Modern European Languages Level 3

Other Indiana World Languages sets

• Level 1: Classical-Modern Languages
• Level 1: Modern Languages
• Level 2
• East Asian Languages: Level 1
• East Asian Languages: Level 2
• East Asian Languages: Level 3
• East Asian Languages: Level 4

Comprehending Oral Language: Understand and respond to requests, commands, and directions of increasing variety and complexity. 3.2.1

Comprehending Oral Language: Demonstrate comprehension of both authentic and non-authentic passages of increasing length and complexity. 3.2.1

Comprehending Written Language: Demonstrate comprehension of longer, more complex passages in the target language by interpreting main ideas and supporting details from familiar text genres 3.2.2

Strategies for Comprehending Oral and Written Languages: Use cognates, familiar vocabulary, word families, or cultural context to interpret passages. 3.2.3

Strategies for Comprehending Oral and Written Languages:  Use strategies such as contextual guessing, identifying discourse structure, and transitional devices to interpret meaning and purpose. 3.2.3

Presenting Oral Language:  Present material, both rehearsed and impromptu, on a variety of topics. 3.3.1

Presenting Oral Language: Speak in more complex sentences to express a variety of emotions, opinions, or abstract ideas.   3.3.1

 Presenting Written Language: Write longer paragraphs to express a variety of emotions, opinions, or abstract ideas. 3.3.2

Strategies for Presenting Oral and Written Language: Use intonation and pronunciation comprehensible to instructor and classmates with increasing accuracy and fluency3.3.3

Strategies for Presenting Oral and Written Language: Use more complex grammar and syntax with increasing accuracy.3.3.3

Strategies for Presenting Oral and Written Language:Use transitional and cohesive devices. 3.3.3

Practices: Describe social and cultural practices in the target language3.4.1

Practices: Use situation-appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication.  3.4.1

Products: Describe, in the target language, products of the target cultures, such as fashion, literature, imported products, etc. 3.4.2

Perspectives: Describe, in the target language, influences on practices and products, such as concept of time, social etiquette, gender roles, ethnic groups, etc.3.4.3

Perspectives:  Examine culture through literary works from the target language and cultures. 3.4.3

Investigate and discuss objects and concepts from other content areas. Example: Famous works of art (Fine Arts), environmental issues (Science), etc. 3.5.1

Implement content area concepts and skills through relevant activities. Examples: Write a persuasive speech or essay (English/Language Arts), etc 3.5.2

Use digital media and culturally authentic resources to reinforce and expand vocabulary and improve receptive and productive skills. 3.6.1

Use digital media and culturally authentic resources to study target cultures. 3.6.2

Recognize and use cognates and word families shared between English and the target language to expand vocabulary and guess meaning. 3.7.1

Recognize and use level appropriate language structures. 3.7.2

Compare and use common idiomatic, colloquial, and proverbial expressions in the target language. 3.7.3

Compare and use authentic forms of address in familiar social situations, both formal and informal. 3.7.4

Compare the systems and social patterns of other cultures and the learner’s own culture. 3.7.5

 Discuss, in the target language, the different celebrations and holidays of a variety of other cultures and compare them to those of the learner’s culture. 3.7.6

Describe, in the target language, contributions from the target cultures.   3.7.7

Share experiences from the world language classroom within the school and/or community. 3.8.1

Investigate the influences of the target language and cultures on the learner’s own community. 3.8.2

Show evidence of becoming a life-long learner by using the target language and cultural knowledge for personal enrichment. 3.8.3