Modern Languages Class VIII

BEGINNING FRENCH: For students who began in Class VII, this course develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing through class conversations, role-playing, reading texts and poetry, studying grammar, and writing narrative paragraphs.

FRENCH: For students who began in Class V, the course develops advanced grammar skills through class conversations, written compositions, the reading of a short novel, and the study of videos, poems, media, and songs.

MANDARIN: Continuing the development of skills through audio and video materials that present students with real-life situations and exercise their ability to listen and respond; further practice in Chinese character writing; the enrichment of vocabulary; exploration of Chinese culture.

SPANISH: Students continue developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing, acquiring vocabulary, and building knowledge of syntax. Special topics include furthering the study of past tenses in narrative and the introduction of the subjunctive. The course concludes with the reading of authentic reading material in Spanish.