World Language - Levels 3 and 4

World Language
Level 3/4

ESSENTIAL CONTENT/SKILLS
Listening/Comprehension
  1. Maintain and improve understanding in a normal conversation.
  1. Demonstrate understanding of the main idea in telephone calls, radio and TV broadcasts, oral reports, poems, and/or short stories.
  1. Demonstrate understanding of descriptive passages which compare or contrast or depict the relationship between elements.
  1. Demonstrate understanding of purpose or point of view.
  1. Recognize and comprehend subjunctives.
  1. Demonstrate understanding of material heard by predicting outcomes, drawing inferences, and making judgments.
  1. Recognize past, present, and future time when heard in simple and complex sentences and in longer passages.
  1. Recognize different dialects.
Speaking
  1. Communicate and narrate in past, present, and future tenses.
  1. Express and support personal point of view.
  1. Repeat and use subjunctive verbs in common expressions.
  1. Be able to classify, summarize, predict, judge, and infer.
  1. Converse on everyday topics using stress, rhythm, and intonation that is comprehensible to a fluent speaker.
  1. Express new information and knowledge.
  1. Interpret, analyze, and discuss authentic literature.
  1. Use appropriate verbs, tenses, and moods.
  1. Express more complex sentences and ideas.
  1. Circumlocute when at a loss for vocabulary.
Reading
  1. Identify verb tenses.
  1. Recognize and comprehend subjunctives.
  1. Identify the main idea and supporting details from authentic materials such as newspapers, magazine articles, and literary works.
  1. Make predictions and judgments and draw inferences.
  1. Identify the author’s point of view or purpose.
  1. Obtain new information and knowledge through written sources.
Writing
  1. Write questions and answers for advice.
  1. Compose a narrative about the present, past and future events.
  1. Compose original dialogues and skits.
  1. Summarize, interpret, and analyze authentic literature.
  1. Express and support a personal point of view.
  1. Compose cohesive paragraphs which describe, compare and contrast people, places, things, activities, situations, and events in detail.
  1. Use verb tenses including subjunctives.
  1. Transcribe sentences and short paragraphs.