Spanish IV 11-14-07

Spanish IV 11-14-07

• New seating chart
• New oral partners – Una visita a España
• With our Giralda partner, we read aloud the story we read last night, “Cuéntame un cuento”.
• We debriefed some of the special vocabulary, not already glossed in the margins, and also discussed a few of the aspects of the story. We began discussing the “Temas” on page 41, but I felt the discussion would benefit from the students reading through the story once again beforehand.
• We discussed some of the details of the upcoming project: confirmed the deadline dates and how to write up their proposals.
• We reviewed the meanings of the verbs to be quizzed tomorrow and I gave a few pointers on some “tricky bits” with them.
• We began the new unit, Lesson 2A: Tecnología y el progreso. We’ll be discussing ecology, so we began with a 3-column handout with (1)
• Topics they probably already knew how to discuss that relate to the topic (weather, geological formations, etc.) (2) What the student wanted to be able to talk about/learn in the unit. We’ll save the last column for after we finish :

(3) What I did learn.

• We introduced the vocabulary on page 46, which is alphabetically by parts of speech. I suggested that vocabulary is easier to learn when reorganized into thematic groups and I distributed a vocabulary list I made from these same words, with some additions – of course!
• Tarea/homework:
1. Verb quiz tomorrow ( arrastrar, aullar, calar, conducer, contra)
2. Write definitions for 8 words/items from the new vocabulary list.
3. Write out answers to the “Tema de discussion”, page 41, citing at least 3 supports for each of your answers.