Spanish IV 10-20-08

Español IV
20 de octubre de 2008

• Working in small groups students (1) Practiced telling their Jokes, (2) Read their “cuentito” on WB26, and then (3) Practiced the vocabulary on page 10, using their flashcards from last week.
• Joke-telling! Now that we were all back in class, we took turns telling the jokes we had prepared last week.
• Homework corrections: We started with the assignments prepped for last Wednesday: 1A-3, page 11 – sentences using vocabulary & 1A-8, page 14 – practicing the preterite.
• Overview of the major irregularities found in the preterite – see page 15.
• Back to our small groups – vocabulary practice, using the bilingual sentences prepared as homework for today and small white boards. We just got started on this, and will continue more of it through out the week so, SAVE YOUR SENTENCES, PLEASE.
• In period 3, I announced a vocabulary and preterite tense test for Thursday.
• In period 3, I distributed the progress reports not picked up at conferences by their parents.
• Tarea:
1. Page 14, Activity 9: Answer the questions based on your being a ghost in a house and the family that lives there just discovered that you and your ghostly friends also live there. Hint: Use as much of the vocabulary from the lesson as possible.
2. Study pp.15-16 – the irregulars with the preterite.
3. Page 16, Activity 10 – preterite.