FIRST NINE WEEKS LEARNING FOCUS

Students will start the year at a Novice Mid-Novice High Proficiency level

• Novice Mid students express meaning in highly predictable contexts through the use of memorized and recalled words and phrases. They are best able to understand aural cognates, borrowed words, and high-frequency, highly contextualized words and phrases with repetition. Novice Mid students may be difficult to understand by the most sympathetic listeners and readers accustomed to dealing with language learners. Novice Mid students are inconsistently successful when performing Novice-level tasks.

• Novice High students express meaning In simple, predictable contexts through the use of learned and recombined phrases and short sentences. They are best able to understand sentence-length information within highly contextualized situations and sources. Novice High students may generally be understood by sympathetic listeners and readers accustomed to dealing with language learners. Novice High students are consistently successful when performing Novice-level tasks. Novice High students show evidence of Intermediate low proficiency but lack consistency.

             Vocabulary Focus: 

                                 Saying who you are – personality characteristics

                                  Daily activities and food

                                  Places in school and around town

                                  Saying how you feel

                                  Daily routine

                                  Making Plans

            Grammar Focus: 

                               Definite and indefinite articles

                               Subject Pronouns

                               Ser and Estar

                              Adjective Agreement

                              Verbs tener  & gustar

                              Ir +a + place

                             Regular Present Tense Verbs