High Spanish 1

Segment 1

• Module 1:
  • My life and me
  • Greetings
  • Basic geography
  • Importance of speaking Spanish
  • Where is Spanish spoken?
  • Introductions
  • Tú vs. Usted
  • Alphabet
  • Numbers 0–30
  • Age
  • Written presentation about self
  • Days of the week
  • Months
  • Personality traits
  • Who am I in a global world?
  • Cognates
  • Ser: yo
  • Tener: tengo, tienes
  • Question words: ¿Cómo?, ¿Cuántos? ¿Cuándo?
  • Oral presentation describing self
  • Reading and listening comprehension

• Module 2:
  • Describing likes and dislikes with gustar
  • School schedules
  • School systems in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Describing classes and teachers
  • Stating opinions
  • Asking questions
  • Identifying and locating classroom items
  • Telling time
  • 24-hour clock
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Written presentation of a blog
  • Numbers 31–60
  • Ir: voy, vas, va  
  • Subject pronouns: él, ella, usted
  • Definite and indefinite articles
  • Noun-adjective agreement
  • Reading and listening comprehension
  • Oral presentation describing likes and dislikes

• Module 3:
  • My preferences and me
  • Food and beverages
  • Describing a meal
  • Describing how often you eat a meal
  • How to order and pay in a restaurant
  • Mealtime practices in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs
  • Tener expressions
  • Written presentation of a survey
  • Prefiero, quiero, almuerzo
  • Numbers 0–1000
  • Describing rooms of a house
  • Household chores
  • Shopping
  • Preparing for a party
  • Metric system
  • Money
  • Reading and listening comprehension
  • Oral presentation describing preferences

• Module 4:
  • My house and me
  • Houses in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Characteristics of a home
  • Tener: tengo, tienes,
  • Estar: estoy, estás, está
  • Estar with feelings
  • Ser: soy, eres, es
  • Ir a vs. Ir al
  • Written presentation about the house
  • Household furniture vocabulary
  • Chores vocabulary
  • Numbers 0–1,000,000
  • Irregular yo verbs; pongo, salgo, hago, tengo
  • Creating a budget
  • Reading and listening comprehension
  • Oral presentation describing chores and how to prepare home for party

Segment 2

• Module 5:
  • My family and me
  • Immediate and extended families
  • Occupations
  • Family traditions in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Plural subject pronouns
  • Tener and ser irregular forms
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Written presentation about family
  • Contraction del
  • Prepositions
  • Nationalities
  • Oral presentation describing family member
  • Reading and listening comprehension

• Module 6:
  • My free time and me
  • Jugar
  • Issuing and accepting an invitation
  • Dating customs in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Music from Spanish-speaking countries
  • Sports from Spanish-speaking countries
  • Sports and pastimes
  • Written presentation of a narration of my life
  • Weather expressions
  • Types of clothing
  • Conmigo, contigo
  • eàie, eài stem-changing of the verbs entender, cerrar, servir, pedir
  • Reviewing time expressions
  • Reviewing tener expressions
  • Celsius vs. Fahrenheit
  • Oral presentation about activities done in different seasons  
  • Reading and listening comprehension

• Module 7:
  • My city and me
  • Forms of transportation
  • City vs. country
  • Weather review
  • Review of prepositions
  • Review of estar and hay
  • Review porque vs. por que
  • Review estar with feelings and location
  • Prepositions al and del
  • Written presentation about traveling and an itinerary
  • Transportation in Spanish-speaking countries
  • City vs. country life in Spanish-speaking countries
  • Introduction of saber vs. conocer
  • Describing near future with ir + a + infinitive
  • Oral presentation about traveling 
  • Reading and listening comprehension

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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, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.*** 

Additional course requirements may exist based on specific expectations for individual courses. More information can be found in FLVS policy documents, published at www.flvs.net, or by referring to the course instructor after registration.

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.