BUEN VIAJE- SYLLABUS
SPANISH LEVEL 2
SHAW HIGH SCHOOL
Course Title: Spanish 2
Standards of Learning :
Instructor: Senora Livingston
Email: mlivingston@mcsdga.net
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of first semester Spanish 1
Materials Needed: Buen Viaje: -Textbook
Writing Activities Workbook- Notebook (2) Grammar/Vocabulary
Projects: There will be one/two project/s or enrichment activity/ies assigned. A two
week notice will be given. These will be projects that will provide practice of learned skills and
an opportunity to expand the student’s knowledge of hispanic cultural topics.
Grades / Progress: A student’s overall grade will be composed of assessment in the
following areas:
Attendance and Participation in class - Homework Assignments
-Chapter Quizzes - Unit Tests
Grading Scale:
Homework and written work – 50 %
Projects/Tests – 20%
Quizzes – 20%
Oral Participation/ Listening – 10%
Homework will be assigned every day and will always be due the next class meeting.
Testing:
Weekly quizzes will take place every Week. They will assess vocabulary acquisition and
structure skills.
Chapter tests will take place after completion of each chapter. Chapter tests will be
notified a week in advance. They will test reading and writing skills, and cultural
knowledge introduced in the chapter.
Course description:
The textbook will be the most important tool, and it is therefore necessary that each
student bring it to every class meeting. The key focus in each chapter of the textbook will
be on the sections of vocabulario, estructura and conversación. The section of
vocabulario will introduce the student to vocabulary centered around a specific topic
covering key situations where you would have to use Spanish to survive; the section of
estructura will then introduce the student to grammar skills which aim at enabling
coherent communication; the section of conversación will focus on oral language
development.
Finally, it will be important that each student browse through the handbook section at the
end of the textbook. It has some helpful tips and resources that will definitely come in
handy throughout the year!
Our main focus in class will be to allow for oral and auditory language development,
pronunciation will be modeled and in-class activities will require oral participation.
Outside of class time, the student will be held responsible for studying new and previous
vocabulary and for completing assigned practice exercises that will allow for application
of structure skills presented in the chapter, aside from any other projects that may be
assigned as homework.
Specific Course Objectives:
Enable the student to communicate in oral and written Spanish.
Enable the student to comprehend oral and written Spanish.
Introduce the student to the culture of the Spanish speaking world.
COURSE OUTLINE: SPANISH 2-Buen viaje
REPASO
Review
A,B,C,D,E,F,G : Las compras para la escuela.Amigos y alumnos.La
familia. Los deportes. Un viaje en Avion. La rutina y la salud. El verano y el
invierno.
Present tense
Unit Grammar/Language Topic Cultural Topic
Level 1 Review
1 Un viaje en tren
Train travel
Travel related activities
Preterite/irregular
Jose Luis and Maripaz take the AVE
train to Seville
Taking the train from Cuzco to Macchu
Picchu
La Plaza de Armas, Cuzco
The 24-hour clock and the metric system
2 En el restaurante
Restaurants
Foods and eating utensils
Stem changing verbs in
present/preterit
Typical cuisine from Mexico
Typical cuisine from Spain
Typical foods from the Caribbean
Regional vocabulary in the Spanish speaking
World Vistas of Ecuador
3 Telecomunicaciones
Telecommunications
Computers, e-mails, internet, faxes
and telephones
Uses of the imperfect tense
Carmen Tordesillas, a future engineer,
A telephone card in Spain, advances in
computer technology
4 De tiendas
Shopping appeal and food in Spanish
speaking countries.
Quantities and sizes
Prices
Preterit versus imperfect
Shopping in the Spanish speaking world
The traditional market of
Chichicastenango
Vistas de Chile
5 Los pasatiempos
Hobbies and games
Activities in the park
Giving locations
Future tense
Comparatives and superlatives
Typical Sunday activities in parks in
Spanish-speaking countries
Typical game arcade in Spanish-speaking
countries
Playing dominos in Spain
6 En el hotel
Making a hotel reservation
Checking into a hotel
Checking out of a hotel
Talking about a hotel room
Talking about a bathroom
Talking about cleaning a hotel room
Irregular verbs in the future
Direct/indirect object pronouns
Hostels for students in Spanish-speaking
countries
A trip to Spain
Compare Villalba Inn in Lugo, Galicia to
the San Francisco Inn in Granada,
Andalucía
7 En vuelo
Air travel
Airplanes and crews
On-board services
Airports
Geography
Conditional of regular/irregular
verbs
Object pronouns with SE
Flying into the high elevation airport at
La Paz
Emilio Carranza, a Latin American
aviation hero
The geography of Spain and its influence
on Spanish history
Vistas of Costa Rica
8 Emergencias medicas
Accidents and medical problems
Parts of the body
Parts of the face
Present perfect
Irregular participles
Equality comparison
Estefanía Reyes, nurse practitioner, in a
small town in the Andes of Peru
Health care options in various Spanishspeaking
countries
Problems in medicine today
Extra Credit Materials
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6 Pack of Multiple color Glitter
2 rolls of yarn bright colors
1 Pack of multiple yarn
kabobs ticks large 1 pack (Wal-Mart bbq area)
1 pack of white paper