LOTE–Binghamton City School District 6th grade Foreign Language Curriculum
Map
Week Essential
Concepts/Skills/Standards
Content
Assessments
Questions
-Letters of the
-Speaking and
Week How is the
Alphabet
French/Spanish/Chinese
alphabet
listening
-Recognize
letters
in
TL
1
alphabet similar
to/different from ours?
-Recite alphabet
-Spell basic words (such as name)
Week What is the significance Personal Identification
of someone’s name?
-Be able to give his/her name and
2
Who am I?
ask others
-Be able to say what other people’s
names are (identify others by
name)
-Phrases for being
able to ask and give
names.
-He, She, You, I
Week What is allowed in my
personal bubble?
3
Greetings/Farewells/Feeling -Farewells and
Week How are the elderly
treated around the
4
Age
Week What are the different
types (units) of money
5
Numbers
How does the size of
one’s personal bubble
Change according to
what part of the world
he/she is from?
world? Where are they
treated with high regard
and where are they not?
Why?
used in the world? How
are other nations
dependent on one
another?
-Be able to greet/say farewell to a
classmate/friend and respond to the
greeting or farewell.
-Introduce someone else
-Ask someone how they are feeling
and respond to this question
-Be able to tell/ask a classmate
his/her age
-Recite and recognize #’s 1-15
-Recognize and recite #’s 16-50
-Be able to do simple math using
these numbers
-Be able to say prices
(EURO)/quantities
greetings
-Build upon
vocabulary from
naming unit
-How are you?
-I’m fine/doing
badly.
-#’s 1-15
-Age questions and
responses
-(on an informal
basis-do daily date
and birthdays to
expose them to
usage of numbers)
-to have
-#’s 16-50
-plus + minus
activities
-Quizzes
-GroupsSpelling their
names for their
partners.
-Whiteboards
-Presentation
of alphabet
project.
-Speaking
(oral)quiz
-Role play
-Group work
-Chain drill
-Introduce
someone in TL
to the class.
-Role play
-Group work
-Making
dialogues
-Vocabulary
quiz
-Group work
-Reading
comp. activities
-Inner/Outer
circle
-Quiz
-Daily
Speaking
activity – say
one’s age to the
class and say
the age of
someone else
for the class.
-Games
-Flashcards
-dot-to-dot
-Quiz
-Simple math
problems.
-worksheets
Week How is what we eat
dependant on where we
6
Food
Week How do we define what
is considered
7
Description
Week What role does family
have in your life? What
8
Family
Week Do animals speak the
same language all
9
Animals
Week FINAL EXAM –
During this week,
10
oral assessments with the teacher.
They will be answering questions
in the TL based on topics from
above. While each student is being
tested individually, the rest of the
class will be writing a biography
about themselves in the TL
incorporating the topics throughout
the course.
live in the world?
How do environments
play a role in what we
eat?
“beautiful” and
“normal”?
are the different
definitions of what is
considered “family”?
around the world?
students will be taking
individual, one-on-one,
(continued in next
column)
-Recognize and identify common
foods and beverages
-Express like and dislike
-Say I eat + I drink
-Be able to describe people +
objects
-Identify and pronounce the colors
-Be able to recite family members
-Be able to describe family
members using above vocabulary
units
-Be able to identify common
animals and their sounds
-Describe animals
-Describe foods the animals eat
-Meals of the day
-Basic food and
beverages
-Culturally
appropriate
vocabulary
-Food categories
-Likes/Dislikes
-I, you, he,she
-to be
-common colors
-common physical
adjectives
-common
personality traits
-Immediate family
vocabulary
-Integrate previous
topics
-Common
adjectives (different
spellings for
feminine and
masculine)
-Menu
-Role play
-oral activities
-Flashcards
-Quiz
-Presentation
of food plate
project.
-Writing
activities
-Biography
-Speaking
activity ex.describe a
celebrity
-Listening
activities
-Quiz
-Group workdescribing
activity
-Quiz
-Writing
activities
-Reading
activities
-Listening
-Family Tree
project or
describe one
family member
in detail
-Common animals
-Use of vocabulary
from other units
above
-Quiz
-Song activity
-Writing and
simple animal
reading
activities
-Listening
activity
-Students will
present in
target language
the animals
they have at
home.
IMPORTANT!!
Students will
keep a portfolio
throughout the
course which
their teacher will
pass on to their
7th grade teacher
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