Spanish 11S: Spanish Level 1, First Semester     Course written and designed by Stephen J. Sobiech Bloomington High School South  

Introduction Welcome to Spanish 11S: Spanish Level 1, First Semester. Why should you learn to speak Spanish? Well, why should you speak English? Chinese? Korean? Russian? Hungarian? There are lots of reasons. And all of them are up to you. It could be to talk to people in a Spanish-speaking country that you visit, work in, or live in. It could be to talk to your relatives that speak Spanish, or your friends, or your friends’ relatives, or with people that you don’t even know because they only speak Spanish. It could be for a job, maybe in the field of medicine, maybe on the Internet, maybe at a restaurant, maybe at school, or at a party. Maybe you want to learn the migratory habits of llamas in Perú, and you have to read scientific articles in Spanish. Maybe you want to watch stars in an observatory in Chile. Maybe you’re interested in hairless dogs in México. Maybe you just want to speak Spanish better than your brother, who really can’t speak it very well, but likes to show off. Maybe your next best-selling novel will only be published in Spanish, and you need to learn it before you start writing. You may not find too many Spanish speakers if you live in China, but for those of us that live in the USA, Spanish is all around us, and it’s spoken in many countries that aren’t too far away from us. Speaking another language will always enrich your life and others’ lives. Languages are for finding out about other people, and letting them learn about you, and you can use that in as many ways as you like. Why learn Spanish? You can use Spanish at home, work, play, travel, business, and maybe even for your research paper on hairless dogs in México.

Course Objectives In this course you’ll start speaking, reading and writing Spanish. You’ll learn basic phrases that you can immediately begin using to communicate in Spanish. You will learn how to • • •

greet people, introduce yourself, say where you are from, and say goodbye say the ABC’s and the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000 exchange phone numbers with people

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say the days of the week tell time describe important dates talk about the weather talk about meals and food say what you like to eat and drink order food in a restaurant describe your daily schedule and classes at school discuss after-school activities say what you like (and don’t like) to do describe yourself, your family, and other people ask questions and express your feelings talk about clothes, shopping, places, events, and getting around town

Required Materials and Technology •

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¡Avancemos! Level 1 (Uno) eEdition DVD-ROM or the ¡Avancemos! Level 1 (Uno) textbook. Choose either the printed version of the textbook or the DVDROM electronic edition (eEdition) of the textbook. (Note: Purchase of a printed textbook also gives you access to the online interactive textbook.) Ability to download and listen to audio files (MP3, iPod, or computer with speakers or headphones) Internet access to use www.ClassZone.com Adobe Reader to download PDFs (free download at adobe.com) Adobe Flash Player to view animations (free download at adobe.com) QuickTime to view videos (free download at www.apple.com/quicktime/)

To Install the ¡Avancemos! Level 1 DVD-ROM 1. Follow the instructions provided with the DVD-ROM to start it. 2. Install the Flash plug-in to view the videos, if it’s not already on your computer. Download the free Adobe Flash Player at www.adobe.com. 3. Make sure you have an Internet connection. Note: The DVD-ROM may automatically bring up Internet Explorer or some other browser, but you will still need to use Mozilla Firefox to access Dragon. 4. At the login screen, create an account. Choose a username and password. 5. Choose a file name and location if you’d like to make notes in or highlight the DVD-ROM textbook. Example: In My Documents, create a folder called “Spanish 11S” and a file called “Textbook Notes.”

To Access Audios, Videos, Animations, and Online Help If you have the DVD-ROM textbook: Click the video, audio, and animation icons on the pages of the textbook. The audio will play automatically. You may need to download the .mov file and find a program view it, such as QuickTime. The animation icon takes you to ClassZone.com. If you have a printed textbook: Go to www.ClassZone.com. At the ClassZone Book Finder page: 1. Select World Languages, High School. 2. Choose Indiana. 3. Click Go. The next time you visit ClassZone.com, the correct ¡Avancemos! book will be available through a shortcut. View the Online Textbook at this site to access the videos. The audio files can be downloaded under the Audio tab. Suggestions for Using ClassZone.com   • Explore all the features of ClassZone.com. It’s a pretty cool site, for a textbook. • Check out @Home Tutor for games and practice. Can you move up the levels of practice, from beginner to challenge? Try the asteroid “Collision Course” games, the Word Factory games, or the crossword puzzles. • Use the online flashcards to improve your Spanish vocabulary. (But you should also make your own flashcards that you can carry around with you. You can never have too many flashcards!) • Take the self-test quizzes to practice for the midterm and final exams. • Want to know more about culture? Watch the videos at Cultural interactiva. • How fast can you conjugate a verb correctly? Use ¡Conjuguemos! to find out.

