Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Spanish 211B is a second-year level course designed to improve student’s ability to converse in Spanish. It provides opportunity to practice the structures and vocabulary students have encountered or are encountering in their second-year Spanish course. This course is a good review course for students who wish to prepare for further study in Spanish or for those traveling to a Spanish-speaking country. This is a three-credit transferable course, and it counts as an elective for the associate degrees.
 

The student:

• Participates in simple and direct conversations on predictable topics related to personal environment.
• Manages uncomplicated communicative exchanges.
• Recognizes and appreciates linguistic and cultural diversity within the Hispanic world.

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:

• Active participation in class
• Interactive student role-plays
• Individual and group presentation
• Oral interviews with partners or instructor

Include all or most of the following:

• Description of people and things
• Family members and professions
• Adjective agreement
• Daily activities, responsibilities, interests and personal preferences
• Verbs to express interest or lack of it
• Regular and irregular verbs in present, present progressive, immediate future, preterit and imperfect

Competencies and Skills

The student:

• Manages personal interaction in predictable settings.
• Discusses activities in present with some difficulty, and in past tense with lot of difficulty.
• Recognizes and appreciates cultural and linguistic differences in the Spanish speaking world.
• Comprehends slow native speech in a highly contextualized setting.
• Makes herself/himself understood by a sympathetic native speaker accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers.