First Year > Spanlang 3 > Progress Card: Interpretive Objectives
Below is a list of goals for Spanish 3 student progress in interpretive language. Use this checklist as your "Progress Card" to track your development in Spanish. As you learn to do each item, note your confidence level in performing each task. You will want to practice and review these objectives repeatedly on your own, with your native-speaking conversation partner, and with your instructor.
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Language Learning Objectives:
Click on an objective for a list of key phrases to learn |
See text lessons |
Examples in context
(text, audio and video samples)
| Links to practice quizzes and activities |
Your confidence level:
1 (low) to
5 (high) |
| I can understand interactions involving... |
| service transactions (e.g.,
purchasing airline tickets,
searching for an
apartment) |
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videos: sample service encounters en español (Nicaragua) |
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requests for favors
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emotions
such as sympathy, admiration, anger or surprise
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12A, 15B, 17B, 18B
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video: expressing admiration and talking about emotions in the music of Juanes |
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complaints
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opinions
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16A, 17A
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advice or suggestions
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10A |
video: Nutrition advice (Spain) |
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doubt |
16A |
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| I can... |
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summarize key points and main ideas in 20-40 minute oral presentations on an
unfamiliar topic
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videos: TED en español
video: La Costa Brava (España) |
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take notes on 20-40 minute oral presentations
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videos: TED en español
videos: Mexican public television travel show Los 11 Más |
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| 14A |
video: El español en la Guinea Ecuatorial |
practice activity to accompany video on Spanish in Ecuatorial Guinea |
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| 14B |
podcasts: Hablar por hablar desde Colombia y Hablar por hablar desde España |
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| 16A |
video: interview with Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt |
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| podcast: a Mexican youth discovers their sexual identity |
practice quiz for podcast about a Mexican youth
key to practice quiz for podcast about a Mexican youth
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| 17B |
video: Astor Piazzolla |
practice quiz on Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla
key to practice quiz on Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla |
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| 18A |
video: interview with Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal |
practice quiz on interview with Rafael Nadal |
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restate the topics in a set of TV news clips
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television and radio resources in Spanish
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understand 3-page readings about the Spanish-speaking world or contemporary
issues
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Composición 2 |
leyendas mapuches
leyendas mayas
leyendas mexicanas |
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| 13B |
text and video: Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor, creator of color television
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practice reading on a competition for best new app in Spain
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| 16A |
Marcha Mundial por la Paz y la No Violencia
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practice reading on Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero
practice reading on Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt
practice reading on Casa de Paz, a safe house for migrants in Denver
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read Internet or newspaper articles on subjects that interest me
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online newspapers |
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compare the treatment of current events in the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking
worlds
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video: Undocumented Immigration in Spain (España)
video: Undocumented Immigration and Poltics in the U.S. (España) |
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