Students communicate by speaking the target language for a variety of purposes and diverse audiences. By the end of French, German, or Spanish II, students will speak the target language clearly and accurately enough to be understood by a native speaker by speaking with ever decreasing English interference. They will also demonstrate mastery of rules of pronunciation when speaking and reading aloud. By the end of French, German, or Spanish II, students will participate in more complex verbal exchanges on an advanced level to express and defend opinions, and demonstrate the ability to obtain and convey information, concepts, and procedures. Students will use appropriate gestures and levels of formality.
Students comprehend the target language from a variety of reading materials.
By the end of French, German, or Spanish II, students will infer meaning of unfamiliar words and ideas from context, analyze the main point of an authentic reading selection, express and defend opinions of the reading selection, and identify the sequence of events, the speaker, point of view, and time frame. By the end of French, German, or Spanish II, students will extract and apply information from authentic written sources to accomplish a task, such as following a recipe or gathering data to make a presentation. Students communicate by writing the target language for a variety of purposes and diverse audiences. By the end of French, German, or Spanish II, students will write accurately enough to be understood by native readers about events in the time frames of past, present, and future. By the end of French, German, or Spanish II, students will plan, draft, revise, proofread, and edit written communications.