ILC High School Spanish IV - Full Year

In this course, learners continue their intermediate work in Spanish in four key areas of world language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing, preparing them for a wide range of basic interactions with people, places, and things in their new language environment. 

Unit 1 

• Students will add vocabulary in the area of food. They will work on food terms, nutrition terms, and skills and vocabulary around restaurants. 
• Students will work on grammar skills related to: preterite and imperfect tense in narrative sentences, preterite and imperfect meaning changes, direct and Indirect object pronouns used together and comparisons. 
• Students will work on the cultural aspects of food. 

Unit 2 

• Students will add vocabulary in the area of technology. 
• Students will work on grammar skills related to: future tense, verbs of change, present perfect tense and pluperfect tense. 
• Students will work on the cultural aspects of technology customs in different Spanish speaking countries. 

Unit 3 

• Students will add vocabulary in the area of society, societal issues and multiculturalism 
• Students will work on grammar skills related to: the subjective noun clauses, the subjective in adjective clauses, the subjective in adverbial clauses and conditional tense. 
• Students will work on the cultural aspects of Spanish in the United States 

Unit 4 

• Students will add vocabulary in the area of health, well being and the human body. 
• Students will work on grammar skills related to: subjective, exhortations (subjective), imperfect subjective, if-clauses, relative pronouns in complex sentences, compound tenses (with subjective) 
• Students will work on the cultural aspects of the happiness of Spanish speaking countries, transitions from country and city living and cultural reading. 

Unit 5 

• Students will add vocabulary in the area of living abroad, studying abroad and completing job applications and interviews. 
• Students will review: moods and tenses, comparatives in clauses (de vs. que), salir, ir and irse, indicative or subjective 
• Students will work on the cultural aspects of Spanish speaking countries in preparation for studying abroad.