Spanish IV 03-09 AND 03-12

Spanish IV 03-09-07

(Sub – el Sr. Neves)

• Handout, ¿Cómo se dice ‘to become’ en Español? – worked through the exercises practicing the different idioms used depending on various contexts.
• Practiced the meanings of the first “chunk” of verbs from La lista máxima de verbos. _ Practiced sentences based on these.
• Yellow handout: Conexiones p. 25 – Traducción de vocabulario
• Distributed white handout: practicing the preterite and imperfect and how their meanings may change when translating to English. See page 32.

03-12-07

• Reviewed past-tense meaning changers – page 32.
• Practiced with the white handout from Friday- incorporating the past tense “meaning changers” into sentences.
• Watched the Barbara Kuzan Nelson interactive story, “!Qué miedo pasé!
• Did the follow-up preterite/imperfecto exercises based on the words from the hotel clerk’s anecdote about an incident that happened to her at work.
• Went to the the Proficiency Website from the University of Texas at Austin and listened to three people telling anecdotes about their worst dates/days.
• Tarea:
1. Write a paragraph detailing a similar anecdote: something frightening, your worst date ever or a really terrible time you had.
2. Continue working on the verbs from the “La lista máxima”: Hacer-Oponer