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2011/12 Program Schedule
- 101. Introduction (Part 1)
- Unit I. Don Fernando Castillo, an aging and infirm patriarch living in Mexico, reveals a long-kept secret to his family. He has always believed that his first wife was killed in the Spanish Civil War, but a letter he has received from Sevilla, Spain hints that she may actually have survived. He hires Raquel Rodriguez, a lawyer from Southern California, to investigate the claims made in the letter. Vocabulario: cognates; family members. Gramática: ser; articles and gender; possession.
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- 102. Introduction (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit I.
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- 103. A Journey to Seville (Part 1)
- Unit II. Raquel travels to Sevilla in search of Teresa Suárez, the writer of the disturbing letter to Don Fernando. On learning that Sra. Suárez now lives in Madrid, she takes the train to the capital city. Vocabulario: numbers (0-20); academic subjects; animals; days of the week; telling time. Gramática: hay; estar; ir; present tense (regular verbs); subject pronouns; personal a; interrogatives; adjectives.
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- 104. A Journey to Seville (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit II.
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- 105. A Journey to Seville (Part 3)
- Continuation of Unit II.
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- 106. A Journey to Seville (Part 4)
- Continuation of Unit II.
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- 107. A Journey to Madrid (Part 1)
- Unit III. In Madrid, after a series of mishaps and mistakes, Raquel contacts Teresa Suárez, who gives her important information about Rosario, Don Fernando's first wife. The new information sends Raquel to Argentina. Vocabulario: clothing; numbers (21-99); interrogatives; months; seasons; colors; descriptive adjectives. Gramática: saber; conocer; present tense (irregular verbs, stem-changing verbs, reflexive pronouns); more on possession; demonstratives; more on using adjectives; ser and estar.
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- 108. A Journey to Madrid (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit III.
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- 109. A Journey to Madrid (Part 3)
- Continuation of Unit III.
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- 110. A Journey to Madrid (Part 4)
- Continuation of Unit III.
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- 111. A Journey to Madrid (Part 5)
- Continuation of Unit III.
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- 112. A Journey to Argentina (Part 1)
- Unit IV. In Buenos Aires, Raquel's search for Don Fernando's first wife leads her to the office of Dr. Arturo Iglesias, who divulges some startling additional news which sends Raquel to Puerto Rico. Arturo decides to help Raquel in her search and promises to join her in San Juan. Vocabulario: numbers (100-1,000); food groups (meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, others); writing and written works. Gramática: preterite tense; direct and indirect object pronouns; prepositions; pronoun objects of prepositions; using adjectives; verbs used reflexively and nonreflexively; gustar and verbs like it; two object pronouns together.
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- 113. A Journey to Argentina (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit IV.
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- 114. A Journey to Argentina (Part 3)
- Continuation of Unit IV.
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- 115. A Journey to Argentina (Part 4)
- Continuation of Unit IV.
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- 116. A Journey to Argentina (Part 5)
- Continuation of Unit IV.
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- 117. A Journey to Argentina (Part 6)
- Continuation of Unit IV.
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- 118. A Journey to Argentina (Part 7)
- Continuation of Unit IV.
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- 119. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 1)
- Unit V. In San Juan, Raquel soon finds the answer to one of the pressing questions of her search and meets Angela, someone who has much to tell Don Fernando. Raquel persuades Angela to return with her to Mexico. Vocabulario: directions; more family members; weather; changes in state or condition; parts of a house; domestic appliances; more descriptive adjectives. Gramática: present and past progressive; imperfect; imperfect and preterite together; por and para; affirmatives and negatives; idioms with tener; comparisons; estar and sentirse with adjectives; acabar de; hace, hace ... que; al + infinitive.
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- 120. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 121. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 3)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 122. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 4)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 123. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 5)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 124. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 6)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 125. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 7)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 126. A Journey to Puerto Rico (Part 8)
- Continuation of Unit V.
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- 127. A Journey to Mexico (Part 1)
- Unit VI. Vocabulario: body parts, medical situations, city locations, stores, geographical features, professions, social life, giving advice. Gramática: future, superlatives, present subjunctive, use of the subjunctive in noun clauses, subjunctive with adverbial conjunctions of time and in adjective clauses, commands, present perfect (indicative and subjunctive), que and quien, past participle as adjective.
- 128. A Journey to Mexico (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 129. A Journey to Mexico (Part 3)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 130. A Journey to Mexico (Part 4)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 131. A Journey to Mexico (Part 5)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 132. A Journey to Mexico (Part 6)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 133. A Journey to Mexico (Part 7)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 134. A Journey to Mexico (Part 8)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 135. A Journey to Mexico (Part 9)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 136. A Journey to Mexico (Part 10)
- Continuation of Unit VI.
- 137. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 1)
- Unit VII. Vocabulario: money, business, renting and buying, tourist needs, restaurants, hotels, sports, relationships, pastimes. Gramática: forms and uses of the past subjunctive (simple and perfect), conditional, if-clause sentences, past perfect indicative, adverb formation, exclamations, subjunctive.
- 138. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 2)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 139. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 3)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 140. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 4)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 141. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 5)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 142. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 6)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 143. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 7)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 144. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 8)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 145. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 9)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 146. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 10)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 147. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 11)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 148. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 12)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 149. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 13)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 150. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 14)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 151. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 15)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
- 152. A Journey to Mexico: The Capital (Part 16)
- Continuation of Unit VII.
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