• Country 1 - Guatemala: Repaso de las frases básicas

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to start to get back all the things we learned in 6th grade.  We'll focus on all the basics and you'll be surprised how quickly it comes back!

    Suggested time - 2 to 3 weeks

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    Country 2 - Nicaragua: La familia

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to learn about family and review how we describe things.  We'll review SER and TENER and the idea of masculine and feminine with adjectives and nouns.

    Suggested time - 1.5 to 2 weeks

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    Country 3 - Panamá: La ropa

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to clothing and accessories.  We will also use these unit as a way to review how to pluralize words and match descriptions single/plural/masculine/feminine.

    Suggested time - 1.5 to 2 weeks

    Notes -   Clothing Vocabulary

    Country 4 - Venezuela: El tiempo

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to learn about the weather.  Using our new clothing vocabulary, we'll talk about why we wear the clothes we do in certain types of weather and throughout the different seasons.

    Suggested time - 1.5 to 2 weeks

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    Country 5 - Perú: Los sentimientos

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to expand our vocabulary on stating how we feel.  We will learn a new verb ESTAR and learn about how to use SER and ESTAR in different situations.  

    Suggested time - 2.5 to 3 weeks

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    Country 6 - Argentina: Las actividades

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to learn all about things we do every day - verbs.  This is the most important unit of the year because every sentence has a verb in it, and how we treat verbs in Spanish is different than how we treat them in English.  After this unit, you're going to be feeling pretty awesome about how well you communicate!

    Suggested time - 2 to 3 weeks

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    Country 7 - España 7: Los trabajos

    Overview - The purpose of this country is to use our new verb vocabulary and learn about jobs and careers.  We'll learn about what different activities are required for different jobs, and grammatically we'll learn how to put two verbs together.  This will be a nice preview for 8th grade Spanish.

    Suggested time - 1.5 to 2 weeks