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 Spanish 1A Course Objectives: Interpretive Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 1A 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

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Examples in context
(text, audio and video samples)

 

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

Links to practice quizzes and activities:

(Under construction)

I can understand:

polite comments

     

simple transactions (e.g., purchasing theatre tickets or clothing)

     

 

telephone conversations

 

video: strangers on the telephone

video: acquaintances on the telephone

video: nutrition I (España)

 

 

questions and answers

14
48-9 119 146 153 188
   

 

weather reports 71-76 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

expressions of gratitude



   

 

invitations and respsonse to them        
descriptions of experiences and events 86-9
100-5

texts: Mexican legends

texts: Argentinean legends

texts: more Argentinean legends

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

video: Spanish influence in New Orleans

   

...expressions of peoples'...

personal interests, likes and dislikes

10-13 28
74
110
   

 

intentions and future plans

77-78 audio files: testimonials of Latino immigrant children in the U.S.  

 

wishes and preferences 76      
opinions 163      

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        

I can also:

glean biographical information from written texts  

texts: biographies of Latin American Nobel Prize winners

text: a Mexican woman's story of immigration, Latino immigrants' successes and struggles

text: a Guatemalan author's story of immigration and his observations of U.S.-Latin American cultural differences

 

 

restate key ideas derived from 10-20 minute 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)

audio: interview with Salma Hayek about her role as Frida Kahlo

audio: Spanish television report on Argentinean revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

 

 

take notes on oral presentations  

video: exercise (España)

   
list the 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 2-page readings about the Spanish-speaking world (including Latinos in the U.S.)  

text: cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz' views of immigration issues

text: a Mexican woman's story of immigration, Latino immigrants' successes and struggles

text: a Guatemalan author's story of immigration and his observations of U.S.-Latin American cultural differences