Students invite native speakers living in the community by telephone or in writing to speak to students at the school. Describe in oral or written form a sequence of events in present, past, and future time. Students write and read an announcement about an upcoming or past school event over the school's public address system. Describe people and objects and events in oral and written form, using adjectives appropriately. Students describe a new outfit bought for a special occasion.
Students write an entry in their diary about a social event.
Students construct a replica of a neighborhood location and present it to classmates. Continue to use the target language for a variety of extended spoken activities. Students ask for information about availability and cost of various modes of transportation to reach desired destinations. Continue to improve comprehension of extended discourse including discourse produced by native speakers. Students watch a video of a target language weather report and summarize the weather conditions in various regions of a target country.