Basque Learning Plan Fall 2016
Week 3: Goal – Be able to say “I am,” “you are not,” etc. as well as greetings and farewells
Tasks – Survival Language, Greetings, Farewells, Introductions…. Be able to greet, exchange names with a person, be able to describe a person (including myself) saying 4 things that they are (height, ethnicity, size, intelligence), and 4 things that they are not, and be able to say goodbye
Methods – Aurrera 1 – 1.3, flashcards, memrise, learning partner?
Week 4: Goal – Be able to answer very basic questions like “are you a woman?” or “is your friend tall or short?”
Tasks – Be able to ask a person if they are a student and be able to answer if I am one in return. Be able to ask what 5 things are and answer. Be able to ask about people, like “who is Dr. Scinicariello?” and answer, “Dr. Scinicariello is a teacher” or say, “who am I?” and answer “I am Maddie and I am a student,” etc.
Methods – Aurrera 1.4 – 1.9, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 5: Goal – Learn the verb “egon” to be able to say verbs like “I am sleeping,” etc.
Tasks – Be able to begin a conversation, ask how a person is, say how I am, ask about another person, and then say how other (plural) people are. Also be able to say what I am currently doing like, “I am not at home,” or “I am sitting”
Methods – Aurrera 2.0 – 2.4, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 6: Goal – Be able to describe what I do, and what I’m studying, as well as say where things are and what they are doing
Tasks – Be able to say where I am, what I do, what I’m studying, and then describe what my learning partner is doing and where they are, like, “Dr. Scinicariello is tired, she is seated in the office,” etc.
Methods – Aurrera 2.5 – 2.10, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 7: Goal – Be able to ask about time and tell it, be able to say where my partner is from and our nationalities, as well as state someone else’s nationality
Tasks – Be able to ask what time it is in order to catch a train and then tell a person when they don’t know what time their train leaves, ask my partner where they are from, state my nationality and my grandmother’s nationality, and say what time it is in my grandmother’s country, all in one non-stop conversation
Methods – Aurrera 3.0 – 3.11, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 8: Goal – Be able to say where I and other people live, including plural, and ask where and with whom people live and where they do not live
Tasks – Be able to have a conversation for 3 minutes talking about where I live, where my partner lives, and where our friends live through making statements
Methods – Aurerra 4.0 – 4.14, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 9: Goal – Be able to use the words for “this” and “that” and “with” as well as count through higher numbers and therefore be able to label items, like “20 people,” etc.
Tasks – Be able to ask about and describe 12 objects around a room without stopping, and describe them using numbers (ex. “There are 5 pens on the desk”)
Methods – Aurerra 5.0 – 5.11, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 10: Goal – Learn how to describe or ask about where someone or something is going, be able to order food
Tasks – Be able to describe my trip to a restaurant by saying where I am going, and then “ordering” food for my friends who have not arrived yet and my language partner
Methods – Aurerra 6.0 – 6.10, Global Studio Basque Books, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 11: Goal – Be able to describe where things are coming from
Tasks – Be able to describe where I or a friend is coming from, like in the context of a flight or train trip, be able to describe where an item came from, like a type of food
Methods – Aurerra 7.0 – 7.12, Global Studio Basque Books, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 12: Goal – Be able to talk about what I have and ask people what they have, both in physical objects and abstract things, like a cold, etc.
Tasks – Be able to have a conversation talking about things I have, like if I were to go shopping and read off of a list of things I have at home and things I have put in my cart
Methods – Aurerra 8.0 – 8.8, Global Studio Basque Books, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 13: Goal – Be able to talk about the recent past
Tasks – Be able to have a conversation about what I or someone else was recently doing, and what I was recently not doing, like saying, “She got up at six,” or “we did not leave the house (yet)”
Methods – Aurerra 9.0 – 9.11, Global Studio Basque Books, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
Week 14: Goal – Finish up the fist semester by being able to describe things that belong to people
Tasks – Be able to describe a person’s dorm room by saying what belongs to one person and what belongs to another, like “the hairbrush is mine,” or, “the bathroom is ours,” etc. Also be able to describe these things, like “those peoples’ rooms are very dark,” etc.
Methods – Aurerra 10.0 – 10.12, Global Studio Basque Books, flashcards, memrise, learning partner
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