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Spanish 11 Course Objectives: Interpersonal Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 11 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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Examples in context
(text, audio and video samples)

 

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

 

I can...

discuss my...

     

    opinions

Ch. 2


Ch. 2

video: Las súper mamás

video and text files: Reactions to lifting of Europe's sanctions in Cuba

 

 

    views of events

Ch. 3

video: Biography of Frida Kahlo

text and audio files: Rigoberta Menchú

text and video files: Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum

 

 

    hopes

  text: lyrics of "Color esperanza" by Diego Torres

 

 

    fears

Ch. 2 video: Desarrollo de niños  

    doubts

Ch. 1    

 

exchange information about my content area of focus (culture, international relations, etc.)

Ch. 1

Ch. 1

   

 

use and usted appropriately

     

 

address other Spanish-speakers appropriately according to their age, position or title, or according to other social rules

     

 

use formal or informal language with other Spanish-speakers according to their age and how well I know them

     

 

communicate...

    respect

     

 

    politeness

     

    gratitude

     

 

    friendliness

     

 

clarify and restate information

     

 

listen to and imitate how others speak

  video: Reading of Pablo Neruda's "El poema 20"  

 

seek support and feedback from others

     

 

self-monitor and evaluate my language development

     

 

correspond with friends (and family members)

     

 

correspond with an individual or agency to request information, for instance:

    write to a local consulate     to request tourist     information

     

 

    write to a news service,     Web site or news group to     request information an a     social or political event

     

 

exchange information about my content area of focus (culture, international relations, etc.) using the Internet

     

 

often correct myself when speaking

     

 

respond to the work of my peers