Topics:

Greetings and Introductions

Physical Descriptions and Personality Characteristics, Feelings, and Emotions

Family Members

Clothing and Colors

Topic: Greetings and Introductions

Communication

• Person-to-Person Communication
  
  • Use appropriate forms of address to peers and adults when making introductions.
    
  • Use appropriate gestures and expressions of greeting and leave-taking.
    
  • Ask and respond to simple questions about someone else's identity and well-being.
    
    
• Listening and Reading for Understanding
  
  • Differentiate between informal and formal exchanges.
    
  • Comprehend phrases related to a person's state of well-being.
    
    
• Oral and Written Presentation
  
  • Demonstrate attention to accuracy of register in introducing self and expressing greetings.
    
  • Present rehearsed and spontaneous greetings and introductions.
    

Cultures

• Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
  
  • Recognize and distinguish between various culturally-authentic gestures and levels of formality of greeting and leave-taking.
    
  • Demonstrate understanding of hand-shaking, body language, and greetings, including those used in telephone, computer, and letter-writing situations.
    

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

• Making Connections Through Language
  
  • Discuss the use of morning and evening greetings.
    
• Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
  
  • Contrast customs of greeting and leave-taking between the United States and Spanish-speaking countries.
    
  • Contrast the use of formal address in Spanish and English.
    
• Communication Across Communities
  
  • Recognize the importance of greetings in Spanish-speaking countries.
    

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Tú/usted
  
• Formal and informal expressions
  
  

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Topic: Physical Descriptions and Personality Characteristics, Feelings, and Emotions

Communication

• Person-to-Person Communication
  
  • Use a variety of adjectives to ask and answer questions about the physical appearance of people and objects.
    
  • Ask and answer questions about a description, mood, or emotional state.
    
• Listening and Reading for Understanding
  
  • Comprehend spoken and written descriptions of physical appearance, personality traits, and emotions.
    
• Oral and Written Presentation
  
  • Describe physical and personality attributes usng a variety of appropriate adjectives.
    
  • Present descriptions, both rehearsed and spontaneous, of people and/or objects.
    

Cultures

• Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
  
  • Discuss cultural generalizations and stereotyping based on physical appearance.
    
  • Discuss characteristics of well-known people from Spanish-speaking countries.
    

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

• Making Connections Through Language
  
  • Identify well-known Spanish-speaking people studied in other disciplines.
    
  • Identify well-known Hispanic Americans.
    
• Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
  
  • Identify adjectives that are cognates and those that are false cognates.
    
  • Compare adjective placement and agreement in English and Spanish.
    
  • Compare one verb for "to be" in English versus two verbs in Spanish.
    
• Communication Across Communities
  
  • Describe well-known people in Spanish-speaking countries.
    

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Descriptive adjectives
  
• Tener with eye and hair color
  
• Agreement and placement of adjectives
  
• Ser and estar
  
• Subject pronouns
  
• Question and answer formation
  
• Tener expressions
  

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Topic: Family Members

Communication

• Person-to-Person Communication
  
  • Ask and answer questions pertaining to family members and relationships, including pets.
    
• Listening and Reading for Understanding
  
  • Identify family members and relationships based on spoken and written descriptions.
    
• Oral and Written Presentation
  
  • Describe family relationships.
    
  • Describe family members and pets.
    

Cultures

• Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
  
  • Identify characteristics of the family unit in various Spanish-speaking cultures.
    
  • Explain the importance of the family in Spanish-speaking societies.
    

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

• Making Connections Through Language
  
  • Compare the role of the extended family in Spanish-speaking countries and in the U.S.
    
• Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
  
  • Compare and contrast families in the U.S. and in Spanish-speaking countries.
    
  • Contrast ways to express possession.
    
• Communication Across Communities
  
  • Use print and Internet resources to access information about families in Spanish-speaking countries.
    

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Pet vocabulary
  
• Possessive adjectives
  
• Possession with de
  
• Descriptive adjectives
  
• Present tense of ser and tener
  

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Topic: Clothing and Colors

Communication

• Person-to-Person Communication
  
  • Ask and respond to questions pertaining to clothing and colors.
    
  • Ask and answer questions to elicit a description of clothing and colors.
    
• Listening and Reading for Understanding
  
  • Identify clothing based on spoken and written descriptions.
    
• Oral and Written Presentation
  
  • Use descriptive adjectives and articles to describe clothing.
    

Cultures

• Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
  
  • Discuss standards and styles of dress in various Spanish-speaking cultures.
    
  • Discuss the influence of climate and geography on dress in Spanish-speaking countries.
    

Connections, Comparisons, and Communities

• Making Connections Through Language
  
  • Discuss the use of color (e.g., in clothing, art, and architecture).
    
• Cultural and Linguistic Comparisons
  
  • Compare standards and styles of dress in Spanish-speaking and American cultures.
    
  • Identify cognates and false cognates related to clothing and colors.
    
  • Discuss adjective placement and agreement.
    
  • Compare ways of expressing possession ('s in English versus de in Spanish).
    
• Communication Across Communities
  
  • Describe clothing available on the Internet and through catalogs and/or advertisements from Spanish-speaking countries.
    
  • Identify difference in sizes and appropriateness of clothing.
    

Related Vocabulary and Linguistic Elements

• Colors and other descriptive adjectives
  
• Adjective agreement and placement
  
• Llevar, ser, tener
  
• Use of possessive de
  

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