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Make simple conversation when participating in basic communicative exchanges related to shopping and clothes
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use appropriate words regarding clothing and shopping
Negotiate a price
Produce conversations that lead to purchasing a product
Express preferences while shopping
Identify clothes and describe them
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Talk about yourself and others in the past
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Communicate using the past tense
Describe the meaning of regular and irregular verbs in the past and conjugate them
Identify words and contexts that trigger the past tense
Describe events and actions that took place in the past
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible.
Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)
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Describe daily routines
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Describe your daily routines
Talk about personal hygiene
Share what you like and dislike doing
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Express likes and dislikes using verbs like ‘gustar’
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use verbs like ‘gustar’ to express preferences
Form negative sentences
Use pronouns with verbs like ‘gustar’ appropriately
Express different levels of interest and appreciation by using different verbs like ‘gustar’
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Talk about food
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use food vocabulary of different categories in context
Talk about food and describe it
Be able to order at a restaurant
Compare how food is different depending on the region.
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Compare people, objects and cultures
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Compare people, objects and cultures
Use superlatives to express that something is the best
Introduce absolute superlatives when communicating with someone else
Use irregular comparative forms of inequality and know their meanings
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Describe actions you do regularly
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Introduce reflexive verbs to conversations
Match pronouns to reflexive verbs
Contrast the difference between reflexive and non-reflexive verbs
Explain what your daily chores consist of
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Talking about special events and celebrations
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Talk about celebrations and special events
Describe personal relationships
Introduce terms for parties and celebrations and what activities you do at parties
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Asking questions
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use questions word to know about events and celebrations
Talk and ask others about these activities
Distinguish between ‘qué’, ‘cuál’ and ‘cuáles’
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Discuss health and well being
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Talk about health
Discuss medical conditions and symptoms
Introduce names of parts of the body, health professions and health-related terms
Talk as if you were at a clinic
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Describe events and repeated actions in the past
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use the imperfect tense to describe the past
Use the imperfect tense to describe repeated actions in the past
Communicate with other people using the imperfect tense and the preterit tense
Identify what contexts and adverbs trigger the imperfect tense or the preterit tense
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
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Give details using adverbs
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
Oral and/or written proficiency test
Criteria
Use adverbs to provide contexts to what you say
Introduce ‘-mente’ adverbs and know what they mean
Use adverbial expression to increase fluency
Use correct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to produce short sentences in Spanish
Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible