Course Outline

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Spanish 1:

 

Course Description:

Spanish 1 is an introduction to Spanish and focuses on the four key areas of foreign language study: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The primary purpose of the course is to prepare students to be college-ready, well-rounded global citizens who can communicate effectively in Spanish and are aware of the cultural influences of the Spanish and Latino heritage at home and abroad. Students in this course will learn Spanish phonemes and basic vocabulary including numbers, colors, and greetings. Students will be expected to master proper Spanish sentence constructions, articles and adjectives, subject-verb agreement, and regular and irregular verb conjugations. As part of the course, students will be provided opportunities to read, write, listen, and speak Spanish while they work towards becoming linguistically and culturally literate.

 

This course includes a broad series of lessons and activities that offer a variety of modalities for ultimate student engagement and content retention. Each unit contains a series of lessons that include introduction of content, virtual demonstration of that content, and repeated opportunity to practice that content, along with a quiz per lesson, exam per unit, and final exam at the end of the course.

 

Spanish 1A

 

Module 1: Mis amigos y yo

 

• Explore cultural differences with greetings, phonetics, and feelings

• Learn how to ask for and give names, greet people, say goodbye

• Learn the alphabet, Spanish countries, numbers 1-20

• Learn how to tell the time

• Talk about activities you like and do not like to do

• Learn how to ask others what they like to do

• Understand and cultural perspectives on favorite activities

• Learn how to talk about personality traits

• Learn how to ask and tell what people are like

• Use adjectives to describe activities and preferences

 

Module 2: La Escuela

 

• Explore cultural differences with school and education, classroom objects, rooms, tools, and student schedules

• Learn how to state location, expressing the plural of nouns thereby developing a stronger understanding of basic linguistic differences between English and Spanish

• Learn how to hold a very brief introductory conversation

• Understand the subtleties of gender differences between objects and places

• Discuss what students do during the day

• Learn how to ask and tell who is doing an action

• Learn how to indicate where things are located

• Talk about more than one object or person

• Understand cultural perspectives on school

• Compare school and after-school activities in Spanish-speaking countries and the United States 

 

  

Module 3: La Comida

 

• Learn about foods and beverages for breakfast and lunch

• Discuss likes and dislikes

• Express how often something is done

• Understand cultural perspectives on meals

• Discuss food, health, and exercise choices

• Understand cultural perspectives on diet and health

• Compare eating habits in Spain, Latin America, and the United States

• Learn interrogative expressions, reply words, people, and personal identification

 

Module 4: Los Pasatiempos

 

• Describe locations in your community

• Discuss leisure activities

• Discuss where you go and with whom

• Learn how to ask questions

• Understand cultural perspectives on leisure activities

• Discuss activities outside of school

• Extend, accept, and decline invitations

• Tell when an event happens

• Understand cultural perspectives on after-school activities

• Compare team sports and youth activities in the United States and Spanish-speaking countries

• Explore vocabulary for feelings, places and buildings in the city and country, prepositions of place, and means of transportation

 

Spanish 1B

 

Module 1: Fiesta en familia

 

• Discuss families

• Describe celebrations and parties

• Learn how to ask and tell ages

• Express possession

• Understand cultural perspectives on family and celebrations

• Describe family celebrations

• Describe family members and friends

• Learn how to politely ask to have something brought to you

• Learn how to order a meal in a restaurant

• Understand cultural perspectives on family celebrations

• Discuss and compare a family from a Spanish-speaking region of the world such as Venezuela or Ecuador with a typical American Family

• Explore vocabulary words for school, family members and pets, rooms, and parts of the house as well activities involving people

 

 

 

Module 2: La Casa

 

• Describe bedroom items and electronic equipment

• Learn how to make comparisons

• Understand cultural perspectives on homes 

• Identify rooms in a house

• Name household chores

• Describe where you live

• Understand cultural perspectives on different types of housing

• Discuss and compare a households and customs from a Spanish-speaking region of the world with a typical American home

• Explore vocabulary words for food items, menu and basic ordering, place settings, preposition of place, using preposition of place, chores, rooms, and parts of the house

  

 

Module 3: De compras

 

• Discuss clothes, shopping, and prices

• Describe your plans

• Discuss what you want and what you prefer

• Point out specific items

• Understand cultural perspectives on shopping

• Discuss buying gifts

• Tell what happened in the past

• Use direct object pronouns

• Understand cultural perspectives on gift giving

• Discuss and compare clothing, accessories, and shopping between Spain along with Latin countries to those of the U.S.

• Explore vocabulary words for personal description, clothing, colors, numbers, personal care, daily routine activities, and revisit time

activities and what they like to do in their free time.

