Spanish II 03-10-09

Español II
10 de marzo de 2009

• Period 4 made partner appointments; Period 2 got together with their 8:30 appointment and took turns reading aloud the script to Video Historia, pages 48-49, while I checked in homework.

• Partners worked together to find the answers to the comprehension questions, Actividad 3 – page 49, and then wrote them out. If they finished before the group, they were to practice vocabulary (pg. 68) with each other.

• We then watched the Video Historia acted out on the DVD that goes with the book.

• I gave a quick introduction/review of the concepts of Comparisons of Adjectives:
1. Unequal comparisons = taller/shorter than, older/younger than
2. Equal comparisons = Just as tall as, Just as much as, Just as many as
3. Superlatives = The tallest of the group.
See text page 53 – the box “Gramática” at the top of the page.

• We focused on “Equal Comparisons” =
1. We watched the GramActiva and did the oral practices with it.
2. New PACKET: Comparison of Adjectives (Amarillo)
We worked through the first section on Expressing Equality (pp. 174-175)

• Corrected tarea: Activity 4 – vocabulary (p.50) and 1B-B (Ir and Ir a infinitive)

• I gave Extra Credit Points to those who attended Careers Night.

Tarea:
1. Activity 5, page 50: Write out the vocabulary word/phrase that is described by each sentence.
2. Activity 8 (part 1), page 52: Select THREE ACTIVITIES that you do (from those in the purple bordered box) and write A SENTENCE IN SPANISH about EACH of them. Connect them together to make a little paragraph.
3. 2 MORE Vocabulary FANS – see yesterday’s blog if you need reminding how to do these. DO NOT REPEAT the words you practiced yesterday.