SPANISH IV
Overview -
In this course you will develop a strong command of the Spanish language, with proficiency in integrating language skills and synthesizing written and aural materials, the formal writing process, extensive interpersonal and presentational speaking and writing practice, and aural comprehension skills through quality, authentic, and level-appropriate audio and video recordings. You will be exposed to literature, historical and current events of Spanish-speaking countries through authentic newspapers and magazines, music, movie, radio and television productions, literary texts, and virtual visits online.
MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS -
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Grade Level
Grade 9, 10, 11, 12
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Duration
Annual
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Prerequisites
Spanish I, II & III
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Mode
Online
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Ratio
1 Teacher : 9 Student (Standard)
1 Teacher : 15 Student (max)
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Exams & Assessments
Online via Learning Management System
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Academic Year
9.6 Months ≈ 10 Months
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Commencement of Academic Year
January
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End of Academic Year
November
Requirements
Microphone, speakers or headset, device of choice to record video with audio; Chrome browser suggested.