Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions. Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language. Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are available only through the foreign language and its cultures. Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
The standards are organized into five goal areas, each of which includes two or three content standards that describe the knowledge and skills students should acquire by the end of their high school education. These progress indicators are to be used by teachers and curriculum developers to shape classroom practice. Each scenario lists the targeted standards, provides a short description of the activity and the classroom in which it was used, and includes a reflection on how the scenario addresses the standards. Most of the scenarios are based on real classroom activities and are intended to help teachers make the transition to standards-oriented instruction. Suggestions for modifying the scenarios for different classroom situations are also provided.