General ACTFL Can-Do Statements for Intermediate Low

• I can identify the main idea in short conversations.
• I can request and provide information in conversations on familiar topics by creating simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions.
• I can interact with others to meet my basic needs in familiar situations by creating simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions.
• I can express, ask about, and react with some details to preferences, feelings, or opinions on familiar topics, by creating simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions.

Reading/Writing

• I can write an email or letter to a friend describing my housing and asking appropriate questions about their own.
• I can write and understand email communications to rent an apartment or vacation home.
• I can write and read an inventory of furniture and indicate what I have and what I still need.
• I can understand and summarize simple statistics comparing home ownership in different countries.
• I can use a mapping app to figure out the distance to various locations in the neighborhood.

Speaking/Listening

• I can follow a simple description of a room and of where furniture is located or place.
• I can follow and participate in a simple discussion of living situations and living preferences. (I can interact to share ideas about where I would prefer to live and why.)
• I can follow simple directions of how to get somewhere in the neighborhood.
• I can follow simple explanations of the steps of a cleaning process.
• I can understand and describe different apartment/house layouts and answer/pose follow-up questions.

Intercultural Understanding

• I can identify some regional linguistic variations.
• I have a general understanding about how some cultural practices shape linguistic expression.

Bildgeschichte

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Work with Pictures

Apartment/Room Layouts

Students sketch the layout of their room or apartment. Collect the sketches and then use them as prompts. Students could describe one room, or have a collection of rooms and work in partners to describe one of the rooms while the other student figures out which one it is.

Slideshow

The following slideshow provides a visual overview of this Einheit. The photos are meant as prompts for speaking and writing activities or assessment.