miércoles, el doce de diciembre

Spanish I:

• Today we began the first new chapter of the year, Unidad 2, etapa 1. Students will be quizzed on all the verbs and adverbs in this unit on Monday, December 17th.
• Students learned about a subject/verb/object structure, what each one means, and what an adverb is, and where to place it in a sentence in Spanish.
• I stressed the importance of taking good notes, and listening to the new material, and to study it every day to prepare for the unit test on 2.1 (which will be in January, 2013). Students grades dropped if they did badly on the review test, and this will only increase depending on the grades they get on their 2.1 test or their midterm (both in January, 2013).

Homework:

All due Monday:

• conjugate the 22 "ar" verbs (some from Unidad 1, etapa 1) and moat from the new 2.1 unit.
• make one original sentence in Spanish, with each of the 22 verbs, using different pronouns. You may not use the verb "gustar" : "Me gusta bailar" is not an acceptable sentence for this assignment). It must be something like:

                      Yo hablo español.

                      Nosotros escuchamos música.

• make one original sentence in Spanish with each of the 8 adverbs of frequency that we learned today, making sure you put it in the correct position in the sentence.

Grammar Lesson:

• We went over grammar structures: subject  verb  object. I explained that the subject is the person (or thing) that does the action, the verb is the action, and the object receives an action.

                          Example : I (subject) teach (verb) Spanish (object)

• We went over adverbs: tell you how you do something:

                        Example: I speak quickly.

We then went over the 8 adverbs of frequency that tell you how often they do something, and students copied the chart. They learned where the adverb must be placed, or else it is in the wrong order. the order in Spanish is the same as in English: some adverbs go before the verb, some go after the verb, and some go at the beginning or end of a sentence.

 Before the verb: siempre (always), nunca (never), rara vez (rarely)
      Yo siempre estudio. = I always study.

After the verb: mucho (often, or a lot), poco ( a little)
    Yo estudio mucho. = i study a lot.

At the begininning or end of a sentence: a veces (sometimes), de vez en cuando (once in a while), todos los días (every day)
    A veces yo estudio. OR Yo estudio a veces. = Sometimes I study. OR I study sometimes.



Quiz:

• • There will be a vocabulary quiz on 2.1 (part 1- all the adverbs and verbs on pg 121) on Monday, December 17th

3rd Grade Spanish:

• Students played a match game with the weather expressions. They took the match cards home for more practice, as well as the list of weather expressions. They will have a test on these words on Monday, December 17th.

Weather

Hace frío. = It is cold.                        Hace fresco. = It is cool.

Hace calor. = It is hot.                        Hace niebla. = It is foggy.

Hace sol. = It is sunny.                        Está lloviendo. = It is raining.

Hace viento. = It is windy                   Está nevando. = It is snowing.

Hace tormenta. = It is stormy.             Está nublado. = It is cloudy.