World Languages Department

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Spanish I is a course where students will be introduced to the Spanish Language. Students in Spanish I will develop the competencies delineated in the Standards of Foreign Language Learning as set by the state of Utah and the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. Students will explore the vocabulary and grammar used to communicate in a school setting, have a conversation with friends, have a conversation about food, school, friends, family and activities. Students should be able to ask for and give directions. Students will learn the present tense of regular and irregular verbs.

Indicators of Student Learning

Upon the completion of the course, students will:

Cultural Knowledge

• Gain information about cultural festivals, products, foods, and places around the Spanish-speaking world through the Cultural Sections of their text.

Oral Communication

• Engage in conversation about chapter topics.

• Present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners on a variety of topics using visual aids such as power point presentations.

• Comprehend the situational scenarios in each chapter and be able to respond to them.

• Understand and interpret the spoken language by using listening skills through the audio and video program companion to their textbook.

• Work in groups, with partners, or individually to create scenes from each chapter in which the students will use the vocabulary to show their mastery of it.

• Share ideas and information in discussions.

Written Communication

• Use parts of speech correctly to write daily paragraphs.

• Synthesize information to answer questions, respond to questions, complete text book activities, and communicate ideas.

• Translate from Spanish to English and English to Spanish

• Students will learn vocabulary and grammar.

• Connect prior learning to scaffold better writing skills.

Listening Comprehension

• Use auditory clues such as intonation to infer meaning of words.

• Use contextual clues to infer meaning of words.

• Students will listen to the audio program companion to their text and answer correctly comprehension questions about what they hear.

• They will write down answers to questions after hearing a situation take place.

• Students will be able to engage in conversation by interpreting what others are saying.

Reading Skills

• Read Spanish in a way that meaning is communicated.

• Read Spanish and comprehend that which was read.

• Gain comprehensible input through practice activities, culture notes, and text reading selections.

Technological and media Skills

• Students will learn to access the Publisher Website for extra resources

• Students will use Power Point to aid during oral presentations.

• Students will be exposed to media in the target language in the form of cultural and other videos and their comprehension packets.

Assessment

Upon the successful completion of the course, students will:

• Interpret and engage in conversations in group, partner and classroom settings.

• Read and comprehend what is read

• Learn and expand on vocabulary and grammar

• Develop and improve on their writing skills

• Learn the present tense of regular and irregular verbs.

• Translate Spanish to English and English to Spanish

• Engage in impromptu conversations

• Use Power Point as visual aid during oral presentation