Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- a variety of the target language specific vocabulary.
- verb conjugations in a variety of time frames.
- to incorporate background knowledge of target language countries, influential figures and topics from other disciplines studied in earlier levels.
Skills
Intermediate Low Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- interpret simple statistics on daily life activities of their peers in the target language culture, such as schooling, freetime activities, and social media usage.
- identify and interpret basic information from authentic sources, such as news articles, event flyers, invitations, and advertisements.
- identify a few target language news sources and stores.
- use the target language to learn about other disciplines.
- use information learned in the target language in other disciplines.
Students are able to:
- identify and interpret basic information from authentic sources, such as news articles, event flyers, invitations, and advertisements.
- identify a few target language news sources and stores.
- use the target language to learn about other disciplines.
- use information learned in the target language in other disciplines.
- use the target language to make comparisons of similarities and differences in countries where target language is spoken.
- use the target language to converse and present on a variety of topics and other disciplines.
- use the target language to invesitgate and describe information learned in the target language.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
- strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
- a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
