Susan Jones

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09.10.10

Great places to visit and sites to practice your Spanish.

Spanish Flash Cards: www.spanishspanish.com/

Vocab. Games/Self Tests: www.e-spanyol.hu/en/

Picture Dictionary: www.pdictionary.com/spanish

Vocab. Games: www.espanol-extra.co.uk/

Verb Practice: www.conjuguemos.com/

Spanish Grammar: www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm

Grammar Exercises:

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/contact.html

Newspapers in Spanish: www.guglealo.com/

Grammar Guides: www.studyleaf.com/subjects/language/spanish/

Learning Strategy: www.nclrc.org/sailing/sgIndex.html

Best Dictionary: www.wordreference.com

Maps: www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html

Grammar Power Point: http://campus.northpark.edu/spanish/pp/slideshows.htm

Great Spanish Resources: Jim Becker www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html

HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL I

This course is an introduction to the study of the target language and its

culture. Students perform the most basic functions of the language and

become familiar with some elements of its culture. The emphasis is placed on

the development of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing

within a given context extending outside of the classroom setting when

possible. The context focuses on the students' lives and experiences and

includes an exposure to everyday customs and lifestyles. Grammar is

integrated throughout the course and is selected according to the language

conventions (functions).

A general introduction to the culture, its products (e.g., literature, laws, foods,

games,) perspectives (e.g., attitudes, values, beliefs,) and practices (patterns

of social interaction) is integrated throughout the course. Students acquire

some insight into how languages and cultures work by comparing the target

language and culture(s) to their own.

Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course

HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL II

Students enrolled in this course have either successfully completed the level I course

at the high school or the middle school or have placed out of level I due to previous

language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.

This course provides students with opportunities to continue the development of

their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students participate in simple

conversational situations by combining and recombining learned elements of the

language orally and in writing. They are able to satisfy basic survival needs and

interact on issues of everyday life in the present time and past time inside and

outside of the classroom setting. They compose related sentences, which narrate,

describe, compare, summarize familiar topics from the target culture. Focus is

placed on understanding main ideas.

They develop a better understanding of the similarities and differences between

cultures and languages and they examine the influence of the beliefs and values

on the target culture(s).

Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.

HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL III

Students enrolled in this course have either successfully completed high school

levels I and II courses or have placed out of levels I and II due to previous

language study at the elementary and/or middle grades.

This course provides students with additional opportunities to expand their

listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they create with the language

and as they access short literary texts, authentic materials, and media on

generally familiar topics. Students satisfy limited communication and social

interaction demands as well as initiate and maintain face-to-face

communication. They identify main idea(s) and significant details in

discussions, presentations, and written texts within a cultural context, read and

interpret authentic materials, narrate and describe in sentences, groups of

related sentences, and short cohesive passages in present, past, and future

time and compose messages, announcements, personal notes, and

advertisements.

They continue to refine their knowledge and understanding of the target

language and culture(s) and their own by examining the interrelationship of

other cultures to their own, by demonstrating behaviors appropriate in target

cultures, and by applying their knowledge and skills inside and outside of the

classroom setting. Integration of other disciplines is on-going throughout the course.