Spanish II 02-04-09

Español II
04 de febrero de 2009

• 10 Warm-up sentences practicing Ser + Adjectives. – I projected the English and students translated them while I checked in homework. Then students took turns going to the white board to write their answers. We went over the answers and reinforced what made them correct. We were looking for Subject-Verb agreement (Who + form of Ser) and Noun + Adjective agreement (form of adjective goes with person described).
• Homework corrections: we distributed the red pens and students made corrections as we took turns asking the questions from the book and sharing our answers.
• APUNTES – Notes over use of adjectives – look for this as a separate blog entry.
• Vocabulary expansion – We added a few terms (see the vocabulary list at the end of the APUNTES) and then did a quick review of colors, and some more descriptive adjectives
• Vocabulary review games: we played a couple of the Quia site games, practicing the vocabulary. I gave some tips on how to study effectively for vocabulary tests.
Tarea
1. Write 10 sentences using SER and the adjectives on page 3.
Be sure to write one sentence for each of the subject pronouns:
Yo, tú, Ud., él (or a boy’s name), ella (or a girl’s name), Nosotros/as, Vosotros/as, Uds., ellos (or 2 boy’s name/ a boy’s & a girl’s name) and ellas (or 2 girls’ names).

2. Translate each of your 10 sentences to English AFTER you’ve written it in Spanish.

3. I announced a quiz/spelling test on the 18 adjectives on page 3 for Friday.
You can practice these adjectives on the website www.quia.com/jg/1160515.html
I will give you the word in English; you need to quickly and accurately write the Spanish for it.