Villa Maria Academy World Language Department Topics for Mastery for Placement to Level 2 Language

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1 Villa Maria Academy World Language Department Topics for Mastery for Placement to Level 2 Language French 1: Mastery Skills needed for Placement in French 2 A. Unit 1 Bonjour tout le monde! 1. Greetings; nationalities; introductions; asking someone s name; 2. Ça va? Asking how things are going and responding; saying good bye; 3. Locations; parents; extending, accepting, and refusing invitations; 4. pronunciation (French alphabet, French accents); recognizing/identifying cognates; social register in speaking and writing; B. Unit 2 Les passe temps 1. Pastimes; Olympic sports; weather; food; asking what someone likes to do; saying what one likes to do; saying what one does not like to do; 2. More pastimes; adverbs; asking how much someone likes to do something; saying how much one enjoys doing things; 3. Nouns sports, music, pastimes; numbers 0 20; stating preferences; asking what someone prefers; agreeing and disagreeing; 4. subject pronouns; present tense er verbs; stem changing verbs; gender of nouns; placement of adverbs; definite articles; negation; C. Unit 3 À l ecole 1. Classroom objects; numbers ; expressing needs; stating what something costs; 2. Classroom subjects; adjectives; time expressions; describing a class; asking for a description of someone; describing someone; 24 hour clock; classes and exams; the lycée and the bac; 3. Places in school; places in the city; asking where someone is going; asking when someone is going somewhere; establishing a place and time to meet; la cantine and school meals; 4. indefinite articles; plurals of articles and nouns; present tense of the irreg. verbs aller, avoir, and être; expressions with avoir (avoir besoin de); telling time; irregular plural forms of nouns and adjectives; agreement and position of regular adjectives; à + definite articles; forming questions with est ce qu;e D. Unit 4 Le weekend ensemble 1. Soccer; soccer clothes; the métro; giving a reason; setting a time and place to meet; suggesting a different time; soccer in France; soccer clubs; 2. Food and drink; numbers 100 1,000; understanding what the server will ask; ordering food; asking for the bill; cafés and bistrots; 3. Movie genres; early, on time, and late; making a prediction; responding to a prediction; French cinéma; 4. the near future (aller + infinitive); forming questions (est ce que; inversion; intonation); more expressions with avoir (avoir faim/soif); present tense of the irreg. verbs prendre and voir; interrogative adjectives (quel); E. Unit 5 Les gens que je connais 1. Family members; physical descriptions; numbers 1,000 1,000, Months of the year; birthdays; descriptions of character; asking someone s age; telling one s age; telling what gift one is giving;

2 3. French speaking African countries and nationalities; professions; finding out someone s profession; asking where someone comes from; telling where one comes from; 4. possessive adjectives; indefinite articles in negative sentences; present tense of regular verbs ending in ir ; more expressions with avoir (expressing age); present tense of the irregular verbs offrir and venir; de + definite articles; C est vs. Il/Elle est; F. Unit 6 La rue commerçante 1. Articles of clothing; colors; what to ask the salesperson; what the salesperson says; shopping online; 2. Stores and grocery items; quantities; sequencing my activities; superstore vs. small shop; 3. Fruits and vegetables; making a purchase at the market; responding to questions from the vendor; outdoor markets; 4. present tense of the verb acheter (stem changing verb); present tense of the irreg. verb vouloir; present tense of regular verbs ending in re ; demonstrative adjectives; expressions of quantity; the partitive article; G. Unit 7 À la maison 1. Stories in a building; rooms in a house; furniture in the kitchen and living room; giving a tour of a house or an apartment; asking where someone lives; agreeing and disagreeing; housing in France; bathrooms in France; 2. Meals; table setting; giving directions in the kitchen; 3. The bedroom and bathroom; computers and other technology; saying that one does not understand; talking about computers; technology and French youth; 4. ordinal numbers; comparative of adjectives; present tense of the irreg. verbs pouvoir, devoir, and mettre; H. Unit 8 À Paris 1. Weather; seasons; pets; extending, accepting, and refusing an invitation; 2. Places in the city; monuments in Paris; excusing oneself; describing actions in the past; sequencing past events; 3. Time expressions; expressing actions that took place in the past; sequencing past events; 4. present tense of the irreg. verb faire; expressions with avoir (avoir chaud/froid/envie de); passé composé with avoir and être ; irregular past participles ; position of adverbs in the passé composé ; TEXTBOOK : T es branché? EMC Publishing (2014)

