Spanish for Law Enforcement: Basic Spanish Guide Series (Basic Spanish Series) - Tapa blanda

Leccion preliminary. 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 policia. 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 sospechosasRepaso (Lecciones 1-5). Leccion 6. El agente Chavez 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 policia 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. !Mas 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 suspects. Leccion 15. Con la policia 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 domestica: Robos. Evite el robo de su automovil. Repaso (Lecciones 11-15). Leccion 16. En una celda de detencion preventive. 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 dia, por la manana. 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) Appendix A: Introduction to Spanish Sounds and the Alphabet. Appendix B: Verbs. Appendix C: Useful Classroom Expressions. Appendix D: Weights and Measures. Spanish-English Vocabulary. English-Spanish Vocabulary.

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