Elementary Spanish Level 5

Segment One

• Location, countries, and culture of Central America
• Greetings, introductions, and goodbyes
• Verbs conocer and encontrarse
• Using gestures to greet people
• Different places people live
• Solo, sola and juntos
• Airport and airplane phrases and vocabulary
• Differences between English and Spanish sentence structure
• Adjectives and articles agreeing in gender and number
• Asking and answering questions
• Natural landforms
• Por qué and porque
• Vocabulary related to family members
• Using adjectives to describe physical appearance
• Possessive adjectives
• Este and esta
• Important places in San Jose
• Culture of Costa Rica
• Parts of the house
• Accentuation rules
• The preposition de
• Belongings
• Reading, understanding, and writing advertisements
• Places in the community
• Activities around the house
• Nosotros and nosotras
• Conjugating verbs with nosotros and nosotras
• Reading and acting out a drama
• Writing sentences
• Words and expressions related to food and drinks
• Restaurant words and expressions
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• Belongings
• Read a menu and place an order
• Body parts
• Express and talk about feelings and emotions
• Identify past tense expressions
• Aquí and allá
• Read and write an email

Segment Two

• Greetings
• Introductions
• Simple questions
• Words to describe people
• Correct form of the verb gustar
• Words that describe personality traits
• Aspects of my personality
• Vocabulary related to the movies
• Movie ticket prices
• Culture of Costa Rica
• Snacks offered in Costa Rican theaters
• Movie poster and its content
• Familiar words, phrases, expressions, and sentences
• School subjects
• Inverted question and exclamation marks
• School-related vocabulary
• My feelings and other people’s feelings
• Vocabulary related to amusement parks
• Contractions al and del
• Adverbs rápidamente and lentamente
• Common weather terms 
• Different aspects of a news report 
• Read a news report
• Current events in Central America
• Types of natural disasters
• Identify what colonization is
• Recognize who colonized central America and how long they did
• Compare Spain coming to central America and Christopher Columbus coming to the Americas
• Identify where traditions come from
• Superlatives
• Recognize the Guatemalan tradition of la Semana Santa
• False cognates
• Locate Central America on a world map
• Label the countries of Central America
• Animals of the tropical jungle
• Actions taken by good citizens in the home, community, and around the world
• Use Es __ que with adjectives

Students will need the following materials: printer, cell phone or scanner, headphones with a microphone, notebook, pencil, crayons or markers, coloring pencils, glue, tape, scissors, a printer, and colorful food.

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, oral assessments, and discussions. Core courses will use the state-approved grading scale and Special Area courses will use an S or U grading scale.

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.