1. Teacher(s): Time: The Course Organizer Student: Course Dates: This Course: Course Questions: is about Hermosilla Survival Spanish Mastering basic conversation & listening skills in Spanish for real-life situations. 1)What are the characteristics of a native speaker of Spanish and the Spanish conversation? 2)What’s the importance of survival conversation & listening skills in Spanish? 3)What are the most common situations in which you need “survival” Spanish? 4)How does knowing common words, phrases and expressions in Spanish help you with your “survival” skills? 5)How do you compose a basic oral message in Spanish? 6)How do you get your message across in few words? 7)What are the strategies for grasping the meaning of key words in an oral message? Course Standards Major items to be explored in this course: Common phrases and expressions in oral Spanish. Glossary of common words in Spanish. Frequent survival situations for a traveler to any country. Composition of short sentences and simple questions in Spanish. Listening strategies for surviving a conversation w/a native speaker of Spanish. Activities that will help us achieve the goals of this course: Role play &Sketches Conversation recording & analysis of conversations. Real life virtual situations. Skyping w/native speakers. Mnemonics for words, phrases and expressions. What will students accomplish at the end of the course? Students will… Be better prepared to spontaneously react to real- life situations in conversations. Develop skills for managing basic syntax of messages in the target language. Actively use strategies for grasping the key meaning of messages and for conveying effective short messages. Make effective use of oral messages tools for interacting w/ a native speaker in a real-life situation.

2. Survival Spanish Learning Rituals Community Principles Course Map This Course: includes Performance Options Student: Critical Concepts Learned in these Units  Question of the day.  Objectives of the day.  Warm-up, practice, reinforcement and final production.  Peer feedback.  metacognition.  Taking turns. o Partner work & group discussion. o Peer Feedback o Metacognition of processes for making and understanding a message. o Skype & Virtual worlds. o Recordings of real-life conversation and real-life situations. Extended time Modeling and repetition Clarification of directions “Script” for conversations.  The Spanish speaker & the Spanish oral message.  Situations for survival Spanish.  The composition of basic messages in Spanish.  The most frequent words, phrases and expressions used in survival Spanish.  The analysis of a basic oral message in Spanish. Situations for short Characteristics of a Conversations.Spanish speaker. Characteristics of Useful words, phrases and oral messages. Expressions. Strategies for composing Identifying key words to get the short sentences and questions.Details of a message Strategies for grasping theUsing key words to convey meaning of short messages. a message.