Nevada Union High School

Course Description

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	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