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Make simple introductory conversation
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use appropriate greetings and goodbyes
Say your name and ask others for theirs
Say your nationality
Introduce yourself and others
Identify nouns as masculine, feminine, singular, or plural
Identify people, things, and places
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Use the numbers (time, age, hours, telephone number)
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Count in Spanish
Use the present tense of the verb ‘ser’
Identify and say telephone numbers
Tell the current time
Indicate when an event takes place
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Express different actions
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Talk about things you do and don’t do, using ‘-ar’, ‘-er’, ‘-ir’ regular and irregular verbs
Understand what each action means
Share your hobbies with your classmates
Form negative sentences
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Share your preferences, likes and dislikes
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use the verb ‘gustar’ to express preferences
Use the pronouns to accompany the verb ‘gustar’
Share your likes and dislikes with your classmates
Practice the intonation to voice questions
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Describe and talk about people
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Describe family relationships
Identify various professions
Ask others about their families
Describe people’s physical attributes, personality, traits and occupation
Identify the correct forms and placement of adjectives
Talk about your family
Talk and ask others about your preferences
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Explore traditions, nationalities and belongings
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Talk about the Hispanic world
Identify your nationality as well as other’s own nationalities
Match adjectives in gender and number
Compare traditions and the folklore
Talk about what you and other people own or have
Ask and share where a person comes from
Describe people, places and things
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Identify professions and occupations
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Identify jobs, professions and occupations
Say where you work at and when
Indicate who or what you would like to become
Describe your job preferences
Measure the pros and cons of a particular job
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Speak in Spanish
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Pronounce different sounds in Spanish
Practice speaking and listening in Spanish
Talk with you classmates, focusing on pronunciation
Learn the voiceless ‘h’, the ñ sound, the ‘c’, ‘z’ and ‘s’ sounds. and the ‘rr’ sound.
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Describe pastimes and hobbies
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Make plans and invitations
Identify hobbies people have and describe them
Speak about actions or project you initiate and end
Use the ‘ir a + infinitive’ to express events that are imminent
Describe places in the city, and what people do in those locations
Say what you are going to do and with whom
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Make plans about going on vacation
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Discuss and plan vacations
Be familiar with vocabulary related to travels and trips
Talk about seasons and the weather
Use terms related to traveling and vacation
Describe what activity you can do during each season
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences
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Use ser and estar
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use ‘ser’ to identify your nationality, occupation, characteristics of people and things, time and date
Use ‘estar’ to explain where you or others are, your health, emotional and physical states and weather conditions
Describe how you and others feel
React to circumstances and events using the verb ‘estar’
Use the present progressive of regular and irregular verbs to indicate what actions you are doing
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences currently
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Describe and talk about the weather
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Identify what the weather is like
Express how this weather affects you and others
Discuss the four different seasons and verbs related to each season
Associate each season to a specific weather
Compare the weather in your city vs the weather in other parts of the World
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce simple sentences