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Spanish I Lesson Objectives
Unit 1: AMIGOS EN EL MUNDO
Assignment
Objectives
A comenzar: Las primeras palabras
Interpret words and phrases with similar root words.
Discover locations in the U.S. where it's beneficial to know Spanish.
Identify words in English that have a Spanish root.
¿Dónde se habla español en el mundo?
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the geography of the Spanishspeaking world.
El alfabeto
Memorize the Spanish alphabet.
Arrange each letter of the alphabet to spell and pronounce any
word in the Spanish language.
Saludos y expresiones
Demonstrate how to greet people by using a variety of phrases.
Cómo saludamos en los países de habla hispana
Ask and answer the question 'How are you doing?' in Spanish.
Develop basic greetings.
Use proper greetings when addressing people from a Spanishspeaking community.
Los pronombres: Primera parte
Use Spanish pronouns in conversations.
Compare English and Spanish pronouns.
Los pronombres: Segunda parte
Review subject pronouns.
Recognize the importance of using the proper language when
addressing others.
Identify more Spanish pronouns and their uses.
Los nombres y los artículos definidos
Match the correct gender to articles, adjectives, and nouns
Form the plural forms of articles and nouns
Los colores: Una introducción a los adjetivos
Correctly place adjectives that describe color in a phrase.
Match words in gender and number that describe the color of
objects.
Use adjectives to describe the color of objects.
Practiquemos más adjetivos
Apply adjectives of nationality to describe people and use the
correct form of the word in number and gender.
En clase
Apply new and previously taught phrases in Spanish.
Los verbos
Conjugate and apply the six forms of Spanish verbs in the first
conjugation.
Understand that the basic form of every verb is the infinitive and that
it can be conjugated .
Más verbos
Communicate information about yourself in Spanish.
Proyecto: ¡Vamos a viajar!
Increase cultural knowledge of the Spanish-speaking countries.
Repaso
Review for the unit exam.
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Unit 2: AMIGOS EN EE.UU.
Assignment
Objectives
Las oportunidades de usar el español
Identify the Spanish-speaking population of the United States (U.S.).
Recognize general Hispanic and Latino influence in Texas.
Demonstrate comprehension of descriptive vocabulary in Spanish
when talking about yourself and others.
Recognize general Hispanic and Latino influence on America's
culture, history, and language.
Lo que no hacemos
Recognize basic facts about the population of Texas.
Distinguish between a positive and a negative verb conjugation.
Los números parte 1
Identify numbers in Spanish.
Recognize basic facts about the population of California.
Los números parte 2
¿Qué día es hoy?
Identify numbers in Spanish.
Identify months of the year in Spanish.
Identify the days of the week in Spanish.
Recognize places in the Hispanic community of California.
¿Qué hora es?
Identify times in Spanish from a departure and arrival schedule.
Practice telling time in Spanish for times from the hour to half past the
hour.
Más sobre la hora
Practice telling time in Spanish for times beyond half past the hour.
Identify times in Spanish from a departure and arrival schedule.
Identify cultural activities that can be done in Washington D.C.
¿Formal o no?
Identify cultural information related to the Hispanic communities of
Washington D.C.
Distinguish between formal and informal ways of addressing people
in Spanish.
¿Cómo es?
Recognize basic facts about an important Venezuelan music
program .
Practice making Spanish adjectives match the nouns they modify.
Identify cultural information related to the Hispanic communities of
New York.
Estructura y partes de la oración
Distinguish between adverbs and other parts of speech.
Practice using adverbs in Spanish.
Cómo empezar una conversación. Las presentaciones
Practice introducing people in Spanish.
Practice using possessive adjectives.
Recall basic facts about the Spanish-speaking communities in Miami.
Proyecto: ¿Cómo es mi familia?
Demonstrate communication skills in Spanish by using descriptions.
Repaso
Review for Unit 2 test
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Unit 3: AMIGOS EN MÉXICO
Assignment
Objectives
¡Ay Chihuahua! ¡Hay tantas culturas en México!
Review the locations of Spanish-speaking countries.
Demonstrate comprehension of basic information about Mexico's
land, culture, and people.
¿En qué se diferencia mi vida de la vida en México?
Demonstrate a general comprehension of the Mexican culture and
traditions that can be observed in Monterrey, Mexico.
