Filipino 2 is a continuation of Filipino 1. It is an early intermediate level course where students will be able to sustain a conversation on everyday topics and do simple role-plays for situations such as: giving directions on the street; shopping, going to a doctor’s clinic, or ordering at a restaurant. The students will also learn basic structural patterns of sentences, including verb aspects (completed, incompleted; contemplated), and subjunctive and imperative forms. They will be able to read news items (authentic texts from a newspaper) and follow and understand a short narrative video or news clip (authentic text) with the help of a dictionary. Each lesson should have a role-play and all comprehension questions for listening and writing exercises should be answered by the student.There will be cultural notes for every lesson to develop critical thinking as the student looks into the dynamics of language and culture, and language and history. Similarly, authentic reading texts (short short stories, news items, excerpt from an autobiography etc) and listening exercises (from video clips) provide students with a better understanding of contemporary life in the Philippines including cultural practices, problems in city spaces and the urban poor, low wages and purchasing power. All lessons in the Course Outline should employ several methods and strategies as outlined above. This gives students the opportunity to practice all skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing.