Binghamton High School
LOTE II
Teacher: BCSD Special Services
September/ October
Essential Questions
Unit # 1- Personal
Identification
Essential question:
Who am I and how do
others see me?
Concepts
Skills and Standard
Health and Social Education Standards:
(AOI)
Communication: 1.1, 1.3
Understanding goals:
Communities: 5.1
Personal Identification
Content
Assessment
-Review
stating
age, Pre-assessment:
feelings, birthday, origin
and nationality
5 listening comprehension
-Review basic feelings
- Descriptive adjectives
15 multiple choice ( 10
vocabulary & grammar, 5
reading comprehension)
Introducing and describing
oneself.
1 composition (50 words)
Students will engage in - The verb(s) “to be”
conversations
provide
Basic grammar including
information,
express -The verb “to have”
correct verb usage and
feelings and emotions.
conjugation, gender and
- Present tense of regular
number agreement, question Students
will
present verbs to discuss hobbies
formation.
information, concepts, and and activities.
ideas to an audience of
listeners or readers on a
topic.
Students use the language
both within and beyond the
school setting
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November
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Unit # 2- Family
Concepts
Community and Service
(AOI)
Skills and Standard
Standards:
Content
-Family and extended
family vocabulary
Assessment
- Review adjectives
-Composition
-Simple professions
-Dialogues
- Possessive adjectives
-Quizzes/ tests
- The verb “to have”
-Recordings, filming,
online resourcing, videos,
guided online activities
- Family tree
Communication: 1.1, 1.2 1.3
Essential question:
What role does each
family member play?
Understanding goals:
Cultures: 2.1, 2.2
Family roles/ relationships
and responsibilities
Describing family members
Basic grammar including
gender and number
agreement, correct verb
usage and conjugation,
possession and idioms
Connections: 3.1
Comparisons: 4.1
Communities: 5.1
-Idioms using the verb “to
in have”
Students will engage
conversations
provide
information, express feelings
and emotions.
Students demonstrate an
understanding of the
relationship between the
practices and perspectives of
the culture studied
Students acquire information
and recognize the distinctive
viewpoints that are only
available through the foreign
language and its cultures
Students demonstrate
understanding of culture
through comparisons of the
cultures studied and their own.
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December
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Unit # 3- House and
Home
Concepts
Environment & Community
and Service (AOI)
Skills and Standard
Communication: 1.1, 1.2
Cultures: 2.2
Content
-House vocabulary (
structures, rooms and
objects)
Assessment
-Role play between a buyer
and real estate agent and/or
prospective renter
Comparisons: 4.2
- Different dwellings
-Advertisement to sell or
buy a home
Understanding goals:
Essential question:
What makes a house a
home? And how do I
contribute to that?
House and home
responsibilities
Describing different types of
homes and household
responsibilities.
Basic grammar including
correct verb usage,
prepositions, verbs of
obligation/need, verbs of
location.
Students
engage
in - Chores (present tense
conversations, provide and verbs)
obtain information, express
feelings and emotions, and - The verb “to be located”
exchange opinions
-Prepositions
-Create an advertisement
for furnishing sale.
-Floor plan of a house or
apartment
Students present information,
concepts, and ideas to an - Idiom “to have to” or “to
audience of listeners or readers
need”
on a variety of topics.
Students
demonstrate
understanding
of
relationship
between
products and perspectives
the culture studied
an
the
the
of
- the verb “to do”
Students
demonstrate
understanding of the concept of
culture through comparisons of
the cultures studied and their
own.
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January/ February
Essential Questions
Unit # 4- Daily Routine
Concepts
Health and Social Education
(AOI)
Skills and Standard
Communication: 1.1, 1.2 1.3
Content
- Body/ hygiene
vocabulary
-Dialogues
Connections: 3.1
Understanding Goals:
What does a typical day
look like for me?
Comparisons: 4.2
Hygiene and personal care
(parts of the body)
Describing ones daily
routine (including time)
Intermediate grammar
including reflexive verbs,
irregular verbs, telling time,
Communities: 5.1, 5.2
Students engage in
conversations, provide and
obtain information, express
feelings and emotions, and
exchange opinions
Assessment
-Daily observations
-Bathroom and toiletry
vocabulary
-Journals
-Irregular verbs (including
stem-changing)
-Vocabulary Quizzes
-Reflexive verbs
-Tests
-Telling time/ adverbs of
frequency
Students present information,
concepts, and ideas to an
audience of listeners or readers
on a variety of topics.
