Unit+Foundation

=**Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks:**=

__COMMUNICATION__  Communicate in Languages Other Than English  Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions  Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics  Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. __CULTURES__

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 Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied =====

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 Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied =====

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 Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures =====

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Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture =====

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 Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own =====

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 Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own. =====

=**Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes:** = ====Students will be able to reach the following objectives: ==== ==== Students will be able to identify a variety of weather conditions. ==== ==== Students will be present a weather report in target language on the real life base. ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Students will be able to compare and contrast the similarities and differences among cities in different countries.
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Students will be able to, as a tour guide, create a thoughtful travel plan for a tour to the country where the target language is speaking, including the ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> route, schedule, location, weather conditions, major viewpoints, and some appropriate suggestions.
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Students will be able to demonstrate current global environmental problems and challenges and explain how these problems influence our life and ====

=<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**Curriculum-Framing Questions:** =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">-How do the climate changes influence our life today?
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">-How and to what extent does the weather report help people in our everyday life ? ====