World Language

Acceptance into a language course is based on placement testing.

 

This course is designed to introduce non‐native Spanishspeaking students to basic functional proficiency in Spanish with an emphasis on vocabulary development. Students will learn basic conversational topics, such as greetings and farewells, making descriptions of yourself and others, finding out information, talking about one’s family, ordering food, identifying personal belongings, identifying public buildings and places, making plans, making purchases, etc. The course enhances four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The emphasis is on student‐student and student‐teacher interactions to stimulate real‐world situations.

This intermediate course is designed to introduce students to more advanced grammar structures in Spanish with an emphasis on sentence structure and verb tenses. It continues to enhance and further develop the four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will be able to speak and write in the present tense, past tense, and future tense plus the use of high frequency irregular verbs. Students will be able to read long passages and write paragraphs and short essays. The course focuses on the communicative-based approach that emphasizes fluency. As a result, students will engage in oral skits that model common real-life situations.

This course introduces the students to basic vocabulary and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past. Pronunciation, grammar, and everyday vocabulary are stressed as indispensable tools for comprehension and expression. Through listening, speaking, reading and writing activities, students will become familiar with the vocabulary necessary to deal with everyday situations in French. Students will start to develop cultural awareness and the ability to recognize the products, practices and perspectives of the French culture.

In this course students will review and build on the vocabulary themes and language structures covered in French I. While learning new vocabulary, students will continue to explore the cultures of French speaking areas in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the Caribbean. Various listening, speaking, reading and writing activities will help students become fluent in authentic language use situations.

This course is for Spanish speakers who have a basic understanding of Spanish but are not necessarily wellversed in reading or writing the language. Students will work on basic grammar structures, vocabulary, writing and conversational skills and will explore the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in an effort to gain a functional knowledge of the target language and culture/s.

 

This course is an accelerated version of Spanish for Heritage Speakers I. Students will work on perfecting grammar structures, vocabulary, writing and conversational skills and will explore the cultures of the Spanish- speaking world in an effort to gain a functional knowledge of the target language and culture/s.

This course is for Spanish speakers who are able to speak, read and write Spanish at the basic to intermediate level. The focus is on intermediate grammar structures, vocabulary expansion and written compositions. Students will continue to work with literary texts and will continue to explore the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

 

This course is an accelerated version of Spanish for Heritage Speakers II. The focus will be on intermediate grammar structures, vocabulary expansion, and written compositions. Students will work with literary texts and will continue to explore the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

 

The three modes of communication (Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational) defined in the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century are foundational to the AP Spanish Language and Culture course. The AP course provides students with opportunities to demonstrate their proficiency in each of the three modes in the Intermediate to Pre-Advanced range as described in the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K–12 Learners. The AP Spanish Language and Culture course engages students in an exploration of culture in both contemporary and historical contexts.

 

AP Spanish Literature course is designed to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of a 3rd year college course. The course is designed to introduce students to the formal study of a representative body of Peninsular and Latin American literary texts. The expanded reading list of diverse literature written in Spanish helps students reflect on the many voices and cultures included in this rich body of literature. It will expose students to a variety of genres and types of discourse enabling students to trace the history of Spanish pose from Don Juan Manuel to modern times.

 

DP HL/SL Spanish B; two year program

This is a language acquisition course for students with some previous experience of learning the language. While studying the language, students also explore the culture(s) connected with it. Higher and standard levels are differentiated by the depth of syllabus coverage, the required study or literature at HL, and the level of difficulty and requirements of the assessment tasks and criteria. The course is organized into themes. Three core themes are required: communication and media, global issues, and social relationships. In addition, teachers select two more themes from five options provided. Finally, two works of literature are studied at HL only.

The language A: language and literature course introduces the critical study and interpretation of written and spoken texts from a wide range of literary and non literary genres in the Spanish Language. The formal analysis of texts is supplemented by awareness that meaning is not fixed but can change in respect to contexts of production and consumption. This course is available for study in 17 languages.The course is organized into four parts, each focussed on the study of either literary or non-literary texts. Together, the four parts of the course allow the student to explore the language A in question through its cultural development and use, its media forms and functions, and its literature. Students develop skills of literary and textual analysis, and also the ability to present their ideas effectively. A key aim is the development of critical literacy. Students study 6 works at higher level from a representative selection of genres, periods and places. This course will help meet the language requirement for the IB Bilingual Diploma.

The language ab initio course is a language acquisition course for students with little or no experience of the language. The course is organized into three themes: individual and society, leisure and work, and urban and rural environment. Each theme comprises a list of topics that provide students with opportunities to practice and explore the language and to develop intercultural understanding. Through the development of receptive, productive and interactive skills, students develop the ability to respond and interact appropriately in a defined range of everyday situations.