SPANISH 5 SYLLABUS

2006-2007

Sister Mary Elayne, SND and Ms Linda Schalk

Required Project

Students will use class and homework time to collaborate on creating an extensive resource booklet of Spanish 4 materials (60-80 pages 8 ½ x 11).

Involved in this project will be the development of the following language skills:

• Transcribing Spanish conversations and passages based on intensive and precise listening.
• Vocabulary development
• Spelling accuracy in Spanish
• Grammar structure analysis
• Keyboard skills in entering data using Spanish accents and diacritical marks
• Organizing vocabulary, grammar and reading items into logical categories and sequences
• Becoming proficient in learning from the materials with which they are working

Spanish Language Structures

1. Nouns and Articles

· Nouns whose meaning is determined by gender

· Other parts of speech used as nouns (lo importante, el hablar)

2. Adjectives

· Changes of adjective position which influence meaning

3. Verbs

· Review of translations of basic verb tenses

· Uses of the subjunctive in adjective and adverb clauses

· Imperfect subjunctive formation

· “If” clauses mastered

· Formation and use of regular and irregular past participles

· Future perfect of regular and irregular verbs

· Conditional perfect of regular and irregular verbs

· Present perfect subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs

· Past perfect subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs

· Sequence of tenses

· Passive voice

4. Relative pronouns and Reciprocal pronouns
5. Advanced uses of conjunctions

Sources

Students will use the www.2nse.org materials for Spanish 4 as well as past National Spanish Tests for Level 4