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Spanish 1A
Ellsworth High School World Languages Department
Bienvenidos a la clase de espanol! Welcome to Spanish Class!
Widen Your World! Learning Spanish will help you to communicate with and understand the culture of Hispanic people. You will be introduced to the language skill levels of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish, and you'll learn more about how your own language works, too! You will explore the history and culture of Hispanic countries by doing a project during the trimester. You'll keep a Spanish notebook and have daily homework and conversation practice.
1. Course Description:
Through the use of oral and written exercises, conversation, games, skits, audio-visual materials, and computers students will learn beginning-level Spanish as well as learning about Hispanic culture. Students will master present tenses of regular and irregular verbs, the future tense, interrogatives, and a basic conversational vocabulary. The course text will be ¡Exprésate! Level 1 (published by Holt Rinehart Winston). This course meets the first trimester of college entrance language requirement.
2.Instructional Strategies:
You will attain proficiency appropriate to the level of Spanish 1A in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and critical thinking through meaningful activities which will be based upon the contemporary Spanish-speaking world and the various cultures that world includes.
3. Course Outline
Ch. 1 - ¡Empecemos! pp. 4-37 |
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VOCABULARY |
GRAMMAR |
CULTURE |
COUNTRY |
FUNCTIONS |
· Greetings and Goodbyes · Numbers 0-31 · Telling Time · Days of the Week · Months of the Year · Alphabet |
· Subjects and Verbs in sentences · Subject Pronouns · The verb SER · Punctuation Marks and Written Accents |
· Diminutives and Nicknames · Familiar and Polite forms of address |
España - Spain ·La geografia (Geography)
·Las celebraciones (Celebrations)
·La comida (Food)
·La arquitectura (Architecture)
·El arte (Art) |
· ask someone's name and how someone is · say hello and good-bye · introduce someone · say where you and others are from · give phone numbers, the time, the date, and the day · spell words using the Spanish alphabet and give e-mail addresses |
Ch. 2 - A conocernos, pp. 42-75 |
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· Describing friends · Numbers 32-100 · Likes and Dislikes |
· Adjectives · Negation · Gender and Adjective Agreement · Question Formation · Nouns and Definite Articles · The verb GUSTAR · The prepostion DE · ¿Porqué? and porque |
· Ways to describe people · Legal driving and voting age · Comparing yourself and your best friend · Customer service in
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Puerto Rico
·La geografia (Geography)
·Las celebraciones (Celebrations)
·La comida (Food)
·La arquitectura (Architecture)
·El arte (Art) |
· describe people · ask someone's age and birthday · talk about what you and others like · describe things |
Ch. 3 - ¿Qué te gusta hacer? pp. 80-113 |
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· Sports and Leisure Activities |
· GUSTAR with infinitives · Pronouns after prepositions · Present tense of QUERER with infinitives · Present tense of regular -AR verbs · The verb JUGAR · The verb IR · Weather Expressions |
· Participating in team sports in Latin America · Introducing your friends to your parents · Comparing what you and your friends like to do on the weekends · Going out with friends |
Texas
·La geografia (Geography)
·Las celebraciones (Celebrations)
·La comida (Food)
·La arquitectura (Architecture)
·El arte (Art) |
· talk about what you and others like to do · talk about what you want to do · talk about everyday activities · say how often you do things · say where you go |
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