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Spanish 1

Students begin work on the four skills required for learning a foreign language: listening, speaking,
reading and writing. They will understand and produce the language, develop the four skills to meet survival
needs in the classroom, react in a limited fashion in social situations, understand and answer in one
sentence in oral and written form, and respond with some spontaneity to an oral question or situation. The
content commonly includes: greetings, descriptions, sports, school, hobbies, time, weather, feelings and
family relations. The Spanish culture is also taught. This course requires much memorization and daily
preparation.
 
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs)
 
SEMESTER 1
Content Covered and Essential ELOs
Previews some topics covered throughout the year:
I am becoming comfortable with the sounds of Spanish and can recognize and use some basic Spanish words and structures 

*not an official course ELO
 
 
 
ELO 1 (Senderos 1, L1): I can greet others, introduce myself and say goodbye 
 
ELO 2 (Senderos 1, L1): I can identify and describe people and things, and tell where someone is from
 
ELO 3 (Senderos 1, L1): I can use numbers
ELO 4 (Senderos 1, L2): 
I can talk about school 
 
ELO 5 (Senderos 1, L2):
I can talk about daily activities and preferences
 
ELO 6 (Senderos 1, L2):
I can tell where things are located
 
 
Grammatical and Lexical Structures Covered Introduce:
  • Greetings
  • Alphabet
  • Spanish-speaking countries
  • Talking about where you´re from
  • Classroom vocab
  • School subjects
  • Numbers
  • Days of the week
  • Alphabet
  • greetings/farewells/courtesy
  • adjectives to describe people/things
  • gender and number of nouns and noun/adjective agreement
  • definite and indefinite articles
  • numbers 0-30 
  • The verb “ser”
  • telling time
  • school vocabulary
  • date and days of the week
  • present tense regular -ar verbs 
  • forming questions
  • The verb “estar” 
  • prepositions of location
  • numbers 31 and higher
 
 
 
 
SEMESTER 2
ELO 7 I can talk about family
 
 
 
 
 
ELO 8  I can discuss pastimes, sports and places in the city
 
 
 
 
ELO 9: I can discuss travel and vacation
 
ELO 10: I can describe how people feel
 
ELO 11: I can talk about clothing and shopping
 
ELO 12:  I can exchange information about activities that took place in the past
  • family vocabulary
  • descriptive adjectives
  • possessive adjectives
  • The verb “tener”
    The verb “venir”
  • present tense regular -er and -ir verbs
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  • vocabulary to discuss pastimes
  • present tense of the verb “ir”
  • present tense stem-changing verbs
  • verbs with irregular “yo” forms
 
 
 
 
  • vacation and travel vocabulary
  • “estar” with conditions and emotions
  • present progressive
  • “ser” vs. “estar”
  • direct object pronouns 
  • months of the year
    seasons and weather
  • ordinal numbers
  • clothing and shopping vocabulary
  • saber and conocer
  • indirect object pronouns
  • demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
  • preterite tense of regular verbs
 
 
 
Course Syllabus

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Grade Levels: 9-12

2 Semesters - No repetition for Credit

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Prerequisites

None