• Language Sequence -- GES
• French 1, Italian 1, Spanish 1 -- GES
• French 2, Italian 2, Spanish 2 -- GES
• French 2A, Italian 2A, Spanish 2A -- GES
• French 3, Italian 3, Spanish 3 -- GES
• French 3A, Italian 3A, Spanish 3A -- GES
• French 4A, Italian 4A, Spanish 4A -- GES
• Spanish AP and Italian 5A -- GES

In an increasingly interdependent world, the ability to communicate in languages other than English is an integral part of all students' educational experience.

The primary aims of Word Languages instruction are to develop functional communication skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the target language, to broaden students' understanding and appreciation of different cultures, and to provide students with additional skills which will be useful in career selection.

Students' foreign language proficiencies will be measured through mandated Checkpoints of the NYS Standards.  Students in the regular Regents track will complete Checkpoint A in two years of study, and Checkpoint B after four years of study.

Students who are designated as being accelerated will complete Checkpoint A after one year of study and Checkpoint B after three years of foreign language study.  Students will take the Comprehensive Regents Examination at the end of Checkpoint B.

Students pursuing the Advanced Regents Diploma may elect the 5 unit sequence in occupational (career and technical education, art or music in lieu of the 3 unit sequence plus the NYS Comprehensive Regents exam in a language other than English (LOTE), but these students are still required to fulfill 1 (one) unit of high school foreign language credit for graduation.

A District Final Examination will be administered for Language 1, Language 2, and Language 2A courses.

The second year of Checkpoint A of the NYS Standards will continue to emphasize the communicative language proficiencies of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in contextual settings.  Cultural concepts of the target language studied will be integrated into all communicative skills.

Prerequisite: Language Junior High

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The objectives for these courses are to increase speaking, listening and reading comprehension skills, and correctness f written expression in the target language.  Students will be able to understand and talk about informational bulletins, interact with providers of common public services, elicit facts, feelings and attitudes in correspondence from peers and adults.  They will also be able to demonstrate the conventions of formal and informal written expression.  Students will complete the first half of Checkpoint B of the NYS standards.

Prerequisite: Language 1

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The objectives for these courses are to increase receptive skills oral proficiency, reading comprehension, and correctness of written expression in the target language.  Students will be able to understand and talk about informational bulletins, interact with providers of public and private services, understand descriptive and narrative authentic materials within topical contexts, compose unified and organized texts with topical vocabulary and idiomatic expressions on an advanced level consistent with the goals and proficiencies for the first half of Checkpoint B of the NYS Standards.

Prerequisite: Language 1A

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Students will demonstrate communicative proficiencies in speaking, listening, reading, and writing as well as cultural concepts of the target language studied.  The course content includes extensive paired speaking practice, a comprehensive review of salient grammatical structures and tenses, as well as informal and formal letter writing.  Students will complete the language proficiencies for the second half of Checkpoint B of the New York State Standards.  The NYS Comprehensive Regents Examination will be administered to all students enrolled in these courses.

Prerequisite: Language 2

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Students will demonstrate communicative proficiencies in oral communication, listening and reading comprehension skills, formal and informal writing, and cultural concepts of the target language studied.  Students will be able to understand and identify factual information, deduce inferential information in non-technical writing, and be able to express complex ideas sequentially, incorporating basic idiomatic structures into formal and informal compositions.  The course content will also include extensive paired speaking practice and a comprehensive review of salient grammatical structures and tenses.  Students will complete the language proficiencies for the second half of Checkpoint B of the New York State Standards.  The NYS Comprehensive Regents Examination will be administered to all students enrolled in these course.

Prerequisite: Language 2A

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Students will demonstrate the ability to converse on an advanced level in the target language commensurate with their experience, read most and non-technical contemporary authentic materials, and incorporate in their written expression idiomatic structures which reflect control of the syntax and morphology of the target language.  Students will also demonstrate the ability to discuss and summarize orally and in written plays, films, short stories and topics of cultural interest.  The course content will incorporate Checkpoint C proficiencies from the NYS Standards and will prepare students for the Advanced Placement Exams on the next level of instruction.

Students enrolled in Spanish 4A may opt to register with Adelphi University for a course which carries three college credits per semester.  The course content may vary from semester to semester, but normally includes intermediate conversation, composition, analysis of contemporary literature, poetry, and cinema arts of the target culture studied.  Students enrolled in Italian 4A may opt to register with St. John's University for a course which carries three college credits per semester.  

Please note:  Credits obtained from either Adelphi University or St. John's University may be transferred to other colleges and universities. 

Students may also opt to register for the SUNY Albany program in Italian.  This one-year course carries four credit and is offered only at Floral Park Memorial High School.

Prerequisite: Language 3 or Language 3A or Chairperson's approval

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• The 5A/AP Language courses emphasize the use of the target language for active communication and have the objective of developing the following skills:
  1. Using vocabulary, grammar, and syntax with a high degree of proficiency.
  2. Understanding the spoken target language in both formal and informal conversational situations.
  3. Reading newspaper and magazine articles, contemporary fiction, and non-technical writings without the use of a dictionary.
  4. Expressing ideas accurately, and fluently both orally and in writing.
  5. Extensive training in the organization and writing of compositions.

Course content will reflect intellectual interests shared by the students and instructor (the arts, current events, literature, sports, etc.).  Instructional materials will include recordings, films, newspapers, and magazines.  Students will be encouraged to take the Advanced Placement examination.

• The AP Literature course emphasizes the use of the target language for oral and written communication with the objective of developing the following skills:
  1. Critical thinking in oral and written expression.
  2. Analysis of contemporary and classical works of literature in the target language.
  3. Using vocabulary, grammar, and syntax with a high degree of oral and written proficiency.
  4. Extensive training in writing interpretations of literary works discussed in class and assigned as outside reading.

Course content will reflect classical and contemporary works recommended by the AP Exam Committee.  Course content will reflect the intellectual interests of the students, wherever possible.

The course content in Spanish 5AP and Italian 5A may vary from semester to semester, but usually includes intermediate to advanced levels of conversation, composition, analysis of contemporary literature, poetry, and cinema arts of the target culture studied.

Students of Italian 5A may opt to register concurrently for the college credit course Italian Cinema: From Neo-Realism to the Present (Italian 3260) with St. John's University for the fall semester.  However, this is a full year course only offered at H. Frank Carey.

Prerequisite: Language 4A or Chairperson's permission

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