Ms. Elisa Garcia
Spanish I
This year students in Spanish 1 will be introduced to:
Para Empezar pages 1-23 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Spanish speaking countries and capitals
- Greetings and conversational phrases
- numbers (0-1000)
- Telling time
- Classroom commands
- Spanish alphabet
- Body parts
- Weather expressions
- Classroom supplies
- days of the week
- Months of the year and holidays
Chapter 1A pages 25-47 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Favorite activities (ar, er, ir verbs)
- Definition of an infinitive
- The phrase Me Gusta...
- Dances in Spanish speaking countries (flamenco, tango, merengue, salsa, and cumbia)
- Definition of a cognate
- How to answer a question using the word "No"
- How to express prefereces using the phrase Me gusta mas...
- How to express agreement or disagreement
Chapter 1B pages 49-71 in Realidades 1 textbook
- How to describe themselves and others
- Common adjectives
- Grammatical structre for adjective placement
- Use definite (el,la, los, las) and indefinite articles (un, una, unos, unas)
- Colors
- Clothing
- How to express what others like to do (le gusta and les gustan)
Chapter 2A pages 73-97 in Realidades 1 textbook
- How to discuss class schedules
- Ordinal numbers
- Teachers and school subjects
- Subject pronouns
- Conjugating "ar" ending verbs in the present tense
- Tongue twisters
2B pages 99-99-121 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Classroom objects
- Prepositions of location
- The verb estar: to be and ser: to be
- Rules for pluralizing nouns and adjectives
- School in spanish speaking countries
3A pages 123-145 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Food
- How much something costs
- Food that is eaten during breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Conjugating ER, and IR verbs
- How to express likes and dislikes in plural form (me gustan and me encantan)
- Commands in the singular
- Following a recipe in Spanish
- Describe food
- Table setting
- Dinner customs
- Phrases for eating in a restaurant
3B pages 147-169 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Talk about food and beverages for dinner
- Describe what people or things are like
- Discuss health and exercise choices
- Understand cultural perspectives on diet and health
- Food pyramid
- Activities to maintain health
- What time to eat
- Pluralizing adjectives
- The verb ser: to be
- How to shop at a market
- South America
Chapter 4A on pages 171-195 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Talk about locations in your community using prepositions
- Discuss leisure activities
- The irregular verb ir: to go
- To express where they are going using Ir +a+infinitve
- Talk about where you go and with whom
- Learn to ask and answer questions
- United States
Chapter 4B on pages 197-219 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Talk about activities outside of school (sports, clubs, etc.)
- Accept, extend and decline invitations
- Shoe and step changing verbs
- Tell when something will happen
- Telling time...at what time something begins and ends
- Cultural perspective on afterschool activities
Chapter 5A on pages 221-245 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Describe families
- Talk about celebrations (birthdays, graduation, weddings, etc.)
- The cultural significance of a Quinceneara
- Ask and tell ages
- Express possessions
- The verb tener: to have
- Possessive adjectives
- The use of two last names for people in Spanish speaking countries
- Papel picado
Chapter 5B on pages 247-269 in Realidades 1 textbook
- Discuss family celebrations
- Describe family members and friends using adjectives
- Commands (Uds. and Ud.)
- Order a meal in a restaurant
- Table settings
- Expressing extremely in Spanish using "isimo"
- Use of ser and estar
- Restaurant menus