Friday, May 17, 2013

Spanish 2

Students should be working on their next project, a restaurant review that uses vocabulary and grammar from Unidad 1 Leccion 2.  Students will wright a review of their favorite restaurant that exlains what the restaurant serves, what they order, what the food is like, how the service is and how much the food costs.
They should use verbs such as pedir, costar, preferir, querer, servir, encontrar, poder, volver and other verbs used to talk about food and the restaurant setting.  The writing should be entirely in Spanish and should be word processed when completed.  Students should bring a rough draft to class on 21 de mayo with the final turned in on 23 de mayoActividad 19 on pagina 233 describes the project.

Spanish 6

Students have been practicing using the conditional tense to discuss things they would do if something else happened.   They will be putting their knowledge of the conditional and imperfect subjunctive tenses to work with their next project, a description of what they would do if they were president or king of the world.  The project should be presented as a book or a powerpoint presentation.  They will discuss ten things they would do if they were in such a leadership position as well as the reasons they would make said changes.  
Students should bring to class on Tuesday 21 mayo a draft of ten things they would do.  They should make sure they use different verbs, including a number of different irregular verbs like poder, saber, tener, haber, venir and salir.
The final project will be due on Thursday 23 de mayo

Monday, May 13, 2013

Hace mucho no?

It has been a few weeks since the last entry.
As we approach the end of the year we finish our new stuff and begin reviewing for final exams.

Spanish 2
We are  beginning Unidad 4 Leccion 2 which teaches more vocabulary about things to do in the city, places in the city, getting around town and having dinner in a restaurant.
The grammar is the use of stem changing verbs of the O-UE and E-I variety.
We will also learn how to talk about doing things in the future using IR+ IENDO and ANDO.

Spanish 6
We are talking and writing about professions while using the conditional tense.
Students will be writing about a profession, discussing what they would do in their profession.