Sinclair Community College

The Department of Humanities, Government, and Modern Languages

Dr. Derek A. Petrey, Assistant Professor in Spanish, Assistant Chair

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WebCAPE login page click here [this page will take you to the on-line site for placement in Spanish, French, and German]

Class materials

Fall Quarter 2006:

· Spanish 101 (Calendar)

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

· Webpage for Nexos

· Info on the Conversation Table

· Upcoming cultural events for November.

[Information on the cultural presentation for students of Steven Bice]

Earlier syllabi:

· Spanish 102 (Calendar)

· Spanish 102H (Calendar)

· Spanish 103 (Calendar)

· Spanish for Law Enforcement (297)

· Spanish for Social Work (297)

Class notes:

· class notes for 101

· class notes for 102

· class notes for 103

· class notes for 297

Links of interest:

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

Blogs in Spanish

What is a blog? A weB LOG is like an online diary that people use to publish their thoughts on the WWW.

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 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 site of 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.

Other cultural materials

· www.casarosario.com, www.artemaya.com

· watch TV in Spanish at www.canal13.cl

· www.skyscrapercity.com, a site where you can look at cities all around the world

· WWW.BYKI.COM, a flashcard program

· An excellent site for original short stories in Spanish, including some tailored just for students!

A site in honor of the Argentine cartoonist Quino, internationally famous for Mafalda and his social commentary.

Listen to music in Spanish! Read cultural essays on Hispanics in America!

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
tú 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
tú 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

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