 

Module 4: Experiencias

 

• Discus things to do on vacation

• Describe places to visit while on vacation

• Discuss events in the past

• Understand cultural perspectives on travel and vacations

• Discuss volunteer work and ways to protect the environment

• Describe about what people say

• Discuss what people did for others

• Understand cultural perspectives on volunteer work

• Discuss and compare vacation spots in Spanish-speaking regions of the world

• Explore vocabulary words for travel, preposition of place, place settings, pastimes, countries, and vacation

 

 

Module 5: Medios de comunicacion

 

• Describe movies and television programs

• Express opinions and media entertainment

• Discuss things you have done recently

• Understand cultural perspectives on common gestures

• Discuss computers and the Internet

• Learn how to ask for something and to tell what something is used for

• Discuss knowing people or knowing how to do things

• Understand cultural perspectives on using technology

• Discuss and compare a entertainment and media from various speaking locations to entertainment and media in the U.S.

• Explore vocabulary words for entertainment, genres, pastimes revisited, expressions with days of the week, activities, and expressions of time

Spanish 2:

Course Description:

Spanish 2 continues the study of Spanish by expanding meaningful expression in both speaking and writing.  Each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking, and writing activities, multimedia cultural presentations, and interactive activities and practices that reinforce vocabulary and grammar.  This course includes a strong emphasis on providing context and conversational examples for the language concepts presented in each unit.  Students are actively engaged in their own language learning, understand common vocabulary terms and phrases, use a wide range of grammar patterns in their speaking and writing, participate in conversations and respond appropriately to conversational prompts, analyze and compare cultural practices, products, and perspectives of various Spanish-speaking countries, and take frequent assessments where their language progression can be monitored.  

 

This course includes a broad series of lessons and activities that offer a variety of modalities for ultimate student engagement and content retention. Each unit contains a series of lessons that include introduction of content, virtual demonstration of that content, and repeated opportunity to practice that content, along with a quiz per lesson, exam per unit, and final exam at the end of the course.

 

Spanish 2A

 
 

Module 1: Tu dia escolar

 

• Describe classroom objects and activities

• Discuss classroom rules

• Express affirmative and negative ideas

• Compare the school rules and customs in other countries with those of your own school

• Discuss extracurricular activities

• Compare people and things

• State what people know or what they know how to do

• Describe with whom or what people are familiar with

• Learn how to ask and tell how long something has been going on

• Understand cultural perspectives on extracurricular activities

• Explore the verb tener and saber, affirmative and negative words, and making comparisons

 

Module 2: Un evento especial

 

• Describe getting ready for a special event

• Discuss daily routines

• Describe people and things

• Express possession

• Describe clothing and fashion

• Discuss going shopping

• Describe events in the past

• Point out specific objects

• Avoid repetition when comparing similar things

• Understand cultural perspectives on clothing

• Discover differences among daily routines and what types of shopping options are available (malls, department stores, etc.)

• Explore ser and estar, verbs and expressions that use the infinitive, and reflexive verbs

• Examine possessive adjectives, cardinal numbers, preterite of regular verbs, demonstrative adjectives, and using adjectives as nouns

 

Module 3: Tu y tu comunidad

 

• Discuss things you did and where you did them

• Explain why you could not do certain things

• Describe things you bought and w here you bought them

• Give directions for getting to places

• Give a friend directions for a task

• Discuss driving and good driving habits

• Understand cultural perspectives on neighborhoods

• Learn how to discuss time

• Examine direct object pronouns and irregular preterite verbs, irregular affirmative commands, and present progressive: irregular forms

 

 

Module 4: Recuerdos del pasado

 

• Discuss childhood toys and games

• Describe what you were like as a child

• Discuss activities that you used to do as a child

• Discuss to or for whom something is done

• Describe holiday celebrations

• Describe your family and relatives

• Describe people, places, and situations in the past

• Discuss how people interact

• Understand cultural perspectives on childhood songs

• Examine suffixes, the imperfect tense, indirect object pronouns; preterite and imperfect: describing a situation, and reciprocal actions

 

Module 5: En las noticias

 

• Discuss emergencies, crises, recues, and heroic acts

• Describe past situations and settings

• Describe weather conditions

• Describe an accident scene

• Discuss injuries and treatments

• Discuss what you were doing when an accident occurred

• Understand cultural perspectives on childhood songs

• Examine expressions using tener, and the use of ¡Que ¡ in exclamations

• Examine the preterite of the verbs oir, leer, creer, and destruir and irregular preterites, imperfect progressive and preterite

 

 

Spanish 2B

 

 

Module 1: La televisión y el cine

 

• Describe what you saw on televisión

• Explain how you feel about watching televisión

• Discuss movie plots and characters

• Discuss opinions about movies

• Describe activities you have done

• Understand cultural perspectives on televisión programs in Spanish-speaking countries and explore cultural perspectives in movies

• Examine the preterite of stem changing verbs, verbs that use indirect object pronouns, and the present perfect.

