Second Foreign Language (Arts-track elective) – Secondary Grade 2

Course highlights

• Name meals, food and drinks, shop and order politely, using partitive and contracted articles, manger / boire / prendre, the imperative, avoir faim / soif and que / quel
• Describe clothes, colours and a look, accept or refuse an invitation and talk about festivals, using quel(le)(s), porter / mettre / s'habiller / vouloir, au / en
• Talk about hobbies, sports, holidays and a daily routine, using present-tense verbs, possessives, frequency adverbs, connectors and aimer / préférer / il faut + infinitive
• Welcome a tourist, book a hotel room, describe a city and give directions, using the futur proche, place expressions and comparatives
• Describe the weather and the seasons and give advice to protect the planet, using il fait / il y a, season prepositions, devoir / falloir, adjectives and connectors
• Talk about digital devices, screen effects and safe Internet use and a future job, using pronominal verbs, avoir mal à, pouvoir / devoir, negation and grâce à / pour
• Talk about hobbies, seasons and friends, describe a person and say what someone can or cannot do (können, seine/ihre, Genitiv-s), suggest, accept or refuse an activity and give good wishes (separable verbs, place with accusative)
• Say what you want, shop for clothes and presents, ask for help politely (Sie), using the accusative (indefinite and negative article, personal pronouns, mein/dein/sein/ihr), welch- and dies-
• Describe animals, give a reason for an opinion, say where things are and give an address, using war/hatte, the dative (article, personal pronoun, place) and unser/euer
• Plan holidays and trips: ask and say where places are, travel by train, talk about the weather, introduce yourself and say what happened, using mit/zu + dative, ohne + accusative, man, wollen/müssen, verb-second word order and the Perfekt
• Describe a neighbourhood, a house and a room, give an address and a means of transport, using andare in/a/da, c'è / ci sono, expressions of place and in/con with transport
• Talk about free time, sport, family, holidays and the weekend and ask for or give a time, using possessive adjectives (also with family nouns), andare/venire/partire + preposition and a, alle, dalle … alle
• Shop for food, talk about meals and Italian/Egyptian dishes, order in a restaurant and say what you did, using piacere and vorrei, the past participle and the passato prossimo
• Describe a room, a home and a city, compare places and ask for and give directions to the metro, using gender and number, ser/estar/hay, interrogatives, para + infinitive, más/menos … que, ir a/en, salir/saber, ordinals and al
• Talk about daily routine, hobbies, weekend plans and the weather, using reflexive and diphthong verbs, gustar/encantar, preferir, frequency adverbs, ir a + infinitive, interrogatives and hacer/ser/estar/hay for weather
• Shop in a supermarket, describe a kitchen and a recipe, order in a restaurant and invite to a birthday party, using tener/traer, indirect and direct object pronouns, order connectors, o→ue / e→ie verbs, querer/pedir, cumplir and exclamations
• Introduce your family, nationality and plans, using 比 comparisons, 过 for experience, 吧/吗 questions, 想 / 要 and reduplicated verbs
• Talk about school subjects, teachers and future jobs, using 最, ……是……，不过……, pivotal sentences (请……来……), V + 一下, 还是 and ……，也……
• Say what you ate, where you went and how to get to a place, using 了 for completed actions, 在 + place before the verb and 有 for existence
• Talk about languages, where you live and food in Egypt and China, using 会, 住在 + 哪儿 and 都
• Talk about the weather, dates and birthdays and daily study habits, using 太……了, dates (年 月 日/号, 星期) and reduplicated measure words (天天, 个个)
• Describe animals, interests and festivals in China and Egypt, using AA的 adjectives, 给/对 + object, 对……感兴趣 and 快要……了
• Describe friends and what people are doing now and explain what makes a good friend, using the present continuous (affirmative, negative, questions)
• Name places in a town, ask for and give directions, compare places and write a simple email, using comparatives, superlatives and direction language
• Describe a daily technology routine and online safety rules, using the present simple, adverbs of frequency and and / but / because / so / then
• Talk about school subjects and a weekly timetable, say what you must, can or want to do, and describe a classmate, using mi piace / mi piacciono, dovere / potere / volere + infinitive and adjective agreement
• Invite, accept and refuse, give dates and talk about Italian and Egyptian festivals, and buy a present, using Ti va di…?, dates with il primo, prices and direct object pronouns lo / la / li / le
• Describe digital habits with frequency adverbs, give safe-Internet rules with the informal imperative (and non + infinitive), and tell what you did online with the passato prossimo (avere / essere)
• Describe people's appearance and character and present a best friend, using ser / tener / llevar, quantifiers, agreement, conocer and desde hace
• Name parts of the body, say what hurts, explain symptoms and give health advice, using doler, tener que, hay que and deber + infinitive
• Tell recent actions and experiences and write a postcard, using the pretérito perfecto (regular and irregular participles), ya / todavía no and ¿Alguna vez…? / nunca
• Talk about healthy food and habits, give advice and make suggestions, using countable / uncountable nouns, some / any, How much / How many, should and Let's / Why don't we / How about
• Give dates and describe a past celebration, and write an invitation, a reply and a thank-you note, using ordinals, in / on / at, the past simple and Would you like to…?
• Talk about jobs, wishes, plans and predictions and write about future goals, using want to / would like to, be going to and will

Course content

• 36units
• 117sessions
• 35quizzes

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