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 Spanish 1 Course Objectives: Interpersonal Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 1 student progress in interpersonal language. Use this checklist as your "Progress Card" to track your development in Spanish. As you learn to do each item, note your confidence level in performing each task. You will want to practice and review these objectives repeatedly on your own, with your native-speaking conversation partner, and with your instructor.

Be sure to peruse the interpretive and presentational objectives for the course as well.

Click here for a printable version of the entire Progress Card, with interpersonal, intrepretive and presentational objectives.

Language Learning Objectives:
Click on an objective for a list of key phrases to learn

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Your confidence level:
1 (low) to
5 (high)

 

Meet, greet, and take leave of people:

introduce myself and say my name

2, 25 video and text: meeting someone new (Ecuador)  

ask someone his or her name

3, 25    

 

introduce others

3-4    

 

greet friends

2-3
25

video and text: greet a friend (Argentina)

video and text: greet classmates (Ecuador)

 

 

greet friends, strangers and acquaintances appropriately

2-3
25
45
video and text files: greeting friends and professors at the university (México)  

say good-bye to friends

3, 25    

 

take leave of friends, strangers and acquaintances appropriately

3, 25 video and text: say goodbye to a friend (Argentina)  

 

ask friends, friends, strangers and acquaintances "How are you?" appropriately

  video and text: greet an acquaintence (Argentina)  

 

say how I am

  video and text: greet an acquaintence (Argentina)  

 

express gratitude

     

 

talk about myself and others:

state my major

7, 13
25-6
   

 

say where I'm from

2, 4-5
25
   

ask someone where s/he is from

2, 4-5
27
   

 

talk about my activities

39-41 53 58
79
105-109
   

 

talk about my interests, likes and dislikes

10-12 26
70
106
   

 

express my future plans

73-74    

 

ask others questions to learn about them

13
45-46 115 143 149 184
   

 

talk about my family members

112-3 118-21 137

video: spirituality and family (Cuba)  

 

describe people's physical features

139 144 159 video: exercise(España)  

 

describe people's personalities

14-15
26
144
159
   

talk about others' work activities

30-39
53
56-57
61-62
79
106
   

 

talk about others' interests, likes and dislikes

10-12
60-61
106
   

 

talk about others' future plans

73-74    

 

talk about others' past activities

81-84
96-100

   

 

ask questions to get information

13
25-26
115

   

 

use the telephone:

answer a phone call

     

 

say whether the recipient of the call is at home

     

 

ask for the person to whom I wish to speak

 

video and text: calling and asking for a friend (México)

video and text: calling and talking a friend(España)

video and text: talking with a friend's parent on the phone (Ecuador)

video and text: calling and asking for a friend, calling an office (Nicaragua)

 

 

tell someone it's the wrong number

     

 

say good-bye

3, 25    

 

say when I don't understand

25    

 

extend, accept and reject invitations:

extend an invitation

     

 

accept an invitation

     

 

reject an invitation

     

 

in conversation...

sometimes correct myself when I speak