Spanish IV 2-28-08

Español IV 02-28-08

• Warm-up: We practiced conjugations in the preterite at www.conjuguemos.com. Each student came to the computer and completed a conjugation given at random, while the other students conjugated the same verb, via the projected image of the computer screen on the Smart Board.
• I asked students to take out their participation grades packets and reminded them of the other helpful sites listed there. We went to www.wordchamp.com, where I showed them how they could get pronunciation conjugation practice on verbs, as well as downloading entire verb charts to study from, as you can find in the 501 Verbs reference book.
• Then we went to the University of Texas Spanish department’s Spanish Proficiency site and we watched some Quick Time videos and listened to speakers from Spain, Peru and Mexico talk about their TV viewing habits. I demonstrated a couple of other features from this site, too. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html
• Working with our “Escritor” partner, students began writing a story about when they first discovered a place they visited was haunted, using the questions in Actividad 9, page 14, in their texts to guide their stories. We’ll continue this tomorrow and share their stories using the document camera, while each member of the duo reads/acts out their story.
• Students took turns writing on the Smart Board their English equivalents to the sentences they wrote night-before-last incorporating the new vocabulary items. Working with our “seat partner” and using the small white boards, students then translated the English into the Spanish equivalent. We held up the small boards when done and compared answers. Students asked that we continue this tomorrow.
• We’ll also play our ‘guessing game’ that we prepared last night about a book/movie (Act. 12, page 17)
• Tarea:
1. Come ready to tell your “clean joke” in Spanish tomorrow.
2. Write out definitions for 10 of the vocabulary words: NOT and English to Spanish vocabulary list, BUT RATHER a sentence describing the word. It might be something like: “Es un sinómimo de …”, Es el opuesto de…” or simply a sentence describing the word.