• Seventh-Grade Spanish Learning Objectives
     
    Self
     
    The students will:
    • say what they just did
    • talk about sports
    • talk about parts of the body
    • make excuses
    • say what they did
    • talk about staying healthy
    • talk about a typical day
    • talk about what s/he is doing

    My Surroundings
     
    The students will:
    • describe a house and household items
    • indicate the order of things
    • describe people and locations
    • talk about chores and responsibilities
    • tell someone what to do
    • talk about indefinite or negative situations
    • talk on the phone
    • say where they went, how it was, and what they did
    • talk about their daily routine while on vacation
    • talk about buying souvenirs on vacation
    • talk about vacation activities
    • talk about sporting events and athletes
    • discuss ways to stay healthy

    The Larger Community
     
    The students will:
    • plan a party
    • talk about a series of events
    • extend invitations
    • develop an awareness and appreciation of global music

    Linguistic Structures
     
    The students will know:
    • whether to use ser or estar to express “to be”
    • preterite of regular verbs and common irregular verbs
    • ordinal numbers
    • affirmative tú commands
    • acabar de + infinitive
    • affirmative and negative words
    • ¡Qué + adjective!
    • pronouns after prepositions
    • the personal a
    • the verb doler
    • reflexive verbs
    • present progressive