Focusing on the learning process and — not on rote memorization, Spanish concentrates on articulate speaking, active reading, and comprehensive listening, to help students adopt the language and begin to use it as their own. Through stories, narratives, music, you-are-there adventures, visual and audio activities, and other enjoyable and engaging aids, the course covers Spanish vocabulary and grammar, and improves fluency through listening to, and creating, stories.

Course Description
 
Course materials include a learner’s guide, six study units, seven audiotapes, a supplement (Letters to Ben), and a set of pictograph flash cards. There are 12 exams.

• Understand spoken and written Spanish, and speak with sufficient fluency to
  communicate basic needs and participate in simple conversations
• Learn sufficient grammar and vocabulary to acquire the special language needed for
  business or other purposes
• Appreciate the contributions of the Spanish language to the English language
• Recognize the words and elements common to both English and Spanish
• Develop an interest in the culture of local Spanish-speaking communities
• Identify the gender of Spanish nouns
• Use third person affirmative and negative verb forms
• Construct simple spoken and written sentences in Spanish, using both declarative
  and interrogative forms
• Form noun phrases which agree in gender and number
• Correctly pronounce the Spanish consonants
• Use object nouns and pronouns correctly in sentences
• Give the Spanish equivalent of any number from 1 through 9,999
• Create mini-story plots using active vocabulary
• Use the present tense of regular verbs and singular command forms correctly
• Recall and recite questions and answers, using flashcards
• Increase their active vocabulary
• Comprehend the meaning of the present, imperfect, and present perfect tenses
• Use new vocabulary to create mini-stories
• Appreciate the universal appeal of folk and fairy tales
• Comprehend the Spanish version of stories they have heard in English
• Understand more words and phrases in Spanish when reading or listening
• Respond with appropriate rejoinders to brief questions and comments in Spanish

Course Outline

Learner’s Guide

The General Idea of This Program; How to Use It; Study Suggestions; Tips and Pointers; How Much Spanish Do You Already Know?; Adventure Story; Structured Conversations; Multiple-Choice Frames; Mnemonics; Grammar; Stories and Lectures; Storytelling; Pictographs; Learning Ideas

Study Unit 1

Mission to Isla de Providencia; The Puzzle; Speed Learning; Hispanic Culture Overview; Getting Ready to Read Spanish; Points, Lines, and Figures; More on Numbers; Toward Fluency; Stringing Together Your Own Narratives; The Broken Window; Ditties; Thinking in Spanish; Chatter at a Royal Ball; Roman Alphabet; Observing How Spanish Works; Focus on the Language; Questions in Spanish

Study Unit 2

Points, Lines, and Figures; Speed Learning; A Mother Talks to Her Small Child; From Word to Discourse; The Key of the King’s Kingdom; Chatter at a Royal Ball; Focus on the Language; Oral Translations; Speak Spanish Before You Know It!; Generating Your Own Sentences; Creating Your Own Mini-Story Plots; Toward Fluency; More on the Alphabet; A Geography Lesson; Much Communication with Few Words; More on Hispanic Culture; Pictographic Representations; Observing Closely How Spanish Works; Mi Primera Visita a Mexico; The Keys of Rome; Spanish Ditties

Study Unit 3

Chatter at a Royal Ball; Focus on the Language; Wrap-up Activities; Creating More Mini-Story Plots; Focus on Action; More on Spanish Culture; A Mother Talks with Her Baby; Questions of a Child; Verb Conjugation; Dots, Lines, and Figures; Building Fluency; Features of Spanish Verb Structure; Familiar Words; Incident in a Park in Central America; Retelling in Your Own Words; A Geography Lesson; Poems; Ditties; Irregular Verbs; A Surprising Discovery; What a Beautiful Sight!; Questions & Answers

Study Unit 4

A Small Child Answers the Phone; Encounter at the University; The Farmer and the Turnip; Focus on the Language; More on Hispanic Culture; The Three Bears; A Geography Lesson; A Geometry Lesson; Questions from a Child; Focus on Scene; Focus on Action; The Pig at the Stile; Openers and Rejoinders; Little Red Riding Hood; A Spanish Lesson; Chatter at a Royal Ball; A Hungry Giant; Second Meeting at the University; The Skillful Calculator; Wrap-Up Activities; Sample Mini-Story Plot

Study Unit 5

Dream of a Little Girl; The Three Billy Goats; Vincent and Isabelle; More on Hispanic Culture; A Geography Lesson (A City Map); The Arab and His Camel; Chicken Little; A Spanish Lesson; The Spanish Endings; Aspects of Past Time; Spanish Verb Tenses; A Little Boy and a Flower; The Three Little Pigs; The Crocodile; The Little Red Hen; Mini-Dialogues; A Geometry Lesson; Unity; Openers and Rejoinders; Ditties; Poems

Study Unit 6

Openers and Rejoinders; The House of Chuchurumbel; A Geometry Lesson; Five Blind Men Describe an Elephant; The Shepherd Boy Who Cried Wolf!; Useful Words and Phrases; Mercury and the Woodcutters; Questions and Answers; Afanti and the Clown; Past Participle; Little Red Riding Hood; Needle Soup; Compound Tenses; Maliang and His Magic Brush; The Most Beautiful Thing in the World; More on Hispanic Culture

After registering for the Spanish course, all of your learning materials will be shipped directly to you. If you like, you can also go to our website and download some of your study materials to get a head start. Your learning materials will guide you through the course content, explaining concepts and operations through a series of lessons. After each lesson, you’ll take an exam which you can submit by phone or our website. As you pass each lesson, you’ll proceed to the next topic until you complete the course.

There are 12 exams that need to be passed to complete your course in Spanish and you’ll have up to 15 weeks to complete the course.
 
Support
If you should ever need help with your studies, you can e-mail or call our instructors who will gladly help you with any questions that you might have.

Study Time
Since there is no set class schedule, you study when and where it’s convenient for you. You can complete your course as quickly as you’d like.

Completion
When you have successfully completed your course, you will receive a letter of completion along with an official transcript listing your completed course(s) and grades. You can apply your course towards our Diploma Program or a diploma from your local High School (be sure to check with your school authorities regarding mandatory attendance policies and whether they agree that the Penn Foster High School Program is acceptable toward the completion of your high school education). 
 
Accreditation
Penn Foster High School is accredited by The Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools; has met the high standards of integrity and performance set by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), Washington D.C., and is licensed by the Pennsylvania State Board of Private Licensed Schools.

Whether you’re looking for accelerated studies or credit recovery, regionally and nationally accredited Penn Foster High School provides the courses you need to complete your High School Diploma.