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LISTENING - The students will:
1. Understand everyday conversational and survival topics in standard
speech.
2. Give oral summary in Spanish of main idea and gist.
3. State the sequence of ideas in Spanish.
4. Recognize narration in present, past, and future time.
5. Follow the majority of classroom instructions in the target language.
6. Understand common idioms and phrases.
7. Remember conversational speech and responses of others.
8. Detect mood, attitude, etc., in speech.
9. Recognize variation in cultural expression.
SPEAKING - The students will:
1. Participate in everyday and spontaneous (unpracticed/unmemorized)
conversations.
2. Narrate and describe in present, past, and future time.
3. Express likes, dislikes, opinion, emotions, wishes.
4. Conduct oral inquiries such as surveys to ascertain information.
5. Negotiate with language to problem solve.
6. Summarize and paraphrase learned material.
7. Give simple definitions using the target language.
8. Give instructions.
9. Retell a story.
10. Report on selected topics of cultural and general interest.
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Content and topics will vary and reflect intermediate communicative skills
required to function in social, academic and career-related situations.
1. Involves social situations - courtesy, greetings, making appointments,
arrangements.
2. Everyday topics - food, errands, directions, post office, renting an
apartment, clothing, shopping, automobiles, road emergencies, films,
leisure activities, travel, personal and business communication,
current events.
3. One way communication - instructions, descriptions, narrations,
academic lectures, radio and television broadcasts.
4. Topics that require more involved linguistic applications - current
events, social issues, history, literature and the arts, jobs and
professions, feelings.
CONTENT (Speaking):
1. Content involves everyday social situations (courtesy, greetings,
making appointments, arrangements), everyday topics (health, food, ,
errands, directions, post office, living quarters, clothing, shopping,
automobiles, road emergencies, films, leisure activities, current
events, social issues, history, literature and the arts, jobs and
career, feelings.
TASKS (Listening):
1. Listening for the main idea(s) in taped and live material.
2. Note taking.
3. Following instructions, physical response.
4. Listening to retell a story.
5. Listening with visuals.
6. Listening to detect social situation and mood.
7. Dictations and variations.
TASKS (Speaking):
1. Appropriate question formation.
2. Appropriate responses.
3. Summarizing and paraphrasing.
4. Paired interviews.
5. Clue searching exercises.
6. Cooperative group work to find information, to problem solve, or to
produce a product.
7. Short formal reports.
8. Storytelling.
9. Simple debates.
10. Surveys.
11. Role plays.
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?Como Se Dice?, 5th ed. by Jarvis, Lebredo, and Mena
