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Preparing For The Final Exam

Spanish 1

This RLC is the first start to preparing…

Don’t forget to submit your reflection for this RLC. The link is located in the Proyecto Final link.

Check Out The Links Within The Proyecto Final To Find Important Study Lists

What Will Be On The Final Exam?There are 2 parts to the Final Exam:

Part 1 is called

Descripción y Entrega and it has several parts. It is a comprehensive, reflective, and creative project using a web 2.0 tool of your choice for you to show what you have learned in the course.  There are visual, audio (speaking), and written components to this project.  

One part of the project is in English so make sure that you read/follow the directions carefully! For the English reflection, be thorough, detailed and specific to obtain the most possible points.

* Entregar means to turn in or submit

We’ve Learned So Much…What Should You Concentrate On?

Go through your notes and pull out 2 verbs and phrases you can use to talk about these subjects:

• Greeting someone (telling your name, where you are from)• Who is in your family, their name, age, characteristics• What you study at school, what supplies you use and what time school begins

and ends• Where you live and a couple of statements about your house (rooms and what

you did in them)• Describing weather where you live and Costa Rica and clothes you would wear• Hobbies and/or activities you enjoy doing• Foods you like and don’t like and vocabulary for different meals (breakfast,

lunch and dinner)• Shopping and describing cost of items, how much you spend and how much

you have left• Stores and sites/tourist locations in your community that you/people visit

Super Important Details To Be Successful On The Written Part Of The Exam

• Yo soy de…• Yo vivo en…* Se llama = his/her name• Use Tener to talk about age• Remember to make adjectives agree with the subjects (Yo soy alta. Él es alto)• Times (a la una vs. son las dos, por la mañana, por la tarde, por la noche)• Stem changing verbs (Mi escuela empieza a las ocho por la mañana…)• En mi casa hay…En mi dormitorio yo estudio…• En el verano hace calor, hace sol, está soleado…• Use the verb Llevar to describe what you wear (Yo llevo los pantalones cortos.) • Don’t forget to always use contractions when necessary (a + el = al and de + el = del)• Verbs that use me, te, le, nos, les (gustar, sobrar, quedar, faltar, aburrir, interesar,

fascinar…)

Go back through your notes and pay close attention to key irregular verbs we have used consistently though the course such as Tener, Ir + A and Ser.

We want to know that you can create simple, basic sentences to convey your message and use not only regular verbs for some irregular ones too!

Be sure you understand the difference in the first written part (a description of your day-to-day life in Costa Rica)

And

The speaking section (a comparison of your day-to-day life and that of a person in Costa Rica.

The speaking section is not you speaking what you write on your Web 2.0 tool!

The speaking section directions tell you to create two paragraphs so plan on at least 10 sentences!

More Important Tidbits on the Speaking

When you create your comparison statements for the Speaking section, remember your primary goal is to demonstrate you can use the vocabulary and phrases you have learned to create grammatically correct sentences.

Your statements don’t have to be hard facts. Keep your statements simple! Don’t try to translate word for word English to Spanish!

Examples

En Costa Rica, la gente come la cena a las ocho por la noche pero en mi casa mi familia come la cena a las seis por la noche.

En Costa Rica hay un bosque lluvioso. No hay un bosque lluvioso en mi ciudad.

En Carolina del Norte, hay el invierno, la primavera, el verano y el otoño. En Costa Rica no hay el invierno y el otoño.

Part 2 is called:

Leer y Escuchar

which includes reading passages and completing listening prompts and selecting the best answer.

You need to complete BOTH parts of the entire final exam as they are both graded and averaged together to form your “Final Exam Average” which is 25% of your final grade.

You may take the two parts at different times, but each part must be completed in one sitting. You cannot save a part and come back to it later.

The Leer and Escuchar exams are not timed. However, DON’T leave the exam on idle and try to return. You will get locked out and it can’t be reset.

If you attempt to switch tabs to go to an outside source to Google information, you will get locked out!

•You are NOT to use anything besides your brains (no notes, no dictionaries, no translators, no people, etc.).

•You should only have one program running (Firefox) and only have one tab open within Firefox.

•DO NOT click on anything outside of the final exam while the final exam is open because it may cause it to freeze and there are NO RESETS.

How is your final grade determined?

Your final grade is determined as follow:

Quarter 1 = 18.75%Quarter 2 = 18.75%Quarter 3 = 18.75%Quarter 4 = 18.75%Final Exam = 25%

You can

1) Go back and complete any missing Escribir, Hablar, Actividad Cultural, previously attended Required Live Class, eLinguaFolio and/or Proyecto Final assignments from Quarter 4,

2) Watch any Quarter 4 RLC archive/s to receive half credit, and

3) You have from now until 11:55 pm on May 15th to get anything/everything submitted.

4) Email your teacher a list of assignments that you want to do and/or redo (specifying whether it’s to do or redo), making sure to include the unit/lesson/assignment name for each (i.e. - 5.3 Hablar, U6 Proyecto Final, 7.2 Escribir, U8 Actividad Cultural).

5) Your teacher will respond to your email with the directions to complete it/them. You’ll do the work and reply back to that email with your actual work/links to your work.

6) It’s imperative that you be specific in your email/s, so that things are recognized, graded and updated easily and appropriately.

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