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VII Samples:
Entire Unit 43 Text 30pp (.pdf)
Audio
43.21.1 (partial) (mp3) (1.20)
For detailed contents of Level VII, go here.
The Historical Context
By far the most important event of the early 20th century in Latin America was the Mexican "Revolution", which was as much a civil war as a revolution. Millions of Mexicans, most of them non-combatants, died. Many Mexicans doubt that the results were worth the cost. After the "revolution", and some bloody infighting among the victors, the survivors consolidated power in what has been called "the perfect dictatorship". Peace more or less prevailed for 60 or so years, and Mexico undoubtedly made great economic advances under the leadership of what came to be know as the PRI (Partido de la Revolución Insitucionalizada). For most of this period, the world was preoccupied with World War I and the Great Depression, and Latin America remained fairly quiescent.
Level VII Overview
Level VII includes a lot of work on Spanish sentence structure, still more of the subjunctive, and the introduction of the conditional tense..
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Unit
44. Comparison
of equality; exclamatory expressions; irregular --do forms; English
verb-relator-verb equivalent to Spanish verb-verb; stress pattern contrast in
singular regular and irregular preterit (past I) forms; vocabulary enrichment:
Transportation Problems in Latin America: Sea and Air.
Unit 45. The past perfect construction;
shortening of certain adjectives; the --do form for postures; English
verb-adverb- "to"-verb vs. Spanish verb-adjective-verb; theme class in present
subjunctive forms; vocabulary enrichment: Problems of Daily Life in Latin America.
Unit 46. Comparison of identity and similarity;
word order - verb and verb position of adverbial phrase modifier; English verb +
object vs. Spanish verb + relator+ object; Spanish reflexive verb + relator + object; stem
changing verbs in present tense; nominalization in present tense; nominalization in
comparisons.
Unit 47. The past subjunctive, present perfect and past
perfect subjunctives, Spanish verb+relator+infinitive, the intensifier mismo,
hortatory reflexives, readings/vocabulary enrichment.
Unit 48. The conditional tense and the
conditional perfect construction; conditional sentences with a subjunctive verb and a
conditional verb; the periphrastic conditional; the neuter article lo with
nominalized adjectives; stem changing verbs in Past 1 (preterit); the present progressive
construction with alternate conjugated verbs; readings/vocabulary enrichment.
Unit 49.
Idioms and sentence structures; the future tense and the future perfect construction;
conditional sentences; irregular present - irregular Past I (preterit) forms; gender in
pronouns after phrase relators; readings/vocabulary enrichment.
Idioms and sentence structures; the future tense and the future perfect construction;
conditional sentences; irregular present - irregular Past I (preterit) forms; gender in
pronouns after phrase relators; readings/vocabulary enrichment.
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A "Zapatista", lampooned by Guadalupe Posada as a skeleton waving a death's head flag. Posada was probably Mexico's greatest illustrator/caricaturist, and his work from the late 19th and early 20th centuries opens a unique window on Mexico. He didn't take sides, but lampooned all sides impartially Sample
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