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 Spanish 2 Course Objectives: Interpretive Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 2 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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Your confidence level:
1 (low) to
5 (high)

 

I can understand:

polite comments

     

 

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

     

 

telephone conversations

 

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

video: nutrition I (España)

 

 

expressions of people's:

     

 

    personal interests

10-13, 28, 74, 110, 195-9, 220    

 

    advice

332-6, 345

video: nutrition I (España)

video: nutrition II (España)

 

 

    wishes and preferences

     

 

    opinions

     

 

    apologies

     

 

    emotions  

video: emotions and body weight (España)

video: Depression (México)

   
    intentions and future plans  

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

   

descriptions of experiences and events

 

texts: internet site on Mexican legends

texts: internet site on Argentinean legends

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

video: Spanish influence in New Orleans

video: use of vaccinations in the U.S.

video: Sports headlines (España)

 

 

restate key ideas derived from 10-20 minute oral presentations

 

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

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

video: nutrition I (España)

video: nutrition II (España)

 

 

take notes on oral presentations

 

 

 

 

list the topics in a set of TV news clips

  video: Sports headlines (España)  

 

understand 2-page readings about the Spanish-speaking world/ 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