Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- common idiomatic expressions in the target language.
- formal and informal forms of address and language.
- the target language vocabulary for specific purposes.
- how to communicate in a variety of tenses and moods.
Skills
Intermediate High Level
Students are able to:
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:
- culture and language are inextricably linked together.
- structures and writing systems of the target language and English have similarities and differences.
- different linguistic structures communicate different meanings.
- by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
- other understandings will depend on theme taught.