 

Module 2: Buen Provecho

 

• Discuss food and cooking

• Tell others what not to do

• Describe what people generally do

• Discuss food and outdoor cooking

• Indicate the duration, exchange, reason, and other expressions

• Understand cultural perspectives on recipes and food preparation

• Understand cultural perspectives on special foods and outdoor vendors

• Examine verbs with irregular yo forms, negative tu commands, usted and ustedes commands, uses of por

 

Module 3: Como se r un buen turista

 

• Discuss visiting an airport

• Plan for a trip to a foreign country

• Make suggestions about safe travel

• Read about travel destinations in Spanish-Speaking countries

• Discuss traveling in a foreign city

• Describe staying in a hotel

• Explain how to be a good tourist

• Make recommendations for sightseeing

• Understand cultural perspectives on travelling in Spanish-speaking countries

• Examine the infinitive in verbal expressions, the present subjunctive, irregular verbs in the subjunctive

• Examine present subjunctive with impersonal expressions and present subjunctive of stem-changing verbs

 

Module 4: ¿Cómo será el futuro?

 

• Discuss professions and make plans for the future

• Describe future events

• Make predictions about the future

• Express doubts about ecological issues

• Discuss environmental problems and possible solutions

• Understand cultural perspectives on folk art and cultural perspectives on ecological problems and solutions

• Examine verbs with spelling changes in the present tense, the future tense, the future tense irregular verbs and the present subjunctive with expressions of doubt

 

Spanish3:

Spanish 3 focuses on the past, future and compound tenses, vocabulary usage and contextual comprehension is essential. This course builds up on fundamentals learned and master in Spanish I. The same emphasis that Spanish I and 2 had in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, useful phrases, and the ability to understand read, write, listen, and speak simple Spanish will be continue in this course. Also, this course will continue and further explore the cultural exposure to the wonders found in the Spanish world.

Course Objectives:

This course stresses the usage of appropriate Spanish and enables the student in the following areas:

• To further develop speaking and listening skills learned in Spanish I and II.

• To further build writing using appropriate Spanish grammar (different verb tenses, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, etc.) at a basic/intermediate level in variety of new settings.

• To further build reading and comprehension skills of elementary/intermediate Spanish.

• To continue the exposure to the Spanish culture that started in Spanish I and Spanish II.

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Engage in conversations, provide, and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.

• Understand and interpret written and spoken Spanish on a variety of topics.

• Present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices and perspectives of the Spanish and Hispanic cultures and make comparisons between these cultures and your own.

• Reinforce and further your knowledge of other disciplines (math, science, art, etc.) using Spanish.

• Show evidence of becoming a life-long learner by using Spanish for your personal enjoyment and enrichment.

A smart suggestion is to begin your own Spanish Dictionary/Glossary so that as you learn new vocabulary you add it to your glossary so you maintain a working glossary of what you are expected to know!

1. Bienvenidos al español III!

• Introductory information

• Course Description

• Understanding Plagiarism

• Repaso de adjetivos y sustantivos

• Spanish Accents and Characters

• Spanish Links

• Course Links

• Handout: Repaso de conceptos de español 1 y 2

• Assignment: Noun and adjective review

• Quiz: Quiz: Repaso

 

1. Latinoamérica – Latin America

• Vocabulario

• Latinoamérica

• español Más práctica

1. Repaso del presente y los tiempos pasados

• Vocabulario

• El repaso del presente parte 1

• El repaso del presente parte 2

• El repaso del pretérito

• El repaso del imperfecto

• El repaso del Pretérito vs. Imperfecto

• Handout: Repaso del concepto de los verbos de cambio de raíz Parte 1

• Handout: Repaso del concepto de los verbos de cambio de raíz Parte 2

• Handout: Regular verbs preterite simplify

• Handout: Preterite vs Imperfect summary

• Handout: Preterite vs Imperfect rules

• Handout: Preterite vs Imperfect helpful words

• Assignment: Un dia en mi vida (Speaking Assignment)

• Assignment: Un dia en mi vida (Written Assignment)

• Assignment: Cuano yo era niño… (Speaking Assignment)

• Assignment: Cuando yo era niño(a)… (Writing Assignment)

 

