WL17.WL.L5.8

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

Students know:

Intermediate High Level
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.

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.