3 Spanish 1: Mastery Skills needed for Placement in Spanish 2 A. Unit 1 Cómo te llamas? 1. Greetings; greet people and say good bye; ask for and give names; 2. Nationalities; ask or tell where someone is from; 3. Age; ask for and state age; 4. Time; ask for and state the time; 5. Asking how things are going; Spanish alphabet; (pronunciation and accent); puntuation marks in Spanish; numbers 0 30; the verbs ser and tener; definite articles; cognates; the use of formal and informal you; B. Unit 2 En mi colegio 1. Identify people; 2. Describe classroom items and clothing; 3. Discuss school schedules and daily activities; 4. Ask how someone feels and location; Subject pronouns and the verb ser; definite and indefinite articles with nouns; using adjectives to describe; present tense of the ar verbs; the verb estar; C. Unit 3 Vamos a la ciudad! 1. Talk about places in a city; 2. Make introductions and express courtesy; 3. Ask and answer questions; 4. Discuss how to go somewhere; 5. Say some things people do and where someone is going; 6. Understand what the server will ask; ordering food; asking for the bill; Making introductions using te, le, les; asking questions using interrogative words; the uses of the verb ir: saying where someone is going and talking about the future; present tense of the er verbs; D. Unit 4 Mi familia y mis amigos 1. Talk about family and relationships; 2. Seek and provide personal information; 3. Express possession; 4. Describe people and thing they do; 5. Express an opinion; likes and dislikes; adjectives; present tense of the ir verbs; describe people and things with estar; using the verb gustar to state likes and dislikes; the verb ser vs. estar; E. Unit 5 Una Semana Típica 1. Describe everyday activities; 2. Seek and provide personal information; what someone is going to do; where someone is coming from; 3. Write about everyday life; 4. Talk about dates and holidays; days of the week and months of the year; asking for and giving the date;

4 Saying what someone has; the use of the verb tener; the expression que +adjective/noun; direct object pronouns; the personal a; the verb venir; using the numbers from ,999; F. Unit 6 En Casa Identify vocabulary related to the house; Express obligations, wishes, and preferences; state an opinion; Talk about everyday activities; discuss food and table items; Describe a household; point out people and things; tell what someone says; Expressing obligation with the verbs tener and deber; stem changing verbs e ie; Demonstrative adjectives; the verb decir, expressing wishes with querer or gustaría; stem changing verbs: e i; G. Unit 7 El tiempo libre Talk about leisure time activities; discuss sports; Describe what is happening; say what someone can do; Identify and apply vocabulary related to seasons and weather; Discuss length of time and indicate order; Using ordinal numbers; Stem changing verbs o ue; u ue; expressions with hace; present progressive; using the present progressive with direct object pronouns; verbs that require special accentuation such as: esquiar, enviar, and continuar; present tense of dar and poner; describing people using dor, ista; H. Unit 8 Mis quehaceres Talk about household chores; Say what just happened; Ask for and offer help; Talk about the past; Identify and describe foods; Discuss food preparation; Make comparisons; Direct and indirect object pronouns; present tense of oir and traer; preterite tense of ar verbs; preterite tense of dar and ser; I. Unit 9 La ropa Describe clothing and discuss size and fit; Discuss prices and payment; Identify parts of the body; Express disagreement; Talk about the past;

5 Adjectives as nouns; talking about the past: preterite of er and ir verbs; preterite tense of ir and ser; affirmative and negative words, diminutives; preterite tense of leer, oir, ver, decir, hacer and tener; J. Unit 10 Un año más Discuss past actions and events; Talk about everyday activities; Express emotions and indicate wishes and preferences; Describe personal characteristics; Write about past actions; Talk about the future; Make polite requests; Application of present and preterite tense and vocabulary studied in previous chapters. Textbook: Aventura 1, 2 nd edition, EMC Publishing (2013) Latin 1 : Mastery Skills needed for Placement in Latin 2 I. Verbs - Mastery of indicative of all six tenses, active and passive voice, for all five conjugations - Synopsis of the above (12 pieces) - Imperative: singular and plural, all five conjugations II. Nouns - First, second, and third conjugations III. Adjectives - First, second, and third conjugations - Positive, comparative and superlative degree IV. Adverbs: their formation from adjectives - Introduction of comparative and superlative degree V. Case usage Nominative: subject, predicate nominative (subject complement) Genitive: of possession, partitive genitive Dative: indirect object Accusative: direct object, subject of infinitive, place to which, time of duration, object of certain prepositions Ablative: of means, of agent, of place where, of place from which, of accompaniment, of duration, ablative absolute VI. Translation: individual sentences and short sentences VII. Vocabulary from Latin for Americans, Units 1 9, Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2003.