Spanish 2
Course Description
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.
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.
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