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