Student Learning Outcomes 1. Students can participate with ease and confidence in conversations on familiar topics.
2. Students can usually talk about events and experiences in various time frames.
3. Students can usually describe people, places, and things.
4. Students can handle social interactions in everyday situations, sometimes even when there is an unexpected complication.
5. Students can make presentations in a generally organized way on school, work, and community topics, and on topics they have researched.
6. Students can make presentations on some events and experiences in various time frames.
7. Students can write on topics related to school, work, and community in a generally organized way.
8. Students can write some simple paragraphs about events and experiences in various time frames.
9. Students can easily understand the main idea in messages and presentations on a variety of topics related to everyday life and personal interests and studies.
10. Students can usually understand a few de- tails of what they overhear in conversations, even when something unexpected is expressed.
11. Students can sometimes follow what they hear about events and experiences in various time frames.
12. Students can easily understand the main idea of texts related to everyday life, personal interests, and studies.
13. Students can sometimes follow stories and descriptions about events and experiences in various time frames.Course Description This course is based on the integration of learning outcomes across Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational Modes of Communication at the Intermediate High Level of proficiency based on ACTFL guidelines. Students accomplish real-world communicative tasks in culturally appropriate ways as they gain familiarity with the target culture(s). This is an intermediate course aimed at helping the student to communicate in Spanish on familiar topics about self, others and everyday life at the same time that they recognize and handle short social interactions in interactions in everyday situations by asking and answering a variety of questions.