Spanish 3 Honors

Jefferson County Public Schools

Learner Profile

Having reached this level of proficiency, you are at a place where you feel confident to communicate about normal, everyday matters. You can describe people and places and provide personal information about yourself and others, family, home, daily activities, interests, and personal preferences. You can get into, through and out of normal daily situations that involve obtaining food, lodging, transportation, and also taking care of health issues. You can ask a variety of questions to obtain simple information and take care of your basic needs, like getting directions, prices, and services. So, at the end of this year. . . .

What can you say and write?

When you speak or write, you generally use more than one sentence. You often link two short sentences together using a connector (for example, and, but, or) and you even produce strings of sentences to communicate your thoughts. You are getting much better about using proper word order as you communicate basic ideas but find it more difficult as you try to express more complex thoughts. Much of what you say or write takes place in the present tense- and you are mostly accurate in this timeframe- but you do occasionally use past or future tense, although you make more errors in these two timeframes. Sometimes you cannot exactly think of the right word to use but you are now able to “talk around” the word and find another way of getting your point across.

What can you understand when you listen?

When you listen to the target language, you can generally follow what is being said for a longer amount of time, although you sometimes find that you didn’t quite understand the main idea. You do notice that you can more easily understand when the speaker uses past and future tense.

What can you understand when you read?

You can pretty much read simple passages with full understanding as long as the topic is something you know or are interested in. Your understanding gets a bit shaky, however, when you read material that it written in more complex language and/or is a topic about which you are less familiar. Several re- readings seem to increase your understanding of these passages.