Review Sheet for the Semester Final Evidence of Spanish Communication Skills Final Exam

Review Sheet for the Semester Final Evidence of Spanish Communication Skills – Final Exam

General information:

• All students are required to take the Language Acquisition (Spanish 1) final exam for Sra. Moore’s class.

• The final exam (oral and written) has four parts total (one per criteria) and each separate score will be averaged together to equal 25% of your total semester grade.

• The oral portion of the exam will be done in pairs. You and a peer must start, maintain, and close and in-depth conversation using as much of the vocabulary from first semester as possible. The oral exams will take place the week before the actual final exams on December 15 (B-day) and December 16 (A-day). The listening portion will also be on this day. You will need to listen to native speakers talking about all topics from the first semester and answer a series of questions at different levels.

• You will have approximately 85 minutes to complete the reading and writing sections on the actual final exam day.

• You will need to be able to demonstrate a proficient understanding of the content below by using the vocabulary, questions, and responses to create meaningful, clear conversations that make sense. For the reading portion, you’ll also need to show you know what the content below means enough to translate it into English.

• You have a wealth of resources to use to help you study, including: our classroom website, your Realidades textbook, the text’s interactive website (see attached directions), all of your worksheets, handouts, returned work, returned evidence, etc.The descriptive feedback and the completed rubrics for old evidence opportunities will be especially helpful to look at and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses (i.e. areas you need to focus your studying).

• The format will be very similar to the written evidence opportunities you’ve had in the past. You’ll need to be able to understand the language so well you can use it without referring to any resources while taking the test.

• los saludos

• las despedidas
• la hora

• los sentimientos

• el día
• la fecha
• el alfabeto/abecedario
• los números

• ¿Cómo te llamas?¿Cómo se llama Ud./tu mamá?
• ¿Cuál es tu nombre?

• ¿Cómo estás?

• ¿Qué hora es?

• ¿Qué día es hoy?

• ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?

• ¿De dónde eres tú?

• las actividades/los gustos

• el verbo ‘gustar’ y las formas:

• las estaciones (verano v. invierno)
• el tiempo

• ¿Qué te gusta hacer? ¿Y a ti?

• ¿Qué te gusta hacer en el otoño (any season)?
• ¿Qué le gusta hacer a tu padres?
• ¿Qué les gusta hacer a tus amigos?
• ¿Qué les gusta hacer a ti y a tus amigos?
• ¿Te gusta ______?

• ¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Cuándo (hace calor) en el verano…? ¿Hace frío?

• las características

• el verbo ‘ser’ y las formas

• los artículos indefinidos y definidos (el, la, los, las and un, una, unos, unas)

• ¿Cómo eres?

• ¿Cómo es tu amigo/a?

• ¿Eres ______?
• ¿Y tú?
• ¿Cómo es tu madre? ¿Cómo son tus hermanos? ¿Cómo son tú y tus amigos?

• las clases
• los adjetivos

• los números ordénales

• la conjugación de verbos –ar

• ¿Cómo es la clase de ______?

• ¿Cuándo tienes la clase de ______?

• ¿Qué clase te gusta más, _ o __?

• ¿Quién enseña la clase de ______?

• ¿Qué haces en la clase de ______?

• ¿Bailas tú mucho? ¿Cantan tu y tus amigos?

Study suggestions:

Budget your time!

Studying a Little bit for each class every day will pay off in the long run!

Make yourself a schedule!

*Use everything on the “El Examen final – 1st Sem.” page of

Get out all your “I can…” statement sheets from Unidad 1, Unidad 2, and Unidad 3. What don’t you know how to do “well”? Use these to help you focus your study.

Get out all of your old evidence and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. What descriptive feedback has been given to you? Use it to help you focus your study.

Use our classroom website – Unidad 1, 2, 3 pages and the El Examen final page!

Use Quizlet online flashcards or make your own flashcards to drill vocabulary. Use pictures on the front and vocab words on the back. For verb forms, write a pronoun, like ‘yo’ and an infinitive, like ‘hablar’ on the front, and the verb form on the back (hablo).

Complete the online games and quizzes using the textbook’s site.

Create a study group of two or more (especially helpful to practice questions and responses).

Make use of your ACP time. Practice with classmates. Create study groups.

Write all words with accent marks ten times each to get into the rhythm of where to place the accent (and therefore the emphasis when pronouncing the words).

Read the passages (A primera vista, La videohistoria, etc.) and try to translate. Can you? This is an example of practice for Criterion B (i.e. Reading Comprehension).

Retake evidence from Unidad 2 on Tuesday December 13rd from 3:30-5:00 to improve your skills and your grades before the final exam.First come; first serve.

Come in to Sra. Moore’s room for extra practice with her and peers after school on one or more of the following days:

Wednesday, December 14th 3:00-4:00

Thursday, December 15th 3:00-4:00

Monday, December 19th 10:30-11:30