FILIPINO - Intermediate

This is an intermediate class with emphasis on the four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course uses the functional-situational approach in learning a language.

The students shall learn four necessary skills in the effective use of Filipino: paglalahad (defining and explaining); paglalarawan (describing a person, place, or feelings); pagsasalaysay (narrating a story); and pangangatwiran (arguing). The vocabulary of the student is expanded through sample dialogues and short essays. Each lesson shall have several components: reading a text to increase vocabulary and study grammatical structures; doing a role-play; listening, and writing a short dialogue (eight lines) or a short paragraph (four to five sentences). Other classroom techniques are games, songs, and pair work.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to talk about themselves, their families and their communities, articulate their problems, needs and desires, narrate events, explain about their customs and traditions in the Filipino-American communities in the United States, and debate about issues relevant to them.