Conversational Spanish Grammar for the Hospitality Classroom

Conversational Spanish Grammar for the Hospitality Classroom......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 6
About the Author......Page 10
To the Students......Page 11
PART I: RESTAURANT OPERATIONS......Page 13
The Sounds in Spanish......Page 15
Common Expressions......Page 17
Introductions......Page 18
Communication and Courtesy......Page 19
Farewells......Page 21
Subject Pronouns......Page 22
Present Tense of ser, estar, and tener......Page 23
Technical Restaurant Vocabulary (I)......Page 26
Auxiliary Vocabulary Words......Page 28
The Present Tense of Regular Verbs......Page 29
Most Common Interrogative Words in Spanish......Page 32
Negations......Page 34
Technical Restaurant Vocabulary (II)......Page 37
Auxiliary Vocabulary Words......Page 39
Definite Articles......Page 40
Indefinite Articles......Page 41
Spanish Nouns......Page 42
The Spanish Verb......Page 45
Technical Restaurant Vocabulary (III)......Page 49
Auxiliary Vocabulary Words......Page 51
The Present Tense of Irregular Verbs......Page 52
The Verb Ir Followed by the Word a and an Infinitive......Page 55
Cardinal Numbers......Page 56
Ordinal Numbers......Page 58
Telling the Time of Day in Spanish......Page 59
PART II: KITCHEN OPERATIONS......Page 63
Technical Kitchen Vocabulary (I)......Page 65
Descriptive Adjectives......Page 68
Possessive Adjectives......Page 73
Demonstrative Adjectives......Page 76
Adjectives of Nationality......Page 78
Colors......Page 79
Adjectives as Nouns......Page 81
Technical Kitchen Vocabulary (II)......Page 83
The Present Tense of Stem-Changing Verbs......Page 87
The Expression Hay que Plus an Inifinitive......Page 89
The Expression Tener que Plus an Infinitive......Page 90
The Expressions Antes de and Despues de Plus an Infinitive......Page 91
Technical Kitchen Vocabulary (III)......Page 94
Commands (Giving Orders or Advice)......Page 96
The Calendar......Page 99
Days of the Week......Page 100
Months of the Year (los meses del año)......Page 102
PART III: HOUSEKEEPING OPERATIONS......Page 107
Technical Housekeeping Vocabulary (I)......Page 109
The Present Tense of Reflexive Verbs......Page 112
List of Common Reflexive Verbs......Page 113
Reflexive Verbs and Commands......Page 115
With Time and Weather Expressions......Page 120
The Weather......Page 121
Technical Housekeeping Vocabulary (II)......Page 124
Auxiliary Vocabulary Words......Page 127
The Preterit of Regular Verbs......Page 128
The Preterit of Irregular Verbs......Page 130
Stem Changes in the Preterit Tense......Page 132
The Use of a in Spanish Before Persons......Page 133
Technical Housekeeping Vocabulary (III)......Page 137
The Imperfect Indicative of Regular and Irregular Verbs......Page 141
Use of the Imperfect......Page 142
Spanish Prepositions......Page 144
The Uses Of Por And Para......Page 147
PART IV: ENGINEERING OPERATIONS......Page 153
Technical Engineering Vocabulary (I)......Page 155
List of Adjectives Commonly Used with Ser (less commonly, some of these adjectives can also be used with estar)......Page 157
List of Adjectives Commonly Used with Estar (less commonly, some of these adjectives can also be used with ser)......Page 158
Uses of Ser......Page 159
Uses of Estar......Page 161
Ser Versus Estar......Page 164
To Be Substituted by Tener......Page 165
The Present Progressive Tense......Page 167
Uses of the Present Progressive Tense......Page 169
Technical Engineering Vocabulary (II)......Page 172
Direct Object Pronouns......Page 175
Indirect Object Pronouns......Page 177
Direct and Indirect Pronouns Used Together in the Same Sentence......Page 179
Object Pronouns and Commands......Page 180
Object Pronouns with the Infinitive Form and the Present Progressive Tense......Page 181
Adverbs of Time......Page 182
Technical Engineering Vocabulary (III)......Page 186
The Present Perfect Tense......Page 189
Adverbs of Manner......Page 191
Comparison of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Nouns......Page 192
PART V: HUMAN RESOURCES (PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT)......Page 195
Technical Human Resources Vocabulary (I)......Page 197
The Future Tense......Page 200
The Present Subjunctive Tense......Page 202
Uses of the Present Subjunctive......Page 203
The Subjunctive after Expressions of Time......Page 210
Adverbs of Place......Page 211
Technical Human Resources Vocabulary (II)......Page 214
The Conditional Tense......Page 217
The Imperfect Subjunctive (Past Subjunctive)......Page 219
Adverbs of Intensity......Page 221
Technical Human Resources Vocabulary (III)......Page 224
Grammatical Expressions......Page 226
Nonprofessional Vocabulary......Page 230
Expressions of Emotion......Page 231
GLOSSARY......Page 235
INDEX......Page 253