Students reinforce and further
their knowledge of other
disciplines through the foreign
language
Students demonstrate
understanding of the concept of
culture through comparisons of
the cultures studied and their
own.
Students use the language both
within and beyond the school
setting
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Concepts
Binghamton High School
Skills and Standard
Content
Assessment
Students show evidence of
becoming life-long learners by
using the language for personal
enjoyment and enrichment.
March
Essential Questions
Unit # 5- Shopping
Concepts
Community and Service
(AOI)
Skills and Standard
Communication: 1.1, 1.2 1.3
Content
- Review clothing
vocabulary
-Dialogues
Cultures: 2.2
What is it like to be a
consumer in my
community?
Understanding Goal:
Connections: 3.1
Assessment
- Daily observations
-Shopping vocabulary/
verbs
-Journals
Shopping
Comparisons: 4.1
Intermediate grammar
including the past tense of
Communities: 5.1, 5.2
regular verbs, adjectives and
Students engage in
conversations, provide and
obtain information, express
feelings and emotions, and
exchange opinions
- Review adjectives related
to color, size, shape
-Vocabulary Quizzes
-Tests
-Money/payment
vocabulary
-The verb “to go”
-Past tense of verbs
Students present information,
concepts, and ideas to an
audience of listeners or readers
on a variety of topics.
Students reinforce and further
their knowledge of other
disciplines through the foreign
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Concepts
Binghamton High School
Skills and Standard
Content
Assessment
language
Students show evidence of
becoming life-long learners by
using the language for personal
enjoyment and enrichment
April
Essential Questions
Unit # 6- Food and
Drink
Concepts
Health and Social Education
(AOI)
Skills and Standard
Communication: 1.1
Content
- Food/ drink vocabulary
Cultures: 2.1
-Restaurant/ meal taking
terms
Food and Drink
Connections: 3.1
How do eating habits vary Nutrition/ meal taking
from culture to culture?
Restaurant etiquette
Comparisons: 4.1
Communities: 5.1, 5.2
Intermediate grammar &
vocabulary including past
tense of verbs,
food/drink/nutrition
vocabulary.
- Past tense of verbs
(continuation)
- Cultural differences in
food and meals
Assessment
-Daily observations
-Dialogues
-Journals
-Vocabulary quizzes
-Tests
-Creating menus
-Creating a food pyramid
Students engage in
conversations, provide and
obtain information, express
feelings and emotions, and
exchange opinions
Students present information,
concepts, and ideas to an
audience of listeners or readers
on a variety of topics.
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Concepts
Binghamton High School
Skills and Standard
Content
Assessment
Students demonstrate an
understanding of the
relationship between the
practices and perspectives of
the culture studied
Students reinforce and further
their knowledge of other
disciplines through the foreign
language
Students demonstrate
understanding of the nature of
language through comparisons
of the language studied and
their own.
May
Essential Questions
Unit # 7- Review & postassessments
Concepts
Approaches to learning
(AOI)
How do I put my new
language skills to use?
Review of unit vocabulary
and grammar concepts
Skills and Standard
Communication: 1.1, 1.2
Content
Assessment
- Practice dialogues
Cultures: 2.1, 2.2
-Practice essays
Connections: 3.1, 3.2
-Reading comprehension
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Concepts
Skills and Standard
Comparisons: 4.1, 4.2
Binghamton High School
Content
Assessment
Communities: 5.1, 5.2
Students engage in
conversations, provide and
obtain information, express
feelings and emotions, and
exchange opinions
Students understand and
interpret written and spoken
language on a variety of topics
Students present information,
concepts, and ideas to an
audience of listeners or readers
on a variety of topics.
Students demonstrate an
understanding of the
relationship between the
practices and perspectives of
the culture studied
Students demonstrate an
understanding of the
relationship between the
products and perspectives of the
culture studied
Students reinforce and further
their knowledge of other
disciplines through the foreign
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Concepts
Skills and Standard
Binghamton High School
Content
Assessment
language
Students acquire information
and recognize the distinctive
viewpoints that are only
available through the foreign
language and its cultures
Students use the language both
within and beyond the school
setting
Students show evidence of
becoming life-long learners by
using the language for personal
enjoyment and enrichment
June
Essential Questions
Post-assessments
Concepts
Skills and Standard
Content
Assessment
Post-assessment:
10 listening comprehension
passages and questions
30 MC questions ( 25
grammar and vocabulary, 5
reading passages/questions)
1 composition (choice
between past tense and
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Concepts
Skills and Standard
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Content
Assessment
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