Spanish III 03-09-07

(Sub – el Sr. Neves)

Warm-up: Communicative Activity 1-2: Talking with a partner about camping and the equipment needed for various activities.
Corrected homework: in the textbook and in the workbook.
Practice quizzes for the vocabulary, the Preterite and the Imperfecto.
Homework: Students did not feel this was explained well, so few people did it.

Spanish III 03-12-07

Took notes over the verbs that when translated into English seem to “change their meanings” from the imperfect to the preterite. The verbs covered were:

Imperfect: Preterite:

Saber knew (information) found out, first learned of

Conocer knew (people, places) first met someone, first went to a place

Poder had to ability (at last) managed to do/negative – failed to do

Tener possessed, had (owned) “got”/received; owned briefly

Estar was (condition) “got”/became a condition

Entender understood caught on

Costar was valued at (didn’t buy) it cost + it was the price paid (did buy)

Preferir preferred decided to do

Querer wanted; loved wanted/loved BUT got over it; neg = refused to do

Haber (hay) there was/there were there occurred

Used Barbara Kuzen Nelson’s interactive web page over the Feria de San Fermín to practice the preterite and the imperfect. We did two of the exercises as a whole class.

Explained about the intended homework from Friday, and reassigned it for Tuesday. Using the four columns write 10 sentences about how one person/or group is interrupted in the middle of doing something by another action in the past.