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 Spanish 3 Course Objectives: Interpretive Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 3 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
(audio, video and text samples)

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

 

I can...

understand interactions involving...

     

 

    service transactions (e.g.,
    purchasing airline tickets,
    searching for an
    apartment)

     

 

    requests for favors

     

 

    emotions
    such as sympathy,
    admiration, anger or
    surprise

  video: expressing admiration and talking about emotions in the music of Juanes  

 

    apologies

     

 

    complaints

     

 

    opinions

     

 

    advice or suggestions

332-6, 345, 430-1, 484 video: Health advice (España)  

 

    (lack of) agreement

     

 

    doubts

469-71, 483    

 

summarize key points and main ideas in 20-40 minute oral presentations on an unfamiliar topic

 

video: Schooling in Cuba

video: Workers' rights (Venezuela)

video: Las Islas Baleares (España)

video: La Costa Brava (España)

 

 

take notes on 20-40 minute oral presentations

     

 

restate the topics in a set of TV news clips

     

 

understand 3-page readings about the Spanish-speaking world or contemporary issues

  text: globalization, free trade, and their relation to the digital divide  

 

read Internet or newspaper articles on subjects that interest me

     

 

compare the treatment of current events in the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking worlds

 

video: Undocumented Immigration in Spain (España)

video: Undocumented Immigration and Poltics in the U.S. (España)