Spanish IV 09-08-08

Spanish IV 09-08-08
• We reviewed ways of starting off a conversation, how to introduce a topic, and how to close a conversation – see page 5, textbook.
• We reviewed the names of some professions, and then made partner “appointments” using the pictured page with drawings of various professions.
• Working with our “el cantante” partner, students interviewed each other the conversation guide on page 5, Activity 3 (page 5) and using the blue handout, “Preguntas de pareja”, then the partners read aloud the paragraphs they wrote as homework last night. All of this is preparation for the oral activity due tomorrow.
• Review of the basics: Using the workbook packet – page 1 & a power point, we reviewed the parts of speech in Spanish, and then focused on the “NOUN” group: especially nouns and definite/indefinite articles.
• Reviewed the months of the year by forming a “human bar graph” by standing in rows in front of the card with our birth month. We then tallied the number of people born in each month of the year. We’ll use this data for our homework write-up.
• Tarea:
1. Prepare an oral presentation of your “el cantante” partner for the class tomorrow. Resources: Signos de Zodíaco handout from Friday, Page 5, Preguntas personales – remember you have your partner’s phone number as one of your answers, so you can call/text and prep each other.
2. Workbook packet – page WB2, exercise P-1.
3. Calculate the percentages of births for each month for our class, and then write up some comparative sentences, in Spanish, based on the data.
e.g. There are just as many births in March as in May –
Hay tantos nacimientos en marzo como en mayo.