Level: Form III (7th–9th grades), Form IV (10th–12th grades)
Subject(s): Spanish
Description:
Current for 2026–2027
This class is meant to follow Spanish 4 and is for students entering a fifth 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 30–45 minutes per day, 3 days a week.
Learning Goals:
- Review and expand on vocabulary and grammar from Spanish 4
- Use proper grammar for writing and speaking.
- Build automaticity with prior verb tenses already learned.
- More in-depth study of Subjunctive Mood vs Indicative Mood.
- Learn advanced uses of Infinitive verbs.
- Learn adverbial expressions.
- Learn polite requests with Imperfect Subjunctive.
- Learn constructions with “se” for passive voice or impersonal subject.
- Learn punctuation & capitalization rules.
- Learn temporal expressions with HACER & LLEVAR.
- Learn advanced numbers.
- Learn indefinite words
- Learn uses of the word “lo.”
- Practice “real-world communications” in Spanish (idiomatic expressions).
- Discuss literature, daily life, and current events in Spanish.
- Further build reading comprehension, writing skills, and conversation in Spanish, via unit studies on Latin American and Spanish poetry, music and short stories.
- 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.
Materials:
Families must purchase the following required supplies for the 2026–2027 school year:
- One-inch three-ring binder with 5 dividers, lined paper, pens/pencil (a larger binder could be
shared with another class, but please have 5 dedicated dividers for the Spanish section)
Students entering Advanced Spanish at BHSC must have the following parent-purchased supplies:
- Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level 3 (Advanced) Student Book
- Breaking the Spanish Barrier – Level 3 (Advanced) Answer Key
Note for returning students: This is the same red BTSB book that we used in Spanish 4. We will
complete this book in Spanish 5, so no new BTSB Student Book and Answer Key is needed if you have
these two items (book and answer key) from BHSC Spanish 4.
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Teachers will provide: song lyrics, poems, and short stories.
