Dr. Derek A. Petrey, Associate Professor in Spanish, Coordinator of Modern Languages, Honors Program Director, Sinclair Community College

 

Welcome to my homepage! Please report any broken links.

Here is the WebCAPE login page [the on-line site for placement in Spanish, French, and German].

Info on the Conversation Tables in many languages!

 

Class materials

·       Information on the independent study activities. (updated for Summer Quarter)

·       Link to Eduspace.

·       Upcoming cultural events (not updated).

·       Information on the cultural presentation for students of Steven Bice.

·        Class notes (still under revision) for SPA 101, SPA 102, SPA 103, SPA 161/297.

Links of interest:  

Spanish at your fingertips:

·        Learn vocabulary using a flashcard program.

·        Read original short stories in Spanish, including some tailored just for students!

·        Look at cartoons in Spanish by Argentine cartoonist Quino, internationally famous for Mafalda and his social commentary.

·        Listen to Latin music at Batanga

·        Read cultural essays on Hispanics in America!

·        Look at Latin American skylines at www.skyscrapercity.com

·        Watch TV in Spanish at Canal 13 (Chile)

·        Explore becoming a language teacher

o   Program at Wright State

o   Program at UD

·        Take a trip… here are some study abroad programs that some of my students have recommended:

o   www.casarosario.com

o   www.artemaya.com 

 Blogs in Spanish:

A weB LOG is something like an online diary that people use to publish their thoughts online.  Why do people do this?  Are they driven by some uncanny need to make their daily life and inner thoughts open to the whole world?  Who knows?  I do find some of them quite entertaining, though.  Here are some in Spanish that I especially like:

·        Nena Genia (Genius Girl), an Argentine living in Ibiza.

·        Principio de Incertidumbre (Uncertainty Principle). Argentine blogspot with poetry, essays, humorous insights.

·        Diario de un Ocioso (Diary of a Lazy Guy), a Spaniard with an intense devotion to leisure.

·        Las Noches de Sherezade (Scheherezade's [Arabian] Nights), a surrealistic page dedicated to the heroine of the Arabian Nights stories.

News in Spanish:

·        here is a website, LANIC, which has links to Latin American newspapers.

·        here is another such site, at vilches.com, for Latin America

·        you can find some newspapers from Spain on this vilches.com page

·        Terra, a Spanish web portal run by Lycos

·        Yupi, a Spanish web portal run by Microsoft

·        Latin America in Cyberspace, a wonderful index run by the

·        Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University

Study aids, learning materials

General

·       How do you learn?  Find out what learning type you are by taking this quiz.

·       Free online web exercises at Study Spanish

·      Online exercises from Heinle & Heinle

·      "Leave Me alone! Can't You See I'm Trying to Learn Your Language?": a most excellent article about learning languages by Greg Thomson

·      Online Quia exercises for Spanish 

                  

For Spanish 101:

          Vocabulary reviews:

·                  Prelim. Chapter Review (Ante todo)

·                  Chapter 1 Review

·                  Chapter 2 Review

·                  Chapter 3 Review

·                  Chapter 4 Review

·                  Chapter 5 Review

          Grammar reviews:

·                  Verbs from chapters 1-7, present tense

·                  Stem-changing verbs review  

*** WARNING - the instructor who did this webpage made a mistake.

    *** divertirse is a e to ie stemchanging verb.  Bad instructor.  Thanks to Richard Johnson for pointing this out!

    *** divertirse actually changes to i in the preterite not the present; the instructor merely confused tenses.

          Present tense of divertirse:

yo me divierto

nosotros nos divertimos

te diviertes

vosotros os divertís

él / ella / Ud. se divierte

ellos / ellas / Uds. se divierten

          Preterit of divertirse: (you will see this in 102)

yo me divertí

nosotros nos divertimos

te divertiste

vosotros os divertisteis

él / ella / Ud. se divirtió

ellos / ellas / Uds. se divirtieron

 

For Spanish 102:

          Vocabulary reviews:

·                  Chapter 6 Review 

·                  Chapter 7 Review 

·                  Chapter 8 Review (two exercises: holidays and emotions)

·                  Chapter 9 Review

·                  Chapter 10 Review

·                  Chapter 11 Review

          Grammar reviews:

·                  http://www.quia.com/jg/312903.html - Direct Objects

·                  http://www.quia.com/cm/1687.html  - Direct Objects

·                  http://www.quia.com/tq/333344.html  -Direct & Indirect Objects

·                  http://www.quia.com/hm/99175.html - hangman with IOs

·                  http://www.quia.com/cz/10335.html - IOs

·                  http://www.quia.com/rr/53365.html - Millionaire with IOs

·                  ¿por o para?

  two exercises

          Verb tenses:

·                  Formal (Ud.) Commands 

·                  Another exercise for Ud. commands - play Hangman

·                  Preterit       Irregular Preterits 

·                  Jeopardy with preterit, IO, and DO 

For Spanish 103:

·                  Chapter 13

·                  Chapter 14

·                  Chapter 15

·                  Chapter 16

·                  http://home.minneapolis.edu/~witwerda/grammar/superverbs1.doc

(A grammar review sheet that covers most of the verbs we will see in 103)

·                  Informal commands

·                  the DEDO handout for the subjunctive

 

 Earlier syllabi:

·              Spanish 102         (Calendar)

·              Spanish 102H      (Calendar)

·              Spanish 103         (Calendar)

·              Spanish for Law Enforcement (297)

·              Spanish for Social Work (297)

 

Personal & contact information

          Name: Derek Petrey

          Department: Humanities, Government, and Modern Languages

          Office: Room 3232-B

          Office Phone: (937)-(512)-2092

         

          Degrees: Ph.D. Ohio State University: Department of Spanish & Portuguese

                             Areas of specialization: Modern Latin America, Luso-Brazilian Studies, and Literary Theory

                     M.A. Ohio State University : Hispanic Literatures & Cultures

                             Areas of study: Modern Latin America and Modern Peninsular Studies

                     B.A.  Wright State University: Department of Modern Languages

                             Languages: Spanish (major) French (minor) Russian (diversification)

         

          Professional Organizations:

                             AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese)

                             ATA (American Translators Association)

                             LASA (Latin American Studies Association)

                             MLA (Modern Language Association)

                            

Other interesting pages

          Search Engines:

·        Altavista

·        Google

·        Lycos

·        Yahoo in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, US (hispanohablante)

          Personality surveys and on-line quizzes

·        World's Smallest Political Quiz