Spanish II 09-23-08

Español II
Martes, 23 de septiembre de 2008

• Vocabulary review – from page 14 – via Interactive games I made on the Quia site. We did electronic flashcards and word searches. The Smartboard seemed to be acting up towards the end, but it seems that our server went down, so that explains it. Want to practice these at home? Here’s the address http://www.quia.com/jg/1160514.html

• We reviewed the conjugations of the irregular verbs on the top of page 15 – we completed the verb chart, so now I think everyone understands how to do this in the future. The verbs are: Tener, Hacer, Poner and Hacer. These verbs are irregular in their “YO” form, all of them ending with “-go”, so I’ve always called them Yo-go’s. Evidently many people were hungry as this term reminded them of the yogurt pouches you can buy to eat on the go.

• We went over special expressions used with the verb TENER – I’ll post these notes on this blog, too. Remember, for many of these expressions in English we would use, “I am, you are… = to be” but in Spanish these are nouns (things) that we “have” – I have hunger = Tengo hambre.

• We started going over the corrections from our Para Empezar exam, now that all of the make-ups are completed, but as the class was about to end and there were questions, I recollected them and we’ll spend some more time on them tomorrow. I’m waiting to post the grades on eSIS until we can verify the corrections.

• Tarea:
1. Pink handout – Maps = Label the countries, their capital cities and the oceans/seas as indicated on the handout. You may write directly on the handout, or use another piece of paper, as you prefer. Thanks for being sure it is easy to read.
2. Blue handout – 1-A-A=Page 14 vocabulary practice;
1-A-B (reverse) = Page 15 verbs practice.
3. Yellow handout = La pesadilla de Jaime: Practicing the Tener expressions. Label each drawing of Jaime’s nightmares with the corresponding expression and by the empty box at the bottom choose one of the expressions not yet used, write the expression and then create another drawing to illustrate it.