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Unit 4
APPENDIX D

2. Using English as the contact language, make a kinship diagram of the family with whom you are living. There may be cross-cultural problems here of a non-verbal nature: Under what circumstances is this kind of inquiry acceptable? What must one avoid asking about? Whom should one ask?

Middle orbit.

3. Based on the original dialog:

¿Usted conoce (a) (Juan Martinez)? (Lo/La) conozco.

or

No (la/lo) conozco. ¿Quien es?

Es (el padre, la hija, etc.) de (Miguel).

¿Quien es (Raúl Quintana)?


Outer orbit

4. Cummings device: ¿Dónde vive (usted)? (Vivo/Vive) en (la calle Cristina).

5. The Spanish dialogs and/or Cummings devices to enable students to perform augment 2, above, in Spanish instead of English.

Unit 5.

Linguistic content:

(1) Review of segmental pronunciation points covered in units 2-4.

(2) First steps in teaching pronunciation of /r/.

(3) Meanings of verb endings without meanings of verb stems: (a) 1 sg. present vs. 1 pl. present, (b) 1 sg. present vs. 2/3 sg. preterite, (c) 1 sg. preterite vs. 2/3 sg. preterite.

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