Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- a variety of the target language specific vocabulary.
- verb conjugations in a variety of time frames.
- are familiar with current events and news across the world.
- are familiar with the impact of marketing and how it reveals a target culture's perspectives.
Skills
Intermediate Low Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- describe photos, artwork, images, charts, and videos.
- ask simple questions about photos, artwork, images, charts, and videos.
- identify the main idea and topic of online articles, videos, advertisements, announcements, and social media posts.
- recognize target language perspectives on basic cultural topics such as families, holidays, food.
Students are able to:
- use the target language to find and analyze information on the diverse perspectives of the target culture and make comparisons with the diverse perspectives of their own culture.
- use the target language to make comparison of current events and how they are reported.
- use the target language to identify advertisements and compare them with target culture and students'own culture.
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.
