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BASIC SPANISH FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT offers diversified business topics and vocabulary, technology-related terms, cultural notes, and activities on business culture and practices - correlated to the cultural notes - to check and reinforce students' business cross-cultural competency.

Basic Spanish for Law Enforcement

LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 1.
En una estaciA3n de policA­a. 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 4.
Llamadas telefA3nicas. 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.
LecciA3n 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).
LecciA3n 6.
El agente ChA!vez 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 10.
La policA­a 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).
LecciA3n 11.
!MA!s 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: tAo. Communication: Investigating a burglary: Reporting a robbery, Interviewing victims at the police station.
LecciA3n 12.
Con un agente de la secciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 15.
Con la policA­a 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 domA©stica: Robos. Evite el robo de su automA3vil. Repaso (Lecciones 11-15).
LecciA3n 16.
En una celda de detenciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 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
LecciA3n 18.
Una violaciA3n. 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.
LecciA3n 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.
LecciA3n 20.
Otro dA­a, por la maA±ana. 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.