Students recite a poem, chant, or sing a target culture song. Students role play social situations such as unexpected encounters, parties, and dramatic scenes. Students summarize, analyze, and report back to classmates the results of various surveys. Begin to use conversational past tense. Students place a cut-up story written in the conversational past in correct sequence.
Students listen to a conversation and indicate if events occurred in the past or the present.
Continue to improve comprehension of extended discourse produced by native speakers. Students record an interview with a native speaker guest and transcribe the answers. Students listen to a tape that accompanies their textbook and indicate comprehension on a rubric. Students listen to authentic target language music and fill out a cloze paragraph of the lyrics. Write and speak with increasing grammatical and structural accuracy.