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Students should know different Arab Countries'locations and landmarks

District of Columbia state learning standards for world languages. Page 8 at the bottom of the chart shows expected proficiency outcomes in "traditional" programs beginning in High School.

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Ratings represent levels of expected performance for language learners who complete full-time intensive and/or immersion, proficiency-based language training under the supervision of an instructor and with 1-4 students per class.

The NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements are self-assessment checklists used by language learners to assess what they “can do” with language in the Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational modes of communication.

This book is full of games that you can use to get your students speaking in the target language. Whether you teach Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, ESL or anything else, these games will add spice to any World Language class.

Stimulating, engaging, and effective, the games and activites in this book offer your students alternatives to learning by rote or performing drills. This book makes it easy for you to develop their linguistic functions through active learning. The specific skills and vocabulary taught in each game or activity is highlighted, as are the easy-to-follow instructions, helpful charts, worksheets and other visuals.

Rhythms and Tones features 24 original, interactive songs and chants incorporating simple, every day language about real life topics of interest to young learners. The songs and chants are sequenced so that language scaffolds and builds on itself. Inventive rhythms emphasize the tonal quality of Chinese and natural Chinese speech patterns.

The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six “facets” of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.

With a focus on communicative language teaching as it reflects cognitive and second language acquisition theory, this classic in the field provides a wealth of strategies and activities ready to use in the K-8 foreign language classroom.

Voki is a teaching tool that allows students to create a customized online character and add their own voice recordings to it.

Socrative is a classroom management app for teacher, which allows them to assess student understanding and monitor activities in class.