Advanced Spanish

Description:

This class is meant to follow Spanish 3 and is for students entering a fourth year of Form 3 & 4 Spanish studies.

Combining interactive and conversation-driven learning with traditional grammar and vocabulary instruction, this course will help students in their journey to speak Spanish fluently. Students will work through Breaking the Spanish Barrier, a curriculum that engages students through a variety of activities and techniques.

In order to gain mastery and grow toward fluency, students will be expected to complete work outside of class each week including listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.  Homework expectation is approximately 30 minutes per day, 3 days a week.

Learning Goals:

• Review and expand on vocabulary and grammar from Spanish 3.
• Use proper grammar for writing and speaking.
• Review and expand on prior verb tenses already learned.
• Learn remaining verb tenses (future perfect, conditional perfect, present perfect subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive).
• By the end of Spanish 4, students will have learned all verb tenses in Spanish and will grow in fluency with choosing which tense to use.
• More in-depth study of Subjunctive Mood vs Indicative Mood.
• Discuss literature, daily life, and current events in Spanish.
• Review and expand on pronoun usage in Spanish, including constructions with “se.”
• Making equal and unequal comparisons.
• Further build reading comprehension, writing skills, and conversation (“book talk”) in Spanish, with a year-long deep dive novel study.
• Practice “real-world communications” in Spanish (idiomatic expressions).
• Grow in speaking fluency and self-initiated vocabulary learning via class “debates” (friendly opinion sharing on fun and engaging topics).
• More advanced students will have opportunity for more advanced reading, writing, listening comprehension and conversation.

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