High Spanish 4
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Pre Requisites
Spanish 1, 2, and 3
Description
Spanish 4 will certainly expand your language skills. However, it will also take you on a fascinating cultural journey. You’ll experience the language’s rich traditions and superstitions. Through exploring the past, you’ll come to understand the importance of community, family, and personal relationships. You will be immersed in culture—movement, art, music, literature. Meeting real people and hearing their stories will allow you to gain new vocabulary, have better command of the language, and understand your role as a global citizen.
Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course:
SEGMENT 1
Module 1:
- Global Challenges
- Nutrition and Food Safety
- Health Issues
- Public Health Systems
- Environmental Issues
- Human Rights
- How to write a formal communication
- Double verbs
- Conjugation and use of subjunctive with impersonal expressions to make suggestions
- Subjunctive use for expressing volition and fear
- Conjunctions that require subjunctive, conditional, imperfect subjunctive, and si clauses
Module 2:
- Science and Technology
- Discovery and inventions
- Present and past perfect tenses
- Future technologies
- Future perfect and the Future indicative
- Subjunctive mood with actions not yet completed
- New media and social impact for technology
- Irregular subjunctive mood
- Present perfect subjunctive
- How to write a blog post
- Ethical questions and debates about science and technology
Module 3:
- Family and community
- Relationships
- Friendship and love
- Reflexive and reciprocal verbs
- Present tense
- Uses of se
- Latin root words
- Childhood and adolescence
- Embellished adjectives
- Comparisons and superlatives
- Preterit and imperfect
- Family Structure
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns
- Roles and classes in society
- Forming nouns from verbs
- How to write an autobiography
- Customs for beginnings and ends
- Reading and listening comprehension
SEGMENT 2
Module 4:
- Contemporary Life
- Celebrations
- Superstitions and beliefs
- Present and imperfect progressive tense with a variety of verbs
- Forming adverbs
- Latin Root Words
- International travel airport processes and recommendations
- Impersonal se
- Various uses of infinitives
- Leisure and sports
- Accidental se
- Object pronouns
- Post-secondary education
- Imperfect subjunctive
- Conditional perfect
- How to write a narrative
- Global career options
- Past perfect subjunctive
- Reading and listening comprehension
Module 5:
- Beauty and Aesthetics
- Human beauty
- Reflexive verbs in the present and the past
- Architecture
- Latin Root Words
- Time expressions
- Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
- Visual arts, Literature
- Future subjunctive
- Passive voice
- How to write a persuasive essay
- Performing arts
- Reading and listening comprehension
Microphone, speakers or headset, device of choice to record video with audio; Chrome browser suggested
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.***
***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.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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