Course Overview:
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.
Prerequisites:
Required Materials:
Student-Supplied Resources:
Students need to supply the following materials to complete the coursework.
- Microphone Sound card
- Speakers or headphones
- Microphone
- Device of choice to record video with audio
Optional:
- Notebook
- Pen, pencil, color pencils
School-Supplied Resources:
Free Downloads:
- Adobe Flash Player
- Java
- Windows Media Player
- Apple iTunes
A special note about the Speech Recording Tool:
In order for the Speech Recording Tool to function, the course should be opened on a non-mobile device using Google Chrome or Firefox. If you do not have the ability to access the course following these requirements, you may use the alternative options provided in the Speech Tools Tab on the Menu Bar.
Syllabus:
Segment 1
Topics Covered:
Módulo 1: Desafíos mundiales
- 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
Módulo 2: Ciencias y tecnología
- 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
Módulo 3: La familia y la comunidad
- 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
Lessons:
Módulo 01: Desafíos mundiales
- 01.00 En el mundo todos somos vecinos
- 01.01 Es esencial que seas saludable
- 01.03 Apoyan a fin de que ayuden
- 01.04 ¿Qué diría la Madre Tierra?
- 01.05 ¡Escribamos una comunicación formal!
- 01.06 ¡A Conversar!
- 01.07 ¿Qué harías si no tuvieras derechos?
- 01.08 Evaluación Escrita
Módulo 02: Ciencias y tecnología
- 02.00 La ciencia de hoy es la tecnología de mañana
- 02.01 ¿Ya lo habías pensado?
- 02.02 ¿Cómo habrá cambiado el mundo?
- 02.03 ¡Espero que me des un 'like'!
- 02.04 Mándame una foto por internet
- 02.05 ¡Escribamos un blog!
- 02.06 ¡Conversemos!
- 02.07 ¡Debatamos!
- 02.08 Evaluación Escrita
Módulo 03: La familia y la comunidad
- 03.00 Amar no es solo querer, es comprender
- 03.01 La amistad y el amor
- 03.02 Las etapas de la vida: niñez y adolescencia
- 03.03 La estructura de la familia
- 03.04 Clases y papeles en la sociedad
- 03.05 ¡Escribamos una autobiografía!
- 03.06 ¡Conversemos!
- 03.07 Costumbres de los principios y finales
- 03.08 Evaluación Escrita
Segment 2
Topics:
Módulo 4: La vida contemporánea
- 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
Módulo 5: La belleza y la estética
- 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
Lessons:
Módulo 04: La vida contemporánea
- 04.00 Felicidad no es hacer lo que quieres sino querer lo que haces
- 04.01 Celebraciones y creencias
- 04.02 Viajar por el mundo
- 04.03 Los pasatiempos del mundo
- 04.04 La educación superior
- 04.05 ¡Escribamos una narración!
- 04.06 ¡Conversemos!
- 04.07 Las profesiones que hubieran tenido
- 04.08 Evaluación Escrita
Módulo 05: La belleza y la estética
- 05.00 La belleza no mira, sólo es mirada
- 05.01 Los ideales de belleza
- 05.02 La arquitectura es la belleza de la sociedad
- 05.03 El arte es belleza
- 05.04 La belleza de la palabra
- 05.05 ¡Escribamos un ensayo persuasivo!
- 05.06 ¡Conversemos!
- 05.07 La belleza en el escenario
- 05.08 Evaluación Escrita
