Spanish 2 Assignments

Syllabus Spanish 2 2013-2014 Description: 1 credit Prerequisite: Spanish 1 Spanish 2 continues to build student’s skills in the four basic areas of communication, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In level 2 they further develop their understanding of grammatical concepts and increase their cultural knowledge. Students learn to produce phrases and sentences when speaking and writing. Goals: The five C’s of Language Education. 1. Communication: Students develop communicative abilities in three modes: interpersonal, interpretative, and presentational, integrating the skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and showing. 2. Cultures: Students learn about and experience other cultures. 3. Connections: Students use language to acquire new information and knowledge in other subject areas. 4. Comparisons: Students learn the nature of language and culture by comparing other languages and cultures with their own. 5. Communities: Students use languages to participate in communities both home and around the world. Expectations: The student is expected to: • Engage in oral and written exchanges to socialize, to express preferences and feelings, and to satisfy basic needs. • Demonstrate an understanding of simple, straightforward spoken and written language such as instructions, directions, announcements, reports, conversations, brief descriptions, and narrations. • Present information and convey short messages on everyday topics to listeners and readers. Spanish 2 Course topics: First quarter Culture: Review of the 21 Spanish Speaking countries, their location with maps, and Capital cities. Vocabulary: major geographical names: Oceans, Rivers, Continents. Chapter 5B (book 1) Theme: A restaurant / Vamos a un restaurant/ Let’s go to a restaurant. • Describe family members and friends. • Ask politely to have something brought to you. • Order a meal in a restaurant. • Restaurant vocabulary /Grammar: Verb venir (to come), Ser and Estar (to be) Chapter 6A (book 1) Theme: La casa (the house) En mi dormitorio/ my bedroom. • Talk about your bedroom. • Describe bedroom items and electronic equipment. • Make comparisons. • Understand cultural perspectives on home. • Grammar: The superlative, stem-changing verbs : poder and dormir. Second quarter Chapter 6B (book 1) Theme: La casa (the house) Como es tu casa?/ What does your house look like? • Identify rooms in a house • Name household chores. • Tell where you live. • Understand cultural perspectives on different types of housing. • Grammar: Affirmative Tu commands, The present progressive tense. Chapter 1B (book 2) Theme: Tu dia escolar (a school day) Que haces despues de las clases?/ What do you do after school? • Talk about extracurricular activities. • Compare people and things. • Say what people know or what they know how to do. • Say with whom or what people are familiar. • Ask and tell how long something has been going on. • Understand cultural perspectives on extracurricular activities. • Grammar: making comparisons, verbs saber and conocer (to Third quarter: Chapter 2A (book 2) Theme: Un evento especial ( A special event) Como te prepares?/ Getting ready for a special event. • Describe getting ready for a special event. • Talk about daily routines. • Describe people and things. • Express possession. • Understand cultural perspectives on clothing. • Vocabulary daily routine, clothing. Grammar: reflexive verbs, Ser and Estar, possessive adjectives. Chapter 2B (book 2) Theme: Un evento especial (a special event) Que ropa compraste?/ What clothes did you buy? • Describe clothing and fashion. • Talk about going shopping. • Describe events in the past. • Point out specific objects. • Avoid repetition when comparing similar things. • Vocabulary: shopping, clothing, purchases/ Grammar: preterite of regular verbs, demonstrative adjectives, using adjectives as nouns. Fourth quarter Chapter 3A (book 2) Theme: Tu y tu comunidad ( You and your community) Que hiciste ayer? / What did you do yesterday? • Talk about things you did and where you did them. • Explain why you couldn’t do certain things. • Describe things you bought and where you bought them. • Understand cultural perspectives on shopping. • Vocabulary: places around town, errands/ Grammar: direct object pronouns: lo, la, los, las; preterite forms of : ir, ser, hacer, tener, estar, poder. Chapter 3B (book 2) Theme: Tu y tu comunidad (you and your community) Como se va..?/ How do you get to..? • Give directions to getting to places. • Give a friend directions for a task. • Discuss driving and good driving habits. • Understand cultural perspectives on neighborhoods. • Vocabulary: words related to driving, directions / Grammar: direct object pronouns, me te nos, irregular affirmative tu commands; present progressive irregular forms. • Grammar: Imperfect tense: regular and irregular verbs.