Spanish II 09-10-08

Spanish II 09-10-08
• I reviewed classroom names while taking roll.
• Warm-up: Adjective review (white handout): meanings, masculine/feminine options, meaning opposites.
• I stamped homework (subject pronouns 2-sided handout) while students worked on the warm-up and wrote the answers on the board. Then we reviewed the answers together as a class.
• Reviewed subject pronouns as we corrected the subject pronouns homework under the document camera.
• With our understanding on the subject pronouns of verbs more solid, we then used them with the verb SER – see page 5. We reviewed the forms, again referring to last night’s homework, and then students read ACTIVITY 7, page 5, writing down the 10 forms of the verb SER needed to complete the blanks. Again I had students come to the board to write their answers and the other students gave a “thumbs up/down” to indicate if they agreed with the written answers.
• We had a question over the use of “vosotros/as” and clarified that subject pronoun = It is used in Spain as a plural of “tú” (You and someone else). In Latin America “tú” uses “ustedes” as its plural, as does “usted”.
• We drilled the conjugations of SER using a small, soft, soccer-like ball with various subjects written on each section. The students caught the ball, said the subject under their thumb, and selected the form of SER for that subject.
• Introduced, and practiced, the NATIONALITY ADJECTIVES from various Spanish-speaking countries. See page 6.
• We did some pronunciation practice with the difference of the rolled “R” versus the single-tapped “R”. Roberto es de Puerto Rico. Roberto es puertorriqueño. Roberto corre rápidamente.
• I also handed out 2 packets:
1. Vocabulary list (Spanish/English), and a packet of activities for both parts of this chapter. Start working on learning the vocabulary, but please wait to do the exercises until they are assigned.
2. Lists of Spanish-speaking countries and their capital cities, and then a map of the Spanish-speaking world. This is something we will memorize.
• We went over last night’s sign-off homework about “how to study”
• Tarea:
1. Make 2-sided flashcards of the NATIONALITY ADJECTIVES on the vocabulary list packet, and begin studying them.