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 Spanish 2 Course Objectives: Interpersonal Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 2 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)

 

I know a phrase or phrases I can use to...

become acquainted with people

2-4
25
   

address people appropriately according to their age and how well I know them

45    

 

make polite comments to people (e.g., "Dinner was delicious," or "Thank you for inviting me.")

     

 

ask questions to get information

13, 26, 115    

 

make comparisons

139-142, 159, 176, 183-185    

suggest or give advice

324-328    

 

give, accept, or reject apologies        
express my...

personal interests

10-12, 26
60-61
69-70
106
191-196
   

 

intentions and future plans

73-74 audio files: testimonials of Latino immigrant children in the U.S.  

wishes and preferences

191, 295    

 

opinions

154
222
301
   

 

emotions such as sympathy, admiration, anger or surprise

260-267
287
video: emotions and body weight (España)  

 

talk about...

friends and acquaintances

201-202
260-266 270-275
278-280, 291-295
   

 

the interests of others and of the community at large

10-12, 26, 60
106, 125
191-192, 195
270-271, 289-290
295-296
   

 

the future plans of others and of the community at large

77-8 audio files: testimonials of Latino immigrant children in the U.S.  

 

the interests of the Latino community in the U.S.

class and portfolio activities    

 

past experiences and events

81-99, 108-109
170-173
177, 185
238-240, 278
297
299-303
316
335-336

   

 

Go to a restaurant: (227, 235)

ask for a table for x people

     

 

order a meal from a menu

  video: ordering a meal from a menu (México)  

 

Call for the waiter or waitress

     

 

ask for the bill

     

 

Participate in an open air market:

make purchases

17, 57, 161, 163, 191    

 

get an attendant's attention

     

 

ask for prices

     

 

react to prices with exclamatory remarks

     

 

bargain for a better price

     

 

express satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a product

10-12, 26, 60, 106, 191-194 220    

 

sometimes correct myself as I speak