Name:_____________________________________________Period______Date:___________
Spanish 1A
Fall Semester Review
Answer the following questions in the space provided.
Capítulo PE- Para Empezar
1. Write out the 3 ways to introduce yourself.
2. Write out 4 ways to greet people.
3. Write out 4 ways to say goodbye/ farewell.
4. Know your numbers 1-100. Which 4 numbers have accent marks?
5. Translate: “Sáquen una hoja de papel, Silencio por favor, Levántense, Entreguen los
papeles, Repitan, por favor, Siéntense”
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6. ¿Qué hora es? – Son las tres y media, Es la una y cuarto, Son las nueve menos diez.
7. Translate: el ojo, la nariz, la pierna, el brazo, la boca, la primavera, la mano.
8. Using your answers from number 7, which word doesn’t belong?
9. Translate: a sheet of paper, pen, folder, student desk, teacher, student, and notebook
10. Write the days of the week in the order that they appear in Spanish calendars. How
does this differ from the calendars that you are used to in the US?
11. Write the months of the year in order starting from August.
12. Which word doesn’t belong?- el día, el martes, la semana, el año, el mes.
13. Write out the 4 estaciones.
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14. ¿Qué tiempo hace en México en el verano?
15. ¿Qué tiempo hace en Canadá en el invierno?
16. ¿En qué estación generalmente llueve?
17. What can you say back if someone tells you “mucho gusto.” (List all possible answers)
18. What are the 2 definite articles that mean “the”?
Capítulo 1A
19. Translate: to dance, to talk, to practice sports, to run, to sing, to write stories, to
listen to music, to ski, to play videogames, to play (an instrument), to use the computer,
to skateboard, to draw, to teach, to ride a bike, to watch TV, to study, to swim
(19 verbs total)
20. How do you say that you like something? Can you use the word “yo” in that sentence?
21. Complete the sentence: A mí _______ gusta tocar la guitarra. Translate this sentence.
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22. (a) Can you drop the “a mí” and just say “me gusta”? (b) Can you drop the “me gusta” and
just use the “a mí”? (c) Do you need both phrases to make the sentence correct?
23. Say that you like to swim and also ski.
24. How would you ask someone if they like to skateboard? Can you use the word “tú”?
25. Translate: What do you like to do?
26. What word do you use to agree with someone who likes something?
27. What word do you use to agree with someone who dislikes something?
28. If you don’t like either of the two choices, use the word ________.
29. In order to say that something doesn’t happen use the word ______ before the verb.
30. In English, the infinitive is expressed by writing the word _______ before a verb.
In Spanish the infinitive is expressed by verbs ending in ______, ______, and ______.
31. Translate: I don’t like to draw. I don’t like to draw either. I also like to read.
32. Translate: I don’t like to dance or sing. I don’t like to dance at all.
33. What is the difference between: “No, no me gusta correr.” and “No me gusta corer.”
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Capítulo 1B
34. What is the difference between “¿Cómo estás?” and “Cómo eres?”
35. If you are describing nouns, you need a form of the verb “to be”. What is the word for
“I am”, “you are”, and “he/she/it is”?
36. Translate: artistic, friendly, hardworking, daring, good, impatient, serious, shy, funny,
studious, intelligent, sociable, talented, sports-minded, athletic, messy, neat, lazy, and
patient (19 adjectives in all)
37. Many of these adjectives are cognates. What are cognates? Give 4 other examples of
cognates. List a false cognate.
38. Most feminine adjectives end with the letter ______. Most masculine adjectives end with
the letter ______. Make the adjective “artistic” feminine and masculine.
39. Adjectives that can be either masculine or feminine may end in the letters _______ (as in
the word ____________) or the letter _______ as in the word ___________.
40. Translate: She is lazy, but he is studious. I am sociable. Mr. González is intelligent. Are
you daring? (In this last sentence you are talking to a girl)
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41. Translate: I am not sociable, I am shy. (boy talking). Now write the same sentence if a
girl was the one talking.
42. Translate: Pablo is an intelligent student. What is different about the placement of
Spanish adjectives in a sentence as opposed to English adjectives. In other words, how
is the word order different?
43. Name the two singular definite articles. Name the 2 singular indefinite articles.
44. Me gusta = I like, Te gusta = you like. Now say he or she likes.
Capítulo 2A
45. Translate: technology, art, PE, science, math, social studies, English, lunch, Spanish
46. List the ordinal numbers starting from first to tenth.
47. List the 2 ways to say how much. Which one is feminine? Which one is masculine?
48. List the 2 ways to say how many. Which one is feminine? Which one is masculine?
49. Translate: I have, you have, he/she has.
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50. List all of the subject pronouns and write the definition next to them.
51. What subject pronoun would you use to talk TO the following people: your sister, your
brother, your male teacher, your female teacher, your classmates, your principals.
52. What subject pronoun would you use to talk ABOUT the following people: your sister,
your brother, your male teacher, your female teacher, your female classmates, your
principals (mixed group), yourself, you and your male friend, you(and you are a girl) and
your female friend.
53. List all of the subject pronouns that mean you. Which ones are used when talking to
one person? Which ones are used when talking to more than one person? Which ones
are formal? Which ones are informal?
54. What is the difference between vosotros/as and ustedes?
55. Write out the –AR verb endings in the chart.
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56. Conjugate: esquiar, estudiar, and hablar in all 6 forms
57. Do you conjugate the verb if you have gusta in a sentence? ___________
Choose the correct form of the verb.
58. A mí me gusta (hablar) por teléfono. ____________________________.
59. Paquito (hablar) por teléfono. __________________________________.
60. A María no le gusta (estudiar) ciencias. __________________________.
61. María (estudiar) ciencias. _____________________________________.
62. Nosotros (practicar) el baloncesto. ______________________________.
63. Mis amigos y yo (practicar) el fútbol. ____________________________.
64. Ustedes (cantar) muy mal. ____________________________________.
65. Las chicas (bailar) mucho. ____________________________________.
Capítulo 2B
66. List the items that are generally found in a classroom
67. What are the different parts of a computer?
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68. How do you say: behind, in front of, under, on top of, next to?
69. Translate: La computadora está al lado de la puerta.
70. Conjugate ESTAR. When is estar used? (2 answers)
71. Translate: We are behind the desk.
72. Make these words plural: silla, escritorio, mesa
73. Make these words plural: cartel, profesor, reloj
74. Make these words plural: lápiz, nariz, luz
75. What are the plural definite articles?
76. What are the plural indefinite articles?
REMINDER: Know all of the vocabulary from Para Empezar through 2B. Study your textbooks.
Also, re-read all of the Fondo Cultural boxes in each chapter.
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