Objective.
Reading with comprehension.

Method.
In this exercise, there are four statements about Mexican culture. Read them carefully and, based on the texts from your manual, decide whether each statement is true or false. Below, you will find an analysis of each statement.

Analysis.

Frida Kahlo was influenced by indigenous cultures.

Open your manual to page 122. Read the text about Frida Kahlo at the bottom of the page. You will see that the text says Kahlo was indeed influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico, thus this statement is true.

The Andrés Barbero Museum of Ethnography is in Mexico.

For this task, turn to page 116 in your manual. At the bottom, there is a text about the Museum of Anthropology. Read it carefully and pay attention to the Andrés Barbero Museum. You will notice that it is actually located in the capital of Paraguay, which means that this statement is false.

San Andrés is the capital of Mexico.

In this case, you already know this statement is false. The capital of Mexico is Mexico City, as is stated on page 82 in your manual.

Tortillas and enchiladas are typical Mexican dishes.

For the last statement, remain on the same page and take a look at “comida típica”. You will notice that both tortillas and enchiladas are listed, thus this statement is true.

1. T
2. F
3. F
4. T

Objective.
Reading with comprehension.

Method.
In this exercise, there are five statements about culture in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. You will read the statements carefully and decide which option fits best. You will find all the relevant information in your manual in texts about culture. You may refer to the below analysis for further guidance.

Analysis.

The Piedra del Sol was a _ that the Aztecs created.

Turn your manual to page 116 and read the text at the bottom. In the middle, it says that the Sun Stone was indeed a calendar created by the Aztecs.

_ is an important industry in the Dominican Republic.

Skip to page 127 in your manual. You will find a text by a local student. Read the text thoroughly. You will notice how the student says that tourism is very important for the Dominican economy.

Two of the languages spoken in Mexico are Spanish and _.

Go back to page 82. Once again, read the data at the bottom of the page. Under “idiomas”, you will notice that Mayan is listed as one of the indigenous languages. Furthermore, by now you have learned that only in Brasil do they speak Portuguese in Latin America.

Mexican currency is called the _.

By now, you have learned that the currency in Mexico is called the peso. You can confirm this on page 82 in your manual, under “moneda”.

The National Museum of _ contains artifacts from indigenous cultures of Mexico.

For the last statement, go back to page 116. Read the text once again and pay attention to the above museum. You will notice that it is the Museum of Anthropology and that it is located in Mexico.

1. calendar
2. Tourism
3. Maya
4. peso
5. Anthropology

Objective.
The purpose of this exercise is to practise writing in Spanish.

Method.
Open your manual to page 122 and read the text about Frida Kahlo. Extract essential information and use it to write a short paragraph about the artist. There are a number of ways how you can write this paragraph, thus only refer to the below example as a reference of how your text might look like.

Note: you are expected to write in the past even though you have not learned how to use past tenses in Spanish. This will influence the format of the below example.

Example.

Cuando hablamos de Frida Kahlo, hablamos de una artista globalmente conocida por su obra influenciada por las culturas indígenas de México. Nacida en México, Frida Kahlo lleva el arte tanto al lienzo como a la ropa: sus rasgos indígenas se notan tanto en su pintura como en su forma de vestir.