Objectives for Week One:

Be able to perform the objectives of the previous quarter, such as:

Interpersonal:
Describe your immediate world
Describe your activities, past and present
Describe the activities of others, past and present
Ask and answer simple questions
Give and request information

Intrepretive:
Understand connected discourse in an expository text
Understand simple questions
Understand information requested
List ideas in brief oral presentations

Presentational:
Present a rehearsed report on  a topic related to the Spanish-speaking world
Answer questions about your presentation topic
Edit your compositions with extra attention to correcting frequent errors

(For a complete list of the objectives for last quarter, see the Spanish 1 Progress Card at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish1.html.)

Interpersonal:                 
Name items in your immediate world:  foods 
Express likes and dislikes

Presentational:
Write using a wide array of language functions from Spanish 1, such as talking about past events and describing people and their activities

Objectives for Week Two:

Interpersonal:
Name items in your immediate world:  foods (cont.)
Express likes and dislikes 
Give and request information
Ask and answer simple questions
Communicate wishes and preferences
Give opinions
Participate in a service encounter
Use linguistic strategies to interact and obtain information with greater frequency in service encounters

Interpretive:
Take notes on ideas expressed in brief oral presentations on factual topics about which you have little or no knowledge
Understand connected discourse in an expository text

Presentational:            
Revise your composition for content, organization, and style

Objectives for Week Three:

Interpersonal:
Communicate wishes and preferences
Give opinions

Interpretive:
Restate key details expressed in oral presentations on factual topics about  which you have some knowledge
Become familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world
Understand a 2-page reading, such as  an article in a local Spanish language newspaper, about a local Spanish-speaking community

Presentational:
Edit your composition with extra attention to correcting frequent errors

Objectives for Week Four:

Interpersonal:
Communicate wishes and preferences
Give opinions
Make comparisons
Talk about past experiences

Interpretive:
Understand opinions
Understand comparisons


Presentational:
Write a two-page report on the life events—past and present—of my conversation partner
Write descriptions that display increasingly complex language functions, such as describing experiences and situations

Objectives for Week Five:

Interpersonal:
Describe your immediate world: past events (Review)
Ask and answer simple questions (Review)
Describe people (Review)
Give opinions (Review)
Make comparisons (Review)
Talk about feelings

Interpretive:
Understand connected discourse in an expository text (Review)
List ideas in brief oral presentations of which you have some knowledge (Review)
Become familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world (Review)

Presentational:
Revise your composition for content, organization, and style

Objectives for Week Six:

Interpersonal:
Talk about feelings
Make comparisons
Talk about leisure activities
Handle a hospital service encounter
Give recommendations

Interpretive:
Understand discussions of feelings
Understand comparisons
Understand talk about leisure activities
Understand talk about health and health recommendations
Take notes on ideas expressed in brief oral presentations on factual topics about which you have little or no knowledge
Become familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world

Presentational:
Edit your composition with extra attention to correcting frequent errors

Objectives for Week Seven:

Interpersonal:
Extend, accept, and reject invitations
Talk about habitual actions in the past
Talk about leisure activities

Interpretive:
Understand invitations, acceptances and rejections
Understand discussions of habitual actions in the past
Understand discussions of leisure activities
Become familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world

Presentational:
Write a two-page report on a topic of interest that reflects your knowledge of the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world

Objectives for Week Eight:

Interpersonal:
Give opinions
Begin to be able to tell a story about something that happened in the past
Talk about injuries

Interpretive:
Become familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world
Restate key details expressed in oral presentations on factual topics about which you have some knowledge

Presentational:
Revise your composition for content, organization, and style

Objectives for Week Nine:

Interpersonal:
Talk about habitual activities in the past
Give orders
Give, accept, and reject apologies

Interpretive:
Understand talk about habitual activities
Understand orders
Understand apologies and responses to them
Take notes on ideas expressed in oral presentations on factual topics of which you have little or no knowledge
Become familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world

Presentational:
Edit your composition with extra attention to correcting frequent errors

Objectives for End-Quarter Period:

Interpretive:
Give, accept, and reject apologies List ideas in brief oral presentations

Presentational:
Give, accept, and reject apologies Present a rehearsed report pf 10-20 minutes in length
Give, accept, and reject apologies Answer questions about your prepared presentation topic
Give, accept, and reject apologies Ask questions of others following their presentations