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TITLE
Spanish 2
TEXTBOOK
Abordo, Student Text, Schmitt & Woodford, Glencoe, 1995, ISBN 0-02-646072-6
Abordo, Student Workbook, Schmitt & Woodford, Glencoe, 1995, ISBN 0-02-646120-X
VIDEO RESOURCES:
La Tierra Antes de Tiempo
El Cuento Americano
DESCRIPTION
This course introduces more sophisticated grammatical and syntactic structures
while developing and expanding upon the ones acquired in the first-year course.
Emphasis is placed upon the development of original, creative language use.
Instruction is given bilingually, and students are required to use the language
orally in formal contexts.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
The following goals of the Nebraska Foreign Language Frameworks document are the
basis of our course objectives.
1. Students will learn to communicate in Spanish.
Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information,
express feelings and emotions.
Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret written and spoken Spanish.
Standard 1.3 Students convey information in Spanish.
2. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of other cultures.
Standard 2.1 Students will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship
between the practices of their culture and those of some Hispanic cultures.
Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the perspective of the
cultures studied.
3. Students will connect with other disciplines and acquire information.
Standard 3.1 Students reinforce and further knowledge of other disciplines
through foreign languages.
Standard 3.2 Students acquire information and perspectives through authentic
materials in Spanish.
4. Students will develop insight into the nature of language and culture.
Standard 4.1 Students recognize that different languages use different pattern
to communicate and can apply this knowledge to their own language.
Standard 4.2 Students recognize that cultures use different patterns of
interaction and can apply this knowledge to their own culture.
In order to facilitate student acomplishment of these goals, students at the
Spanish 2 level will demonstrate intermediate-low proficiency with the following
linguistic and communication skills
Linguistic Concepts covered:
1. The verbs conocer and saber
2. The constructions: el + adjective, el + de, el + que
3. Reflexive verbs: forms and uses
4. The present progressive
5. Indefinite adjectives
6. The verb acabar de + the infinitive
7. The preterite tense (regular verbs)
8. The imperfect tense (regular form and uses)
9. The preterite tense (irregular forms)
10. The imperfect tense (irregular forms)
11. Imperfect vs. preterite
12. Passive voice constructions
13. Compound tenses: form and use
14. Future tense
15. Por vs. para
16. The conditional tense
17. The imperative
Communication goals:
1. Describing one's activities at home and school
2. Describing people, interests, professions, etc.
3. Engaging in conversation with others
4. Asking for directions
5. Expressing feelings about something
6. Describing daily activities
7. Expressing reciprocity
8. Saying how long an action has been occurring
9. Talking about something that happened recently
10. Reporting past events (telling stories)
11. Indicating that two actions are occurring simultaneously
12. Saying how long ago something took place
13. Describing the manner in which something is done
14. Describing habitual past actions
15. Describing what was going on when another action occurred
16. Describing circumstances of a certain event
17. Showing indifference
18. Describing plans for the future
19. Expressing duration, manner, movement, and cause
20. Describing how one would act in a certain situation
21. Making polite requests
22. Expressing action that will have happened
23. Telling a friend what to do and what not to do
24. Giving directions
25. Telling others what to do and what not to do
WRITING ACTIVITIES
1. Letter writing to peers.
2. Write and act out a commercial (in Spanish)
or
3. Write a children’s story (in Spanish)
4. Write their own verb reference text
5. Write a series of direct application translations
MULTICULTURE ACTIVITIES
The student will make a study of and report about.
1. Mayan
2. Educational System Differences between the U.S. and Mexico
3. Dia de la Raza and other historical perspectives
4. Bullfighting
5. Shopping in different kinds of markets
