• Write about the comparisons of sports and celebrations in Spanish-speaking country/ies and yours: state favorite sports and famous athletes from Spanish-speaking countries and those from your own country; explore whether any of the team/athlete from Spanish-speaking country/ies came to your country to play with your nation’s team/athlete/s; discuss the characteristics of soccer fans in Spanish-speaking countries (p.259) and those of your nation’s favorite sport/s; select three of Mexican celebrations from pp.287-288 and compare how they are similar and different from your own culture; discuss whether you are interested in going to experience any celebration/s or sport event/s in Spanish-speaking country/ies and provide reason/s for your response
Only the following grammar structures are permitted: From SPAN101
• Present tense of estar; estar + location; numbers 0-2,000,000; telling time; interrogative words; present tense of regular verbs-ar, -er, and -ir; articles and nouns, adjectives; present tense of ser; ser and estar with adjectives; possessive adjectives; gustar; present tense of ir and ir a + infinitive; present tense of hacer, poner, salir, traer, oír, saber, and conocer; some uses of por and para; present tense of stem-changing verbs (e→ie, o→ue, and e→i); reflexive verbs and pronouns; reciprocal verbs and pronouns; hace with expressions of time From SPAN102
• Present progressive; expressions with tener; direct object nouns and pronouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; adverbs; more about ser and estar; indirect object nouns and pronouns, gustar and similar verbs; preterit of regular verbs; preterit of ir and ser; preterit of reflexive verbs; preterit of-er, and -ir verbs whose stem ends in a vowel; preterit of stem- changing -ir verbs; pronouns after prepositions, some irregular preterits; the imperfect; the of equality