1. Repaso del futuro y condicional

• Vocabulario

• El repaso del futuro

• El repaso del condicional

• Assignment: Mis planes para el futuro son… (Speaking Assignment)

• Assignment: Mis planes para el futuro son… (Writing Assignment)

 

1. Repaso del presente perfecto

• Vocabulario

• El repaso del presente perfecto o preterito perfecto

• Los participios para el presente perfecto

• Worksheet: Worksheet: Tiempos compuestos

• Assignment: Y todavía lo sigo haciendo (Speaking assignment)

• Assignment: Y todavía lo sigo haciendo (Written assignment)

 

1. El día de la independencia (Cultura)

• Vocabulario

• El día de la independencia

• Handout: El día de la independencia proyecto

• Assignment: El día de la independencia proyecto (Written Assignment)

 

1. Vocabulario para viajar

• Vocabulario

• En el aeropuerto y el avión

• Handout: En el aeropuerto assignment/quiz

• Assignment: En el aeropuerto assignment/quiz

• En el hotel

• Handout: En el hotel assignment/quiz

• Vocabulario extra

• Assignment: En el aeropuerto… (Speaking assignment)

• Assignment: En el aeropuerto… (Written assignment)

• Assignment: En el hotel assignment/quiz

• Assignment: Un día en mi viaje (Written Assignment)

 

1. El imperativo y sus usos con los Objector indirectos y directoss

• Vocabulario

• El imperativo familiar (informal)

• El imperativo con Ud y Uds. (Formal)

• El imperativo con los objetos directos

• El imperativo con los objetos indirectos

• El imperativo con los reflexivos y …

• Handout: Direct Object Pronoun notes

• Handout: Indirect Object Pronoun notes

• Assignment: Haz lo que te digo, por favor!

• Assignment: Práctica con el pronombre directo

 

1. Repaso de por vs para

• Vocabulario

• Por vs. Para

• Repaso de por vs para

• Assignment: Por vs Para practice #1

• Assignment: Por vs Para practice #2

• Handout: Por vs para worksheet #2

 

1. Los adjectivos, los pronombres y sus usos

• Vocabulario

• Los adjetivos superlativos, los comparativos y un poquito más

• Los adjetivos y los pronombres demostrativos

• Los adjetivos y los pronombres posesivos

• Essay: Demonstratives and poessives

 

1. Hispanos (españoles) famosos

• Hispanos Famosos

• Hispanos famosos, parte 2

• Famous hispanics

• Handout: Instrucciones para el proyecto hispanos famosos

• Handout: Ejemplo para el proyecto hispanos famosos

• Assignment: El proyecto de los hispanos famosos

 

1. Mid Term Exam

• Mid Term Exam

• Mid Term Exam

• Handout: Mid Term exam

• Assignment: Mid Term Exam

 

1. Vocabulario para hablar de emergencias

• Vocabulario para emergencias

• Assignment: Práctica con el vocabulario

• El Día del accidente

• El Accidente

• Essay: El día del accidente (Speaking)

• Essay: El día del accidente (Written)

 

1. El “se” impersonal

• El uso del “se” impersonal

• Ejemplos del uso del SE Impersonal y Pasivo

• Un Tutorial – Passive Se

• Assignment: Haz tus propias carteles/señales del uso de “SE”

• Assignment: Práctica del uso del “se

 

1. El subjuntivo parte 1 Los regulares

• ¿Qué es el subjuntivo y para qué se usa? Parte 1

• ¿Qué es el subjuntivo y para qué se usa? Parte 2

• Casos que hay que recordar-Parte 3

 

1. El subjuntivo parte 2 – Los irregulares

• Los verbos irregulares

• Situaciones especiales

• Using the definite article

• Essay: Los conquistadores

• Assignment: Pronombres relativos

 

1. Simón Bolívar el Libertador

• Simón Bolívar el libertador

• Simon Bolivar Handout

• Assignment: El proyecto de Simón Bolívar el Libertador

 

1. El subjuntivo parte 3

• Sequencia de tiempos en el subjuntivo

• Los tipos de cláusulas- Sustantivas

• Los tipos de cláusulas- Adjetivales

• Los tipos de cláusulas-Adverbiales

• Assignment: Práctica con cláusulas sustantivas

• Essay: Práctica con cláusulas adjetivales

• Assignment: Práctica con cláusulas adverbiales

 

1. El mercado laboral y las tecnologías vocabulario

• Las professiones y el vocabulario relacionado

• La Tecnología

• Assignment: Habla de lo que haces en línea

 

1. Project Video resume

• Instrucciones para el proyecto “Video Resume”

• Assignment: Rough draft

• Assignment: Proyecto Video Resume

 

1. Final Exam

Final Exam