¡Vamos a la playa!
Recognize activities that can be done within Mexico's vast terrain.
La tierra del jarabe tapatío
Identify basic information about several beach resort towns in
Mexico.
Identify basic information about Guadalajara.
La historia de México: Un vistazo a su gente
Recall basic information about Guanajuato, Mexico.
a través del arte
Recognize general information about the history of the indigenous
people of Mexico as seen in Mexican art.
Una historia de amor: A practicar los verbos en México
D.F.
Demonstrate an understanding of the history of México City
and the Aztecs.
Recall and practice irregular verbs in Spanish.
Read a selection of traditional Mexican folklore.
La cultura en el mercado: Una visita a Veracruz
Recognize cultural information, such as foods, about Veracruz,
Mexico.
La quinceañera: Una invitación especial
Recognize expressions to accept and decline invitations.
¡Vamos a la corrida!: Una estancia en
Recall the dates of important Mexican holidays
Campeche
Demonstrate a basic understanding of life in Campeche, Mexico,
and of the traditional bullfight.
El mundo maya
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the Mayan civilization.
¡Qué viva México! ¡Viva la independencia!
Demonstrate an understanding of activities that can be done while
visiting Merida, Yucatan.
Recall the date and other basic facts about Mexico's Independence
Day.
¡Qué padre es México! Una carta a la familia
Apply the steps to reading effectively in a foreign language.
Demonstrate understanding of a passage written in Spanish.
Proyecto: Mi amigo mexicano
Apply knowledge of Mexican culture.
Apply irregular verbs in Spanish.
Repaso
Review for unit 3 test
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Unit 4: AMIGOS EN ARGENTINA
Assignment
Objectives
Charlie y Sophie llegan a Buenos Aires
Recall vocabulary in Spanish dealing with the family.
Identify cultural information about Argentina, especially Buenos Aires.
Una visita familiar: ¡Vamos a tomar el té!
Apply Spanish vocabulary dealing with food.
Identify some Argentinean cultural foods.
Know and recognize the diminutive ending for nouns in Spanish.
Apply vocabulary in Spanish dealing with water activities.
Una súper naturaleza: Una de las cataratas
Recognize Spanish prefixes that emphasize adjectives and adverbs.
más grandes de América
Demonstrate an understanding of the necessary word order to form a
question in Spanish.
Apply Spanish vocabulary for outdoor activities that can be done in
a park.
Bosques de Palermo: Un día en el parque
Use interrogatives words in Spanish to ask and answer questions.
Apply Spanish vocabulary to outdoor activities that can be done in a
park.
Identify three famous Argentinians.
Mar del Plata: ¡Vamos a pasarla re-bien en la playa!
Understand that there is a unique form of Spanish spoken in
Argentina.
Apply Spanish vocabulary dealing with outdoor activities, the beach,
family, and foods.
¡Vamos a bailar!
Identify the impact of Italian cuisine on Argentinan food.
Know the basic history of the tango in Argentina.
Use vocabulary in Spanish to talk about family.
El valle de Lerma: una rica historia
Identify the Spanish word used to describe a person's likes.
Recognize general details of the culture, history, and daily life in Salta,
Argentina.
Practice asking and answering questions in Spanish about basic
descriptions of people.
Understand when people describe their personality and likes.
La vida en las pampas de Argentina
Practice answering questions in Spanish.
Briefly describe life on the Argentinean Pampas.
¡A disfrutar el aire libre!: Un viaje por el oeste
Apply vocabulary in Spanish to outdoor activities, animals, ordering
foods, and requesting items in a hotel.
Demonstrate an understanding of land and customs in western
Argentina.
¡Qué frío hace en Santa Cruz!
Understand the basic geography of Patagonia, Argentina.
Use the rules for applying accent marks in Spanish when identifying
words that should be written with them.
Apply vocabulary in Spanish that deals with interests and family to
ask questions and to express personal information.
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Unit 4: AMIGOS EN ARGENTINA (CONT.)
Assignment
Objectives
Una reunión familiar fantástica: Vamos a la Tierra del
Fuego
Apply Spanish vocabulary that deals with family members.
Proyecto: Mi familia
Apply Spanish vocabulary to family.
Apply cultural knowledge of Argentinean family life covered in this
unit.
Repaso
Review for Unit 4 test.
