Students learn a foreign language best when they are provided opportunities to use the foreign language to communicate in a wide range of activities. In Grades Five through Eight foreign language students:

- Engage in conversations, provide and  
  obtain information, express feelings and
  emotions, and exchange opinions

- Understand and interpret written and
  spoken language on a variety of topics

- Present information, concepts, and
  ideas to an audience of listeners or  
  readers on  a variety of topics

- Demonstrate an understanding of the
  relationship between practices (what to do
  when and where), products (art, work, cathedral,
  bread), and   perspectives (ideas, attitudes, values)
  of the foreign cultures studied.