Spanish III Course Content
Review of Spanish II (first week or two of school)
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Names
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Subject pronouns
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Verbs
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Adjectives
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II vocab
Lección Preliminar (Mid-September to Mid-October)
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Talk about yourself
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Talk about your friends
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Say what you know how to do
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Talk about places
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Describe your daily routine
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Make comparisons
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Verbs like gustar
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Present tense of regular verbs
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Present tense of irregular verbs
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Present tense of yo verbs
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Stem-changing verbs
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Decir, tener, and venir
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Saber or conocer
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Ser or estar
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Reflexive verbs
Day of Dead unit (end of October to early November)
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Review traditions
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Make skulls
Unidad 1 Lección 1 (November to early December)
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Camping
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Nature
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Preterite tense of regular verbs
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Irregular preterites
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Irregular present tense
Christmas Unit (December)
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Traditions
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Vocabulary
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Songs
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Slideshow
Unidad 1 Lección 2 (January)
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Family relationships
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At the beach
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Imperfect tense
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Preterite vs. imperfect
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Saber vs. conocer
Unidad 2 Lección 1 (Late January to Late February)
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Volunteer activities
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Volunteer projects
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Tú commands
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Other command forms
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Irregular preterite
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Camping and beach trips
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Ir a + infinitive
Unidad 2 Lección 2 (March)
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Requests
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Recommendations
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Media
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Pronouns with commands
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Impersonal expressions with infinitive
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Preterite vs. imperfect
Easter Unit (3-5 days when Easter falls)
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Vocab
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Traditions
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Movie
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Posters
Verb Unit (10 days early to mid-April)
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Present perfect
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Past perfect
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Future tense
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Conditional
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Present subjunctive
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Imperfect subjunctive
Food Unit (End of April to Mid-May)
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Foods
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Restaurant
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Utensils and place settings
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Review commands
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Recipes
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Cooking
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Mexican vs. Spanish dishes
Don Quijote Unit (Mid-May to early June)
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Background on novel and Cervantes
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Read student version of novel
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Present chapter to class
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Present play
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Watch movie
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Essays
End of Year (Late May to early June)
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Final slideshow/video
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Idioms
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Slang
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Gestures
The above is a general outline of what is accomplished in the Spanish III class. It is possible that we will complete more chapters listed above however. The students also do projects, study holidays, create crafts, make recipes, and participate in many other activities that may occur throughout the year. The cultural points are too numerous to mention but some examples in this level relate to art, cities and towns, daily life, environment, economy, education, food, geography, history and politics, holidays and celebrations, language, literature, monuments and museums, music and dance, and parks and palaces. In addition, students will teach once a month in the elementary, write journals, chat on Moodle, have tertulias, and complete other upper level activities as time allows.
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