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Unit 5: AMIGOS EN HONDURAS Y EL SALVADOR
Assignment
Objectives
Sophie y Charlie llegan a Honduras
Identify verb tenses in Spanish.
Recall basic geographical and cultural information about Honduras.
Know basic weather vocabulary.
Un árbol muy útil: La Ceiba
Recognize some basic cultural information about the town of La
Ceiba, Honduras.
Utilize basic weather expressions in Spanish to describe some weather
conditions.
¡Hace frío y llueve, pero no nieva!
Recognize basic cultural information about the island of Roatan, and
about Honduras and its indigenous people.
Apply stem-changing verbs when talking about the weather.
El mundo maya en Honduras
Recognize basic cultural information about Copán, Honduras.
Practice writing accent marks on words with suffixes and prefixes.
¿Qué podemos comprar en Honduras?
Recognize basic cultural information about city life in Honduras.
Understand that there are different Spanish dialects and accents.
In Spanish, discuss the weather and some articles of clothing that
should be worn in specific types of weather.
¿Cuándo?, no entiendo.
Identify verb tenses and the phrases that signify them.
Discuss the basic history and daily life of Omoa, Honduras.
Charlie y Sophie llegan a El Salvador
Identify basic information dealing with the climate and geography of
El Salvador.
Identify weather conditions in Spanish.
Estimate the Fahrenheit temperature when the Celsius temperature is
known.
El clima de El Salvador
Identify weather conditions in Spanish.
Identify basic information dealing with the climate and geography of
El Salvador.
Proyecto: Un mapa del tiempo
Practice Spanish vocabulary to describe the weather.
¿Es Carlos sensible?
Discuss cultural elements of the Archaeological Route of El Salvador.
Identify false cognates in Spanish.
Trabajamos todos: el café salvadoreño
Discuss cultural elements of the Flower Route in El Salvador.
Use Spanish adverbs of frequency to discuss how often things
happen.
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Unit 5: AMIGOS EN HONDURAS Y EL SALVADOR (CONT.)
Assignment
Objectives
Las artesanias, ¡qué buen trabajo!
Recognize false cognates when reading Spanish.
Discuss cultural elements of the Route of Artistic Paradise in El
Salvador.
¿Qué están haciendo?
Apply the present participle in Spanish to discuss what is happening
right now.
Discuss cultural elements of the Artisan Trail in El Salvador.
¡No se puede decir que lo que es saludable
Discuss cultural elements of the Peace Route in El Salvador.
no es delicioso!
Apply the present participle in Spanish to express what is happening
right now.
Proyecto: Un viaje inolvidable
Apply Spanish vocabulary to travel and weather.
Repaso
Review for Unit 5 test.
Unit 6: REPASO Y EXAMEN SEMESTRAL
Assignment
Objectives
Repaso
Review and reinforce Spanish 1 concepts from Units 1-5 in
preparation for the semester exam.
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Unit 7: AMIGOS EN PUERTO RICO
Assignment
Objectives
Sophie y Charlie llegan a la capital de Puerto Rico:
San Juan
Analyze Spanish adjectives to modify them, to place them correctly
in a sentence, and to interpret their meanings.
Understand Puerto Rico's relationship to the United States.
Identify historical and political information about Old San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Apply the rules for using adjectives in Spanish.
¡Buen provecho! de Guavate!
Identify cultural and environmental facts about Puerto Rico's climate
changes and educational practices.
Identify cultural facts about Puerto Rico's political parties.
Identify cultural facts about Puerto Rico's foods.
Apply the rules for the placement of adjectives in Spanish.
Proyecto: ¡Vamos a freir los plátanos amarillos!
Interpret a recipe in Spanish for making fried plantains.
¡A la orden! Un dia de compras en la plaza
Identify cultural items from Puerto Rico.
Las Américas.
Interpret and respond to audio in Spanish.
Un clima tropical: El Yunque
Analyze Spanish text and respond to questions.
Compare major natural attractions in Puerto Rico by using
comparison phrases with Spanish adjectives.
Recognize key facts about Puerto Rico's national and state parks.
Un festival en la plaza central de Toa Baja
Identify details about the history of the cultural music of Puerto Rico.
Analyze Spanish text to interpret meanings by using cognates and
prior knowledge.
