Montgomery County Public Schools
Spanish 2B
Final Exam Format
June 2014
Oral Communication (1 item/ 20 points)
• Students will speak for two minutes in response to a prompt based on topics studied during the semester.
• This portion of the final exam is administered during class, not during the two hour block of time allotted to the exams.
Listening (30 items/ 15 points)
• Students will listen to their teacher read short statements related to topics studied during the semester.
• They will then answer selected response questions in Spanish.
Reading (32 items/ 16 points)
• Students will read passages related to topics studied during the semester.
• They will then answer selected response questions in Spanish.
Grammar (18 items/ 9 points)
• Students will select the best completion for sentences.
• This section contains grammatical structures studied during the semester.
Writing (2 items/ 20 points)
• Students will respond to two different writing prompts, each worth 10 points, based on topics studied during the semester.
Culture (2 items/ 10 points)
• Students will write, in English, about two cultural topics studied during the semester.
Spanish 2B…June 2014
Spanish 2B
6. Cuando éramos niños / When We Were Children
Students will be able to:
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Communicate about what they did when they were children
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Communicate about what they were like as children
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Communicate about past family celebrations and holidays
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Identify some Spanish-speaking people
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Identify children’s stories, fables, or songs from Spanish-speaking countries and compare
them with those from the U.S.
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Identify and describe family celebrations and holidays in Spanish-speaking countries and
compare them with those in the U.S.
Students will learn and apply:
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Present tense of ir
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Question words
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Near future (ir a + infinitive)
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Present tense of jugar
7. Las emergencias / Emergencies
Students will be able to:
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Communicate about disasters, rescues, and emergencies (past and present)
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Communicate about accidents, injuries, and medical treatments (past and present)
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Identify some Spanish-speaking countries
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Identify some natural disasters that occur in Spanish-speaking countries and compare
them with those in the U.S.
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Identify emergency medical and health services in Spanish-speaking countries and
compare them to those in the U.S.
Students will learn and apply:
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Present tense of tener
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Expressions with tener (años, hambre, sed, calor, frío, sueño)
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Possessive adjectives
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Present tense of venir
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Uses of ser and estar
8. ¡A cocinar! / Let’s Cook
Students will be able to:
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Communicate about foods
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Communicate about cooking and recipes
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Identify some Spanish-speaking countries
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Identify and describe dishes and foods from Spanish-speaking countries and compare
them to those in the U.S.
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Describe outdoor food vendors in Spanish-speaking countries and compare them to those
in the U.S.
Students will learn and apply:
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Present tense of stem-changing verbs: poder, dormir
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Comparison with regular and irregular adjectives (mejor, peor, mayor, menor)
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Superlative construction with regular and irregular adjectives (el mejor, el peor)
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Affirmative tú commands
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Present progressive forms of -ar, -er,-ir verbs
9. De viaje / Travel
Students will be able to:
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Communicate about travel plans and past travel
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Communicate about means of transportation and accommodations
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Identify some Spanish-speaking countries
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Identify and describe travel destinations in Spanish-speaking countries and compare them
to those in the U.S.
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Identify and describe customs related to traveling in Spanish-speaking countries and
compare them to those in the U.S.
Students will learn and apply:
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Stem-changing verbs: pensar, querer, preferir
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Demonstrative adjectives
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Direct object pronouns
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Numbers 200-1000
Spanish 2B…June 2014