Spanish 3 Assignments

Syllabus Spanish 3 2013-2014 Teacher: Malena Downes Description: 1 credit Prerequisite: Spanish 2 Spanish 3 will develop a higher level of thinking of competence in the four areas of communication: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students engage in teacher led discussions, study advanced grammatical concepts. They study Spanish culture in depth. Students understand main ideas and some detail when listening and reading and learn to cope successfully in simple conversation and survival situations. 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 3 First quarter Chapter 4B (book 2)Theme: Recuerdos del pasado (Memories of the past) Celebrando los dias festivos/ Celebrating holidays. • Describe holiday celebrations • Talk about your family and relatives • Describe people, places, and situations in the past. • Talk about how people interact. • Understand cultural perspectives on holidays and special events. • Vocabulary: Special events, manners and customs/ Grammar: The imperfect tense, describing a situation, reciprocal actions, Chapter 5A (book 2) Theme: En las noticias (on the news) Un acto heroic/ Heroic act. • Discuss emergencies, crises, rescues, and heroic acts. • Describe past situations, and settings. • Describe weather conditions. • Understand cultural perspectives on natural disasters and legends. • Vocabulary: Natural disasters, the news, rescues. Grammar: The imperfect tense, other uses of the preterite of the verb oir, leer, creer, destruir. Second quarter Chapter 5B (book2) Theme: En las noticias (on the news) Un accidente/ An accident • Describe an accident scene. • Talk about injuries and treatments. • Talk about what you were doing when the accident occurred. • Understand cultural perspectives on health. • Vocabulary: Treatment for medical conditions, words related to an accident, parts of the body. Chapter 6A (book 2) Theme: La television y el cine (TV and movies) Viste el partido en la television/Did you see the game on tv? • Talk about what you saw on tv. • Explain how you feel about watching tv. • Understanding cultural perspectives on television programs in Spanish –speaking countries. • Vocabulary: sporting events, emotions, contests./ Grammar: preterite of stem-changing verbs. Third quarter Chapter 6B (book 2) Theme: La television y el cine (TV and movies) Que peliculas has visto? / What movies have you seen? • Discuss movie plots and characters. • Give opinion about movies. • Talk about activities you have done. • Understand cultural perspectives on movies. • Vocabulary: movies movie production. / Grammar: Verbs that use the indirect object pronoun, and present perfect. Chapter 7A (book 2) Theme: Buen provecho (Bon appetite) Como se hace la paella? / How is the paella made? • Talk about food and cooking. • Tell others what not to do. • Describe what people generally do • Understand cultural perspectives on recipes and food preparation. • Vocabulary: food and cooking, following recipes, giving instructions in the kitchen? /Grammar: Negative tu commands, the impersonal se. Fourth quarter Chapter 7B (book 2) Theme: Buen provecho (Bon appetite) Te gusta comer al aire libre?/ Do you like to eat outdoors? • Discuss food and outdoor cooking. • Tell people what to do or not to do. • Indicate duration, exchange, reason, and other expressions. • Understand cultural perspectives on special foods and outdoor food vendors. • Vocabulary: food, the outdoors, eating outdoors./Grammar: Usted and Ustedes commands, Por. Chapter 8A (book 2) Theme: Como ser un buen turista (How to be a good tourist) Un viaje en avion/ A trip by plane. • Talk about visiting an airport. • Plan for a trip to a foreign country. • Make suggestions about safe travel. • Read about travel destinations in Spanish-speaking countries. • Understand cultural perspectives on traveling. • Vocabulary: visiting an airport, taking a trip to a foreign country, safe travel./ Grammar: The present subjunctive, irregular verbs ser, estar, ir, saber, dar.