SPA 101HN - Elementary Spanish I: Honors

1. Demonstrate Spanish speaking skills through introductions, discussions about family, and respond to questions or familiar topics with comprehensible grammar and pronunciation.
2. Use Spanish listening strategies to identify specific details, ask and respond to questions, and follow classroom instruction.
3. Use reading strategies to articulate main ideas, cognates, sequence of events, prefixes, and familiar words.
4. Demonstrate in Spanish the ability to fill out registration forms, ask and respond to questions, write a narrative, and/or spell numbers.
5. Demonstrate cultural awareness through speaking and/or writing to identify Spanish-speaking regions and countries in the world, use of tú and usted and/or explanation of cultural family differences.

1. Speaking
   1. Apply culturally appropriate formal and informal greetings and introductions
   2. Describe people and objects (distinguish between use of SER and ESTAR)
   3. Discuss daily or routine activities and schedules (using simple present and present progressive forms)
   4. State preferences
   5. Formulate simple invitations to a variety of activities
   6. Express future plans (IR + A + infinitive)
   7. Produce a short conversation with someone
   8. Discuss the date, time and weather
   9. Produce responses to questions of familiar topics
   10. Produce intelligible pronunciation of Spanish words
2. Listening
   1. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend the description of persons, places, or things
   2. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend the telling of time
   3. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend short descriptions of events
3. Reading
   1. Identify people and objects
   2. Identify main topic of a passage
   3. Predicting content
   4. Identify correct usage of articles and subject pronouns
4. Writing Skills
   1. Apply correct usage of basic orthography
   2. Describe the location of people and object
   3. Describe personal characteristics
   4. Sequence daily actions
   5. Compose a short narrative
   6. Formulate simple questions
   7. Provide personal information
   8. Apply basic usage of gender and number for nouns and adjectives
   9. Apply basic usage of subject pronouns
5. Cultural and Geographical Awareness
   1. Identify Spanish speaking regions throughout the world
   2. Locate Spanish speaking countries on a map
   3. Apply formal and informal forms in interactions
   4. Compare and contrast the cultural dynamics of family relations
   5. Apply culturally appropriate formal and informal greetings and introductions