El turismo en Piñones
Know key facts about tourism and cuisine in Puerto Rico.
Identify parts of a typical house in Puerto Rico by using vocabulary in
Spanish.
Recognize limiting and descriptive adjectives in Spanish and arrange
them in the proper place with the nouns they modify.
El festival nacional indigena de Jayuya
Identify cultural and geographical facts of the town of Jayuya.
Practice using the future tense in Spanish.
Identify cultural and geographical facts of the Taino culture.
El paisaje de la playa por la costa de la isla
Practice using the future tense in Spanish.
Identify cultural and geographical aspects of Puerto Rico's crafts and
the western coastline tourist destinations.
La vida ponceña
Identify tourist destinations on the eastern coastline of Puerto Rico.
Use vocabulary dealing with parts of a house and household
appliances.
Apply the conjugations of regular and irregular future-tense verbs in
Spanish.
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Unit 7: AMIGOS EN PUERTO RICO (CONT.)
Assignment
Objectives
A parrandear por la isla
Recognize the cultural celebration of the Christmas season in Puerto
Rico.
Analyze adjectives to determine their meaning.
Proyecto: Hagámos conjuntos: Comparemos
Apply vocabulary in Spanish dealing with parts of a house.
las casas
Compare and contrast the styles of houses in Puerto Rico and the
United States (U.S.).
El territorio de Karst: un paraiso con cavernas
Analyze Spanish audio to respond to questions.
Describe the caves of Puerto Rico.
¡Vamos a Vieques a acampar!
Analyze Spanish text and audio to interpret meaning by using
cognates and prior knowledge, and to respond to questions.
Identify tourist, cultural, and political points of interest on the smaller
islands of Puerto Rico.
Identify a political point of interest on the smaller islands of Puerto
Rico.
Proyecto: ¡Hagamos un modelo de la casa perfecta!
Apply Spanish vocabulary to construct and describe your future
dream house.
Repaso
Review for Unit 7 test
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Unit 8: AMIGOS EN ESPAÑA
Assignment
Objectives
Carlos y Sofía llegan a Madrid, la capital de España
Identify characteristics of the daily life, culture, and history of Madrid,
Spain.
Proyecto: España y mi país
Investigate the historic influence of Spain on the United States.
¡Otro día en Madrid!
Identify cultural and historical aspects of life in Madrid, Spain.
Un día en la universidad de Salamanca
Practice discussing foods in Spanish.
Understand the cultural significance of bullfighting in Spain.
Identify cultural aspects of life in Salamanca, Spain.
Carlos y Sofía llegan a Pamplona
La cultura catalana de España
Identify cultural aspects of Pamplona, Spain.
List the languages spoken in Catalonia, Spain.
Identify cultural aspects of the autonomous community of Catalonia,
Spain.
La cultura gallega en España
Identify different foods in Spanish.
Know how to politely make requests in Spanish.
Identify characteristics of the culture and food of Galicia, Spain.
Proyecto: Las comidas que me gustan
Practice using the vocabulary dealing with food in Spanish.
Un vistazo a España central
Identify characteristics of the history and culture of the central region
of Spain.
Practice telling what 'would happen' in certain situations by using the
conditional tense in Spanish.
El paisaje de los moros en Andalucía
Identify characteristics of the daily life, culture, and history of
Andalusia, Spain.
Practice using the conditional tense in Spanish.
Escapemos a un paraiso en el Mediterráneo
Practice using the conditional tense to talk about what you would do
in specific situations.
Identify characteristics of the daily life, culture, and history of
Valencia, Spain.
Proyecto: Mi restaurante
Apply Spanish vocabulary pertaining to dining out.
Repaso
Review for Unit 8 test
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Unit 9: AMIGOS EN CUBA
Assignment
Objectives
Carlos y Sofía llegan a La Habana
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the history of Havana, Cuba.
Identify what people are wearing, using Spanish vocabulary dealing
with clothing.
¡A comer en Cuba!
Distinguish between reflexive and non-reflexive activities. Distinguish
between verbs used with reflexive and non-reflexive activities.
Identify elements of Cuban cuisine.
Understand that there is a food rationing system used in Cuba.
Unas aventuras cubanas
Identify details of the tourist activities in Havana, Cuba.
Identify clothing used for different climates.
Practice using reflexive verbs to tell what people do on a daily basis.
