Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to communicate in a variety of tenses and moods.
- the target language vocabulary for specific purposes.
- how to identify and distinguish between products, practices and perspectives of culture.
Skills
Intermediate Mid Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- use the target langauge to identify and compare the products, practices and perspectives of the target culture.
- use target langauge to compare activities and events of the target culture and native culture.
- use target langauge to compare the practices of target and native culture.
- identify games, fairy tales, songs, and rhymes from the target culture and compare them with those of the native culture.
Students are able to:
- compare and contrast the products, practices and perspectives of the target culture to their native culture in a variety of time frames and moods in the target language.
- communicate in the target language in a variety of time frames and moods.
- use target langauge to compare activities and events of the target culture and native culture.
- use target langauge to compare the practices of target and native culture.
- identify games, fairy tales, songs, and rhymes from the target culture and compare them with those of the native culture.
- identify and use borrowed words and cognates in the language they are learning and their own, and hypothesize about their origins.
- compare and analyze idiomatic expressions in the language they are learning and their own, and hypothesize about their origins. compare language appropriate to specific social groups and situations in the language they are learning and their own. compare syntax functions (e.g., word order and inflections) to express meaning in the target language and in English).
Understanding
Students understand that:
- the products, practices and perspectives of culture are intertwined.
- a culture's perspectives are present in its products and practices.
- custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
- by studying another culture, one can better understand and appreciate their own.
- other understanding will depend on theme being taught.
