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Curriculum at a Glance
World Language
Spanish 1b
Spanish 1b is a continuation of language learning from 7th grade focused on communicative language
acquisition through listening, reading, speaking, and writing in the target language. Students will
synthesize previously studied concepts to expand and reinforce real-world applications of language
study as well as explore various cultural traditions. Throughout the course, students will engage in
activities to study the community and members of the community, the geography and culture of the
Spanish-speaking world, and the enhanced opportunities for travel language study provides. These skills
are taught via scaffolding curriculum that capitalizes on sharpening previously studied concepts while
introducing new skills to expand current language capacities.
Unit Description
Content and/or Skills
Let’s Eat!
● Utilize vocabulary related to commenting on food and
talking about meals
● Engage in basic conversations take someone’s order and
offer help and give instructions
● Use the vocabulary to make polite requests
● Use the verbs ser, estar, pedir, servir, preferir, poder, and
probar
● Use direct objects and direct object pronouns
● Form affirmative informal commands
● Use affirmative informal commands with pronouns
Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
● Utilize vocabulary to talk about your daily routine and to
talk about how you feel
● Engage in basic conversations to talk about staying fit and
healthy and to give advice
● Form verbs with reflexive pronouns negative informal
commands
● Use infinitives with conjugated verbs and prepositions
● Use stem-changing verbs
● Use direct object and reflexive pronouns with informal
commands
We Are Going Shopping
● Utilize vocabulary to ask for and give an opinion and say
where you went and what you did
● Engage in basic conversations to talk offer and ask for help
in a store and to talk on the phone
● Use costar and numbers to one million
● Use demonstrative adjectives and make comparisons
● Form the verb quedar
● Form the preterite of -ar verbs
● Use the verb ir in the preterite
● Use -ar verbs with reflexive pronouns in the preterite
Let’s Celebrate!
● Utilize vocabulary ask about plans and about preparing for
a party
● Engage in basic conversations to ask about past holidays,
greet and introduce others and say goodbye
● Use the preterite and -er and -ir verbs
● Say what you plan to do using pensar with infinitives
● Use direct object pronouns
● Use conocer and personal a
● Form and use the present progressive tense
Let’s Travel!
● Utilize vocabulary to ask for and give information and to
talk about a trip
● Engage in basic conversations to remind and reassure
someone; to express hopes and wishes and to speak about
the past in the preterite
● Form and utilize the preterite of verbs ending in -car, -gar,
and -zar
● Use hacer in the preterite
● Use the informal commands of verbs with spelling changes
and irregular forms
● Correctly place direct object pronouns
● Use verbs followed by infinitives