Dominican International School
76 Tah Chih Street Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C
Tel No: (02) 2533-8451
www.dishs.tp.edu.tw
私立道明外僑學校
台北市 104 大 直 街 76 號
電 話：（02）2533-8451
Foreign language: SPANISH (Level 3)
Syllabus - SY: 2014-2015
GRADE LEVEL: 11
Teacher: Mr. Philipp Beck
E-mail: pbeck@dishs.tp.edu.tw
Course description
The Spanish program is a three-year course (Spanish Level 1, Spanish Level 2,
and Spanish Level 3) designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of
Spanish. The main focus of the course is on language acquisition for everyday situation.
At Spanish Level 3 (grade 11) students will continue to improve their
communication skills for everyday situation: vocabulary will be increased as well as new
scenarios and situations so students can be more specific in what to express.
During this course, students will learn about school activities and rules, discuss
and compare extracurricular activities, describe daily routines, shopping and clothing,
running errands around the town, places to go in a city or town, holiday celebrations…
Students will also enjoy watching videos related to Spanish culture, which will help
them to improve their listening and pronunciation skills, and will provide them selfconfidence to interact in Spanish.
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Teaching strategies and skills to communicate actively:
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Creating a communicative learning community. A communicative classroom is
build up on activities that enable students to use language in meaningful and
purposeful ways.
Students need to express meaning by covering their own messages for a
purpose and to a real audience.
Students need to negotiate meaning through the natural give-and-take involved
in understanding and making oneself understood.
Students will practice in interpreting, expressing, and negotiating meaning
through extensive and frequent peer interactions.
Students need to listen to and read Spanish in order to interpret intended
meanings.
Grading
Grades will be computed following the school policy:
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30% Homework and assignments.
30% Test and quizzes
30% Final Quarter Exam
10% Deportment
For details in grading scale, please check the student handbook.
A Criteria to evaluate in Spanish is also available, please contact the teacher.
Textbook
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Realidades 2, Pearson.
Classroom policies and expectations
1. Follow directions the first time they are given.
2. Be respectful towards the teacher.
3. Be in your seat with a positive attitude when the bell rings and ready to learn.
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4. Come to class prepared.
5. No marking, vandalism, or graffiti of any kind on school property.
6. Treat yourself and others with respect. No obscene, hurtful or harassing
language.
7. No gum chewing, drinking (except water) or eating in the classroom is allowed.
8. No hats, cell phones, sun glasses or electronic games are allowed in class! If
seen they will be confiscated and turned into the administration.
1st Quarter
Tentative weekly schedule
Week
Week 1
8/11 – 8/15
Topic
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Welcome, class rules and grading system
Chapter Para empezar…
 Talk about you and other people
 Tell where you and other people are from
(page 2 to 7)
Week 2
8/18 – 8/22
Week 3
8/25 – 8/29
Chapter Para empezar…
 Talk about things you and other people do
 Talk about how often you do certain things
 Review present tense of regular verbs
(page 8 to 15)
Chapter 1A ¿Qué haces en la escuela? (What do you
do at school?)
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School activities and rules
(page 19 to 25)
Week 4
9/1 – 9/5
Chapter 1A ¿Qué haces en la escuela? (What do you
do at school?)
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Review of stem changing verbs
Affirmative and negative words
Who and what you know at school
(page 26 to 33)
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Week 5
9/8 – 9/12
Chapter 1A ¿Qué haces en la escuela? (What do you
do at school?)
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Review vocabulary and grammar
Reading: Reglas de oro para estudiar mejor
(page 33 to 43)
Week 6
9/15 – 9/19
Chapter 1B ¿Qué haces después de las clases? (What
do you do after class?)
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Extracurricular activities
(page 46 to 51)
Week 7
9/22 – 9/26
Chapter 1B ¿Qué haces después de las clases? (What
do you do after class?)
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Week 8
Make comparisons about leisure time activities, sports
and people
Verb saber and conocer
Hace + time expressions
(page 52 to 64)
Review
9/29 – 10/3
Week 9
10/6 – 10/10
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2nd Quarter
Tentative weekly schedule
Week
Week 10
Oct 13 – Oct 17
Topic
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Stem changing verbs for talking about classroom
activities
Affirmative and negative words
Verb “conocer”
Read and discuss about good study habits
(pages 27 to 32)
Week 11
Oct 20 – Oct 24
Chapter 1B: ¿Qué haces después de las clases?
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Read, listen to and understand information about
extracurricular activities
(pages 46 to 49)
Week 12
Oct 27 – Oct 31
Week 13
Nov 3 – Nov 7
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Talk about your leisure-time activities
Discuss the afterschool activities of your classmates
Write about what you and others do afterschool
(pages 50 to 52)
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Make comparisons about leisure-time activities,
sports and people
(pages 53 to 54)
Week 14
Nov 10 – Nov 14
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Verbs “saber” and “conocer”: listen to and respond to
questions about who and what you know
Talk and write about who and what people know
(pages 56 to 57)
Week 15
Nov 17 – Nov 21
Week 16
Nov 24 – Nov 28
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Talk and write about how long people have been
doing something (hace + time expressions)
Exchange information about how long you have done
certain activities
(pages 58 to 59)
Class project: create a
extracurriculum activities
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Week 17
Dec 1 – Dec 5
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Week 18
Read about a dance school
Culture: compare style of dancing in Spanish
speaking countries with Taiwan
Write about your extracurricular activities
(pages 60 to 65)
Review and movie
Dec 8 – Dec 12
Week 19
Dec 15 – Dec 18
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3rd Quarter
Tentative weekly schedule
Week
Week 20
Jan 5 to Jan 9
Topic
Chapter 2A: How do you get ready?
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Week 21
Jan 12 to Jan 16
Week 22
Jan 19 to Jan 23
Chapter 2A: How do you get ready?
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Week 23
Week 24
Feb 2 to Feb 6
Read, listen to, and understand information
about getting ready for and event and daily
routings
(pages 74 to 77)
Chapter 2A: How do you get ready?
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Jan 26 to Jan 30
Listen to, write about and discuss clothing and
parts of the body
Read, write, and talk about actions (review of
basic verbs)
(pages 70 to 71)
Discuss how much time you need to get ready
for school
Write about getting ready for an event and daily
routines (verbs with reflexive pronouns)
(pages 78 to 81)
Chapter 2A: How do you get ready?
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Talk about what you wear for special events
(pages 82 to 85)
Chapter 2A: How do you get ready?
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Exchange information about where things are
Write about how other people feel in certain
situations
Verb to be: ser and estar
(pages 86 to 89)
Week 25
Feb 9 to Feb 13
Chapter 2A: How do you get ready?
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Read about a theater and its programs
Demonstrate what you wear, how you get ready
and how you feel before a special event
(pages 90 to 93)
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Chinese New Year
Week 26
Feb 23 to fen 27
Chapter 2B: What clothes did you buy?
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Talk and write about shopping
Express how much items cost
(pages 98 to 99)
Week 27
Mar 2 to Mar 6
Week 28
Mar 9 to Mar 13
Chapter 2B: What clothes did you buy?
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Chapter 2B: What clothes did you buy?
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Week 29
Read, listen to and understand information about
shopping and clothing
(pages 102 to 105)
Talk about what you and others did recently
Exchange information about what you wore and
bought
Preterit of regular verbs
(pages 110 to 113)
Accumulative review
Mar 16 to Mar 20
Week 30
Quarter Exam
Mar 23 to Mar 27
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