Saturday, March 22, 2014

Sunday March 23 is El Clasico, Real Madrid contra FC Barcelona
Watch it on BEIN Deportes at 3pm for extra credit

Spanish 3-4

We practice our dialogues monday in order to prepare for presentations of "En el Restaurante" on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Make sure to bring in props for the skit.  Bowties, menus, food, anything to make it fun and realistic.  We are using food vovabulary from Unidad 5 en Avancemos as well as commands and object pronouns.  Many groups have written some great skits!  Cant wait for the presentations.

Spanish 1-2

We are continuing our study of food vocabulary in Unidad 3 Leccion 1.  The Leccion also focuses on the use of ER and IR verbs and interrogative words.  WE will be having the U3L1 Examen on wednesday.  Continue the use of QUIA in order to practice those verbs and the interrogative words.  Flash cards are also a great tool to practice the conjugations.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

4 de Marzo 2014

Spanish 3-4

We are still working on formal usted commands as we prepare for our Tapas Fiesta on thursday March 6.
Sr. Johnson will be preparing a tortilla de patatas and students will be bringing in the tapas they have prepared for the class to sample and enjoy.
Students should be using QUIA on a regular basis in order to practice the usted commands and the food vocabulary we have been studying.  Recent exams have shown that a good number of our students have a firm grasp of how to form and use the usted commands. There is still a portion of students that need to work on the process of using usted commands with object pronouns.
Looking forward to Tapas el jueves.

Spanish 1-2

Our first year students have completed their "Mi Escuela" projects in which they described their school, classes, activities and compared them to another school in a Spanish speaking country.  Well done!
Our new focus is on the use of the present progressive in discussing what they and others are doing.  We have created a monster list of useful verbs that students will be organizing thematically and studying in order to increase their ability to talk about themselves, what they do on a regular basis and what they are now doing.
Next week we dive into Unidad 3 in Avancemos as we begin studying food and meals and discussing what they like to eat in restaurants and prepare at home.  QUIA should be on every student's list foe homework time.  Check out the Que estan haciendo? activity I modeled after our period seven class!