you which one, so prepare all three: Text p. 338-339 OR p. 360-361 OR p. 384-385 The questions that you have to answer are similar to the ones that appear in the text along with the reading passage.
 * Section 11: reading**

You will write a paragraph on ONE of the following topics. Here are all three. You get to choose on the exam. I would suggest that you prepare this ahead of time and show it to me. I would be happy to help you with the paragraph.
 * Section 12: writing**

Write your daily routine. What do you do every day? Use reflexive and regular verbs to describe your day. OR Describe your house and chores. What rooms are there? What things are in the rooms? Where are rooms located? Who does the chores? How often? OR Tell what you did last week. Be specific and use details.


 * This is the full exam outline.**