Proyecto: Una muñeca de papel
to practice using the vocabulary dealing with clothing in Spanish
to practice describing or giving information in Spanish through writing
¡Me duele la cabeza!
Apply vocabulary and phrases to identify parts of the body and pains
in Spanish.
Recognize Cuban culture dealing with the teaching of English to
medical students.
Recognize Cuban culture dealing with the city of Holguín and
explore the city of Holguin.
El ritmo de África y la melodía de Europa
Identify cultural characteristics of the provinces of Guantanamo and
Holgued;n in Cuba.
Apply words and phrases in Spanish to describe what people wear.
Describe characteristics of Cuban music.
Proyecto: Mi raro amigo
to practice using the vocabulary dealing with clothing in Spanish
to practice describing or giving information in Spanish through writing
Otra isla cubana
Identify cultural aspects of Cuba dealing with housing and the island
Classify clothing according to style and use.
Proyecto: Mi Álbum de recuerdos
Apply Spanish vocabulary dealing with clothing.
Repaso
Review for Unit 9 test
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Unit 10: AMIGOS EN LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA
Assignment
Objectives
Carlos y Sofía llegan a Santo Domingo
Identify in Spanish the traditional stores in Latin America.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the history of Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic.
Una aventura en Puerto Plata
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the daily life and the tourist
attractions in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Review the present-progressive tense.
Apply words and phrases in Spanish to demonstrate an
understanding of conversations about shopping.
Carlos y Sofía suben una montaña
Identify aspects of the culture and daily life in western Dominican
Republic.
Categorize actions as reflexive, passive reflexive or nonreflexive.
Sofía descubre larimar en Santiago
Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural elements of Santiago.
Identify items described by demonstrative adjectives.
Carlos y Sofía conocen las ballenas de la República
Dominicana
Identify places and activities common in the eastern region of the
Dominican Republic.
Demonstrate a general understanding of the importance of
adjectives when used with demonstrative adjectives and pronouns in
Spanish.
Carlos y Sofía están trabajando cuando
Analyze text in Spanish to determine the general meaning.
llega un desastre
Understand different aspects of culture in the Dominican Republic.
Demonstrate an understanding of references to points-in-time in
Spanish and how they reflect the verb tense used.
Proyecto: Mi álbum de recuerdos
Apply Spanish vocabulary dealing with traveling, shopping, and
describing memorable places and events.
Repaso
Review for Unit 10 Test
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Unit 11: AMIGOS EN PANAMÁ
Assignment
Objectives
Carlos y Sofía llegan a la capital de Panamá
Identify cultural information dealing with visiting Panama City.
Apply key 'prepositions of place' to describe where something is
located.
Know vocabulary dealing with popular modes of transportation.
Carlos y Sofía piden direcciones
Interpret directions using basic commands in Spanish.
Identify cultural information dealing with visiting Panama's indigenous
people and the parts of the country they inhabit.
Memorize key phrases to use when asking for directions.
Proyecto: A explorar la ciudad
Practice giving commands in Spanish.
Carlos y Sofía viajan por El Canal de Panamá
Demonstrate an understanding of when and how to use -ar preterit
verbs.
Correctly use vocabulary dealing with transportation.
Identify basic information about the history of the Panama Canal.
Identify basic information about the city of Colón.
Correctly conjugate -ar preterit verbs.
Carlos y Sofía recuerdan sus viajes
Recognize key phrases that identify periods of time in the past.
Demonstrate an understanding of when and how to use regular
preterit verbs.
Identify basic information about some of the tourist activities and
foods that Panama has to offer.
Carlos y Sofía recuerdan las aventuras de todo el año
Demonstrate an understanding of how to conjugate regular verbs in
the preterit tense.
Identify basic information about some of the indigenous history and
culture of Panama.
Demonstrate an understanding of when and how to use preterit tense
verbs.
Proyecto: La presentación de diapositivas de mis
recuerdos inolvidables
Apply the preterit tense and Spanish vocabulary dealing with travel
and talking about memorable places and events in the past.
Repaso
Review for Unit 11 test
Unit 12: REPASO Y EXAMEN SEMESTRAL
Assignment
Objectives
Repaso
Review and reinforce Spanish 1 concepts from Units 7-11 in
preparation for the semester exam.
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