World Languages

This is an introduction to the Spanish language. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar adequate for expressing basic needs and handling social situations, while developing their abilities to listen, speak, read, and write in the target language. The content focuses on the students’ lives and experiences and includes an exposure to everyday customs and lifestyles. Students acquire some insight into how languages and cultures work by comparing the target language and culture(s) to their own.

Prerequisite: Spanish 1

This course is a continuation of Spanish 1. Students participate in simple conversational situations by combining and recombining learned elements of the language. They are able to satisfy basic survival needs and interact on issues of everyday life in the present time and past time. They compose sentences that narrate, describe, compare, and summarize familiar topics that are related to the target culture. Focus is placed on understanding the main ideas, developing a better understanding of the similarities and differences between cultures and languages, and examining the influence of the beliefs and values of the target culture(s).

Prerequisite: Spanish 1 > Spanish 2 or teacher recommendation

This course provides students additional opportunities to expand their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they access short literary texts, authentic materials, and media on generally familiar topics. Students satisfy limited communication and social interaction demands, they initiate and maintain face to face communication. They identify main ideas and significant details in discussions, presentations, and written texts within a cultural context, read and interpret authentic materials, narrate and describe in sentences, groups of related sentences, and short cohesive passages in present, past, and future time and compose messages, announcements, personal notes, and advertisements. They continue to refine their knowledge and understanding of the target language and culture and their own by examining the interrelationship of other cultures to their own.

Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation

This accelerated course is designed for students who have successfully completed the Spanish 2 course and demonstrated the ability to continue their study of the language at an honors level. Students will learn and practice with more sophisticated vocabulary and syntax which will lead to greater proficiency. Students will continue to study the cultural aspects of the French-speaking world. Students will refine their skills in grammar and read a variety of modern popular texts in different formats. Students will engage in a variety of activities through sequential thematic units and will complete performance-based assessments.

This is an introduction to the French language. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar adequate for expressing basic needs and handling social situations, while developing their abilities to listen, speak, read, and write in the target language. The content focuses on the students’ lives and experiences and includes an exposure to everyday customs and lifestyles. Students acquire some insight into how languages and cultures work by comparing the target language and culture(s) to their own.

Prerequisite: French 1

This course is a continuation of French 1. Students participate in simple conversational situations by combining and recombining learned elements of the language. They are able to satisfy basic survival needs and interact on issues of everyday life in the present time and past time. They compose sentences that narrate, describe, compare, and summarize familiar topics that are related to the target culture. Focus is placed on understanding the main ideas, developing a better understanding of the similarities and differences between cultures and languages, and examining the influence of the beliefs and values of the target culture(s).

Prerequisite: French 1 > French 2

*Not offered at Blythewood High School

This course provides students additional opportunities to expand their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as they access short literary texts, authentic materials and media on generally familiar topics. Students satisfy limited communication and social interaction demands, they initiate and maintain face to face communication. They identify main idea(s) and significant details in discussions, presentations, and written texts within a cultural context, read and interpret authentic materials, narrate and describe in sentences, groups of related sentences, and short cohesive passages in present, past, and future time and compose messages, announcements, personal notes, and advertisements. They continue to refine their knowledge and understanding of the target language and culture(s) and their own by examining the interrelationship of other cultures to their own.

Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation

*Not offered at Richland Northeast

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed the French 2 course and demonstrated the ability to continue their study of the language at an honors level. Students will learn and practice with more sophisticated vocabulary and syntax which will lead to greater proficiency. Students will continue to study the cultural aspects of the French-speaking world. Students will refine their skills in grammar and read a variety of modern popular texts in different formats. Students will engage in a variety of activities through sequential thematic units and will complete performance-based assessments.