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1. Explain the concept of “conjugation”. How do you conjugate in Spanish? And in English? 2. Explain the difference between SER and ESTAR. Responses based in course materials that can be found in eLearn are ideal. 

Listen to the five following questions and answer them in the box below in full sentences in Spanish (5x 3pts each= 15 points) 

Lectura Read Juan Antonio’s e-mail to his sister and answer the questions with sentences. (5 x 2 pts. each = 10 pts.)   Estoy en la biblioteca que está al lado de la residencia estudiantil. Me gusta la biblioteca porque sólo1 hay once estudiantes ahora. Cuando deseo descansar, camino a la cafetería porque está muy cerca de la biblioteca y tomo un café2. Estudio aquí porque Dan, mi compañero de cuarto, está en la residencia con unos chicos y yo necesito preparar el examen de historia. El examen es el viernes a las 10 de la mañana. También necesito preparar la tarea de biología. Necesito estudiar mucho. 1only   2 coffee    1. ¿Dónde está la biblioteca? 2. ¿Por qué le gusta la biblioteca a Juan Antonio? 3. ¿Quién toma un café cuando necesita descansar? 4. ¿Quién es Dan? 5. ¿A qué hora es el examen de Juan Antonio?

Tú Write a paragraph in Spanish with at least five sentences in which you mention the courses your best friend is taking this semester, when they are (day and time), whether he/she likes the classes, whether he/she works, and the things he/she likes to do when they are not studying. Keep it simple and use exclusively vocabulary and grammar from lessons 1 and 2. (6 pts. for vocabulary + 6 pts. for grammar + 3 pts. for style and creativity= 15 pts.)

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Write any random fact you find interesting. Anything that is school appropriate and looks like it took one or more minutes of effort will receive credit.

Write a function named is_palindrome that accepts a string parameter and returns true if that string is a palindrome, or false if it is not a palindrome. For this problem, a palindrome is defined as a string that contains exactly the same sequence of characters forwards as backwards, case-insensitively. Spaces, punctuation, and any other characters should be treated the same as letters; so a multi-word string or string with numbers or punctuation would count as a palindrome too. Below are some sample calls Function Call Value Returned is_palindrome(“madam”) true is_palindrome(“RacCAr”) true is_palindrome(“dog god”) true is_palindrome(“123 $$ 321”) true is_palindrome(“madham”) false is_palindrome(“antena”) false is_palindrome(“Taco cat”) false is_palindrome(TACOcat) true