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