How to Complete the Lessons For each lesson in this learning guide: 1. Read the lesson’s objectives. They tell you what you’ll learn in the lesson. 2. Note the page numbers for the reading assignment. They tell you which pages will be covered in the lesson. You are responsible for all the material in these pages. 3. Do the activities and exercises in the order in which they are presented in Study Session 1.

4. Do the same for Study Session 2, 3, and so on. (Usually there are six study sessions in a lesson.) 5. At the end of the lesson, you’ll find a written assignment and a speaking assignment. Follow the instructions to submit these assignments.

Completing Speaking Assignments To complete your speaking assignments, you will first need several pieces of information: your Dragon user ID number, your course section number, and the lesson number for the assignment you are recording. Both your Dragon user ID and your course section numbers can be found online in Dragon. Your Dragon user ID is on the “My Info” page, and your course section number is on the “My Courses” page in the “Current Courses” box. The lesson number, of course, corresponds with whichever lesson you are working on at the time (e.g., lesson 2). Once you have gathered this information, you can call the Unified Messaging System (UMS) directly at (812) 855-8176, or call our toll-free number, 1-800-334-1011, and ask to be connected to the UMS. The UMS is an automated messaging system that will guide you through recording your assignment. You will be prompted to enter your Dragon user ID number, your course section number, and the lesson assignment number. Now you will record your answers to the speaking assignment. When you are finished, the UMS will give you an opportunity to listen to your recording and either rerecord or send your assignment by pressing the # key. If you have any questions or concerns about the UMS and your speaking assignments, please call 1-800-334-1011.

Some Important Words of Advice It’s very important that you do all activities and exercises. A very common mistake is to skip the lesson, and all, or part of the exercises and activities, and go directly to the assignments to be turned in for a grade. Assignments done this way (without sufficiently completing lesson exercises and activities) are usually returned to the student as incomplete, returned needing parts re-done, or returned with very poor grades. There is a reason for doing all of the exercises and activities in the lesson before attempting to do the assignments to be graded. These exercises and activities are how the material is learned, how you will learn Spanish. There is no way around it, if you want to learn Spanish. You need lots of different kinds of practice with a language to learn it. You can’t cram a language; it takes time and practice.

Fortunately, this course has a wide variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises to give you the best possible chance of learning Spanish. The video and audio portions are very important in making this a real-life language for you to use, experience, and grow with. Language is communication, and communication requires time, practice, and effective strategies to learn how to do it. This course has very effective strategies for learning Spanish, and you will learn a great deal of Spanish from this course, but only if you do all of the exercises, activities, and follow the suggestions. If you skip the exercises and activities, and attempt to turn in the assignments without practice, you will do very poorly and possibly fail the course

Grading Your lesson grades (i.e., your grades on the written and speaking assignments for lessons 1–5 and) are worth 50 percent of your final course grade. Your exam grades are worth the other 50 percent. Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5

107 total points 74 total points 88 total points 111 total points 100 total points

Lesson 6

Midterm Exam (85 points)

Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Lesson 11

98 points 86 total points 90 total points 94 total points 98 total points

Lesson 12

Final Exam (85 points)

Written and Speaking Assignments Midterm Exam Final Exam

946 points total 85 points 85 points

To calculate your final course grade, I will take the total lesson points divided by 10 lessons, times .5, plus the total exam points divided by 2 exams, times .5 equals the course grade. Grades will be determined using the following scale:

Percent

Letter Grade

100–97 94–96 90–93 87–89 84–86 80–83 77–79 74–76 70–73 67–69 64–66 60–63 59 and below

A+ A A– B+ B B– C+ C C– D+ D D– F

Independent Study Program Policy: The average of your exam grades must be a D– or better for you to pass the course. Even if your lesson grades are excellent, you will not pass the course unless you fulfill this requirement.

Course Outline   Introduction

Lesson 1: Hola, ¿qué tal? Lesson 2: Hola, ¿qué tal? Part 2 Lesson 3: ¿Qué te gusta hacer? Lesson 4: Mis amigos y yo Lesson 5: Las clases y el horario Lesson 6: En la escuela Lesson 7: Midterm Exam Lesson 8: Mi comida favorita Lesson 9: En mi familia Lesson 10: En el centro Lesson 11: ¿Qué hacemos esta noche? Lesson 12: Final Exam Appendix: Answers to Practice Exercises