WORLD LANGUAGE
Spanish I
High School · 9 – 12 Courses
Spanish I
Overview
Learn basic Spanish grammar to help build your fluency and understanding, and apply what you learn through interactive games, written practice, listening, and speaking exercises.
Major Topics and Concepts
Major Topics and Concepts
66- Recognizing the myths vs. realities of Hispanic culture
- Understanding cognates and borrowed words
- Using cognates to build Spanish vocabulary
- Alphabet, vowel sounds, pronunciation, and comparing the sounds of Spanish to English
- Greetings, introducing yourself and others, courtesies
- Question words: asking and responding to questions
- Numbers 1-100
- Colors
- Using adjectives to describe self, family, and friends
- Adjective agreement
- Gender in nouns and adjectives
- Talking about school, classroom objects, and extracurricular activities
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Telling time and talking about schedules
- Days of the week, months of the year, dates
- Using the verb GUSTAR to express likes and dislikes
- Subject pronouns
- Formal vs. informal
- Using –ar verbs
- Using –er and –ir verbs
- Schools in other countries
- Talking about family members, family traditions and holidays
- Singular vs. plural nouns and adjectives
- Using irregular verbs: TENER, SER, ESTAR
- Possessive adjectives
- Expressing age
- Holidays celebrated in Spanish speaking countries
- Occupations and employment possibilities for the 21st century
- Talking about your home and your community
- Using HAY to express “there is” or “there are.”
- Expressions with infinitives: TENER QUE, IR A
- Culture: Exploring Spain with Anthony, student blogger
- Culture: Exploring Cuba with Marisa, student blogger
- Types of stores, shopping, money
- Buying clothes and using the verb COSTAR
- Numbers 100-1000
- Expressing degrees of preference with GUSTAR and mucho, muchísimo, poco and nada.
- Buying gifts and using the verb DAR
- Personal “a”
- Indirect object pronouns
- Buying groceries and understanding numbers, signs and prices
- Shopping in other countries
- Speaking about food and dining experiences
- Using the verb VER
- Speaking in a restaurant: reading a menu, ordering, listening, asking and responding to questions
- Setting the table
- Direct object pronouns
- Culture: Foods and customs of cultures in the Spanish speaking world
- Meal times
- Geography and food
- Describing weather & seasons
- Activities for different seasons
- Celsius vs. Fahrenheit and temperature conversions
- Using “-go” verbs: TENER, PONER, TRAER, DECIR, SALIR, HACER, VENIR, OIR
- Sports for different seasons, using JUGAR
- Severe weather
- Hanging out with friends
- Using e – ie stem-changing verbs: EMPEZAR, CERRAR, PENSAR, PERDER, QUERER, PREFERIR
- Going to the movies
- Parts of the body
- Transportation
- Talking about pastimes
- Using o – ue stem-changing verbs: ALMORZAR, ENCONTRAR, VOLVER, PODER, DORMIR
- Using e – i stem-changing verbs: SERVIR, PEDIR, REPITIR
- Culture: Exploring Colombia with Sandra, student blogger
- Culture: Exploring Argentina with Juan, student blogger
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