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. Students play a game using a verb wheel. Using interrogative structures, students write questions to interview a partner or to send to a penpal or keypal. Students compare the items in their lockers.