Spanish II 01-21-09

Español II
21 de enero de 2009

• Cultura: We talked about our unit theme: Los días festivos/feriados. Students made a 3 column list – graphic organizer and filled it with special celebrations and holidays in the Spanish-speaking world that they either knew something about or found referenced in our chapter. Our three columns were: (1) Los días festivos religiosos/de la Iglesia Católica (2) Los días feriados nacionales (3) Las celebraciones familiares.

• Vocabulary practice:
1. Video Historia – pages 214-215: Students read these pages aloud to each other, and then we watched the DVD of the actors saying the parts they had just read. We saw a traditional Basque Patron Saint’s Day celebration.
2. We corrected our homework: Act. 4 – el intruso. Last night I just intended for students to identify the word that didn’t fit with the others. They’ll use these “intrusos” in original sentences tonight.
3. Homework correction: Workbook packet 4B-1 & 2 -

• Past Tense practice
1. All of the Preterite Exams were finally made-up, so we went over the results today.
2. New packet: The Preterite and Imperfect Tenses Compared. We did “active study-reading” over the uses and study notes on the first page.
• Tarea:
1. Write out the sentences for the INTRUSOS in Act. 4, page 216.
2. Write complete sentences for the comprehension questions in Act. 3, page 215.
3. Write out complete answers to the questions about your childhood on the white questions handout, “Entrevista sobre tu niñez”. Be sure to (a) give appropriate information (b) answer the verb in the correct form and (c) use Spanish word order.