Spanish IV 01-18-09

Español IV
18 de febrero de 2009

• Inventario de habilidades: Handout: Personal Inventory of personality traits, work-related skills, and preferences. Students completed the information about themselves, and then working with a partner, asked and answered each other’s questions based on the information in the inventory.

• “Estoy pensando en una palabra” – Vocabulary Guessing Game: One partner describes a vocabulary item (in this case a profession) and the other partner guesses the answer.

• Announced the LESSON TEST over Conexiones – Preliminar for MONDAY, February 23, 2009.
1. Vocabulary: page 4 (majors & professions), pg. 5 (elements of a conversation), pg. 6 (technology terms), pg 7 (University culture)
2. Reading: page 3 – Know the article well and be able to recall the information in detail.
3. Structures/Grammar: Workbook packet: Gender and number of nouns; Numbers: Cardinal and Ordinal; Present-tense verbs: Regulars and Irregulars; Progressives: Present and Past; Ir + a + infinitive (present and past); Acabar + de + infinitive (present tense of acabar, but expresses immediate past action).

• Escudos: we continued with 7 more of our presentations today. Tomorrow we start with #16.

• Workbook Packet – page WB16, activity P-11. Working together as a whole class, we used the context of the sentences to guide us in our selection of the verb from those in the box at the top of the page.

• Tarea:
1. Study page 6 – technology vocabulary, and then use it to complete Actividad P-5. Rewrite these sentences in a logical sequence.
2. Workbook packet: Study the PROGRESSIVES on pages WB19-20, and then complete P-15 = Present Progressive and P-16 = Past Progressive.