Spanish Language Program home sitemap
first year second year third year oral communication home-background speakers instructors resources
 Spanish 1 Course Objectives: Interpretive Language
Overview
Spanish 1
Spanish 2
Spanish 3
Spanish 1A
Spanish 2A
Course Format
Grading
Attendance Policy
Stanford Honor Code
Office of Accessible Education

 

Below is a list of goals for Spanish 1 student progress in interpretive 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 interpersonal 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

See text pages

Examples in context
(text, audio and video samples)

 

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

Links to practice activities and quizzes:

 

I can understand:

introductions

2, 25    

greetings

2, 25    

 

good-byes

3, 25    

 

simple questions and simple answers

25-26,
45-47, 115
   

 

weather reports 71-72 79 video: weather report (Cuba)

video: weather report 1 (España)

 

 

video: weather report 2 (España)

  ¿Qué tiempo hace en Cuba? (activity to accompany weather report from Cuba)

practice quiz for weather report 2

answer key to practice quiz for weather report 2

requests for information and information requested 13
115
     

expressions of gratitude



   

 

invitations and responses to them        

I can...

list ideas in oral presentations

 

video: African heritage in Mexico

video: Complete series of UNAM documentary shorts on Mexico's multicultural heritage

video: spirituality and family (Cuba)

video: back-to-school (México)

 

 

identify topics in a set of TV news clips

 

video: local news (Argentina)

video: deportation of a local Mexican immigrant family

 

 

 

practice quiz and answer key to accompany clip on deportation of a local Mexican immigrant family

understand 1-page readings if I'm familiar with the topic and vocabulary

     

 

glean biographical information from written texts

 

  texts: biographies of Latin American Nobel Prize winners  

 

I can understand information in...

bus, train or plane schedules

 

train schedules (España)

plane schedules mexicana.com

 

 

movie, TV or theatre listings

  TV listings for Univisión  

 

public signs