Leccion preliminar. Conversaciones breves (Brief conversations)
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Greetings and farewells
2. The alphabet
3. Gender and number
4. The definite and indefinite articles
5. The present indicative of ser
6. Cardinal numbers 0-39
Communication: Greetings, farewells, and introductions in personal and telephone interaction with other people
Leccion 1. En una estacion de policía
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Subject pronouns
2. The present indicative of regular -ar verbs
3. Interrogative and negative sentences
4. Possession with de
5. Cardinal numbers 40-299 and 300-1,000
6. Forms and position of adjectives
7. Telling time
Communication: On the phone: giving and receiving simple information, reporting an accident or a robbery
Leccion 2. Con un agente hispano, en una calle de la ciudad
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The present indicative of regular -er and -ir verbs
2. Possession with de
3. Possessive adjectives
Communication: Police work in the streets: asking for and giving directions, enforcing the use of a helmet, dealing with a girl walking alone in the streets
Leccion 3. Con el agente Smith
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The irregular verbs ir, dar, and estar
2. Uses of the verbs ser and estar
3. Ir a + infinitive
4. Contractions
Communication: Police work in the streets: dealing with gang members, arresting a thief
Leccion 4. Llamadas telefonicas
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The irregular verbs tener and venir
2. Expressions with tener
3. Comparative forms
4. Irregular comparative forms
Communication: 911 calls: receiving emergency calls, describing people
Leccion 5. Buenos vecinos
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Stem-changing verbs (e:ie)
2. The present progressive
3. Some uses of the definite article
Communication: Neighborhood policing: helping to implement a neighborhood watch program
Lectura 1. Denunciando actividades sospechosas
Repaso (Lecciones 1-5)
Leccion 6. El agente Chávez lee la advertencia Miranda
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Stem-changing verbs (o:ue)
2. Affirmative and negative expressions
3. Direct object pronouns
Communication: Detaining suspects: reading the Miranda Warning, dealing with traffic violations and DUI
Leccion 7. Problemas de la ciudad
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Stem-changing verbs (e:i)
2. Irregular first-person forms
3. Indirect object pronouns
Communication: Investigating a crime: talking to victims, suspects, and witnesses, dealing with the victim of a health condition
Leccion 8. Casos de maltrato de miembros de la familia
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
2. Special construction with gustar, doler, and hacer falta
3. Direct and indirect object pronouns used together
Communication: Investigating domestic abuse: dealing with the victim and the abuser
Leccion 9. La prueba de alcohol
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Possessive pronouns
2. Command forms: Ud. and Uds.
3. Reflexive constructions
4. Uses of object pronouns with command forms
Communication: Traffic police: stopping and interviewing drivers, administering a sobriety test, giving detailed directions
Leccion 10. La policía investiga un robo
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The preterit of regular verbs
2. The preterit of ser, ir, and dar
3. Uses of por and para
Communication: Investigating a burglary: Interviewing victims and witnesses on location
Lectura 2. Recomendaciones para prevenir el robo en las tiendas
Repaso (Lecciones 6-10)
Leccion 11.¡Más robos!
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Time expressions with hacer
2. Irregular preterits
3. The preterit of stem-changing verbs (e:i and o:u)
4. Command forms: tu
Communication: Investigating a burglary: Reporting a robbery, Interviewing victims at the police station
Leccion 12. Con un agente de la seccion de transito
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The imperfect tense
2. The past progressive
3. The preterit contrasted with the imperfect
4. En and a as equivalents of at
Communication: Traffic police: giving a ticket, issuing a warning, talking to a woman who left her baby in a locked car
Leccion 13. Un accidente
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. Hace meaning ago
2. Changes in meaning with the imperfect and preterit of conocer, saber, and querer
Communication: Witnessing an accident: interviewing witnesses, talking to accident victims
Leccion 14. Interrogatorios
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The past participle
2. The present perfect tense
3. The past perfect (pluperfect) tense
Communication: Interrogating a suspect
Leccion 15. Con la policía secreta
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The future tense
2. The conditional tense
Communication: Working undercover: infiltrating a gang, arresting solicitors of prostitution
Lectura 3. Seguridad doméstica: Robos
Evite el robo de su automovil
Repaso (Lecciones 11-15)
Leccion 16. En una celda de detencion preventiva
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The present subjunctive
2. The subjunctive with verbs of volition
Communication: Arresting and booking suspects: following established procedure before placing an arrested person in a detention cell
Leccion 17. Una muchacha se escapa de su casa
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The subjunctive to express emotion
2. The subjunctive with some impersonal expressions
Communication: Investigating runaways: talking to runaways and parents
Leccion 18. Una violacion
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The subjunctive to express doubt, disbelief, and denial
2. The subjunctive to express indefiniteness and nonexistence
Communication: Investigating rape: talking to rape victims on the phone and in person
Leccion 19. Una tarde cualquiera
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The subjunctive after certain conjunctions
2. The present perfect subjunctive
3. Uses of the present perfect subjunctive
Communication: Dealing with the parents of minors, talking with people who tried to commit suicide, more on traffic violations
Leccion 20. Otro día, por la mañana
Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar:
1. The imperfect subjunctive
2. Uses of the imperfect subjunctive
3. If clauses
Communication: More on investigating robberies: trying to get permission to search a car, arresting a pickpocket, dealing with an illegal gathering
Lectura 4. En casos de asaltos sexuales
Repaso (Lecciones 16-20)
Appendixes
A. Introduction to Spanish Sounds and the Alphabet
B. Verbs
C. Useful Classroom Expressions
D. Weights and Measures
