Spanish 1-2

We have begun Unidad 3 en Avancemos as the Salgado jersey continues its' tour around the Spanish -speaking world.  The shirt is now in Puerto Rico, a country I have not been to but would enjoy visiting.
This unit deals with food and verbs related to la comida.  The leccion also begins with conjugating ER and IR verbs and also how to use GUSTAR when talking about multiple things.
All students begin the semester with a perfect 0 score.  It is a great time to begin or keep maintaining that "A" grade.  Students took a quiz today on the food vocabulary and most students called it FACIL.
Students should be using Studyspanish.com in order to practice at home the grammar skills we are covering.  A regular ten  minutes at home can go a long way.

Spanish 5-6

We have begun studying the Subjunctive Mood and its various uses.  Students have learned that the subjunctive is used to express doubt, opinion, hope, and a number of other emotions with respect to an action that happens in the present tense.  We will be studying the Dominican Republic next week and listening to a song by Juan Luis Guerra entitled "Ojala Que Llueva Cafe".  For their next project students will be creating their own version of the song in order to express their own needs, hopes and desires.