Course : Spanish 5-6 Honors
Teacher : Ms. Arciniegas
Year: 2015-2016
Course Description: In this course students will be able to further strengthen their knowledge on topics covered in previous years. Students will expand their vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking skills necessary in a variety of scenarios that may be encountered when traveling or living in a Spanish country.
Students will also read, discuss and analyze works of literature in Spanish. Finally, students will prepare to take the L.O.T.E. exam at the end of the school year.
Text : Realidades 2 – Used in the classroom.
Realidades 2 Workbook – Can be purchased in the school store.
Units of study:
I - El futuro (Chapter 9A, 9B)
Objectives:
Making plans for the future and professions
What the world may be like in the future and solutions for the problems in the environment
The future tense
The present tense with expressions of doubt
– Literatura – El Renacimiento y el Barroco en la literatura española
II - De vacaciones (Chapter 8A, 8B)
Objectives:
Planning a trip, airport and traveling safely
Appropriate tourist behavior and traveling in a foreign city
The present subjunctive
Irregular verbs in the subjunctive
The subjunctive with impersonal expressions
- Literatura: Gabriel García Márquez
III - ¿Cómo se hace la paella? (Chapter 7A)
Objectives:
Review “ La comida ” and verbs with irregular yo forms
Cooking expressions
Food and appliances
Following a recipe
Affirmative and negative tú
commands
The impersonal se
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Literatura: Pablo Neruda
SECOND SEMESTER
IV - ¿Viste el partido en la televisión? (Chapter 6A)
Objectives:
Review “ los programas y las películas”
and verbs like “ gustar”
Television programs and sporting events
The preterite of –ir stem-changing verbs
Other reflexive verbs
V – ¿Qué pelicula has visto? (Chapter 6B)
Objectives:
Movies and making a movie
Verbs that use indirect objects pronouns
The present perfect
– Literatura – La Continuidad de los Parques
VI - Un acto heroico (Chapter 5A)
Objectives:
Review: “
La casa
”, expressions using “ tener
”
Natural disasters and crisis situations
Emergencies, rescues and heroic acts.
The preterite of the verbs oír, leer, creer and destruir
The preterite and the imperfect: other uses
VII - Un accidente (Chapter 5B)
Objectives:
Review parts of the body
Accidents and what happens in emergency rooms
Irregular preterites: venir, poner, decir and traer
Imperfect progresive and preterite.
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Literatura – La Casa de Bernarda Alba