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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 2
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
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
