(Recorded Course) Spanish III, Part One with Irma Luz Schmitt

Grow confident in Spanish through this college preparatory course. With only 20 students in your class, and additional pre-recorded lectures, your classroom time will be especially engaging and fruitful.

How to get the most out of Spanish III, Part One with Irma Luz M. Schmitt, MA:

  • First, read the course materials below before the first class meeting.

  • Then have a notebook ready and available for class notes each live session.

  • Read assignments before class meetings

  • Watch that week’s recording if you need to revisit information from our live session.

  • Do the assignments, and any extra work assigned for that week.

  • Once the course is completed to the parent's and professor’s satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records.

Special Notes: This is Part One of a 2-part course. 

Total Classes: 12

Duration: 55

Prerequisite: Completion of Spanish II or equivalent

Suggested Grade Level: 9th to 12th grade

Suggested High School Credit: One full semester Foreign Language or Spanish

Instructor:  Irma Luz M. Schmitt, MA

Instructor Email: megustaelespanol01@yahoo.com

Course Description: In this Advanced Level Spanish Course, students will grow in confidence in the use of their Spanish. Advanced grammar, reading comprehension and speaking practice will be a great part of this course. Students will learn the present, perfect, pluperfect, conditional, passive voice and the use of the subjunctive mood. These new skills, added to the grammar foundation obtained in Spanish I and II, will make them able to express and write sentences that talk about ideas, doubts, desires, probability, etc.

Course Outline:

1. Review DOP, IOP, Double Pronouns
2. Present Perfect
3. Pluperfect
4. Reciprocal Actions
5. Change in States
6. Ud. and Uds. Commands
7.  Present Subjunctive
8. Irregular Subjunctive
9. Impersonal Expressions using Present Subjunctive
10. Relative Pronouns Que and Quien
11. Verb Haber
12. General Review

Course Materials: El Principito (The Little Prince) by Antoine De Saint-Exupèry: ISBN 978-9500426404 (https://amzn.to/3BCLJkc). Other course materials provided free by the instructor.

Homework: Students will be required to watch a tutorial about the grammar topic of each respective lesson. After learning the topic and practicing it, they will be asked to complete a grammar quiz every week. In addition, they will read the book El Principito and will find other assignments that help them practice and improve speaking, reading and listening skills in Spanish

During the live class, students will have the opportunity to practice the new topic with their classmates and teacher in the virtual classroom.
Students should assign at least one hour every day to practice their Spanish.