Monday, October 26, 2009

Español IV 26 de octubre de 2009

Español IV
26 de octubre de 2009


1. Warm-up: Activity 1-12, page 17. Using at least 10 of the verbs provided in the yellow box by the activity, describe the major events in the preterite of a book or movie you have read/seen. Then, working with another, students tried to guess the book/movie.

2. Estoy pensando en una palabra - Played this "talk all around it" vocabulary game in groups of 3, using the definitions written on the "scatter vocabulary handout" from last Wednesday. One partner read the definition and the other two tried to be the first to recognized the word described and circle it before the other one did.

3. WORKBOOK PACKET - El arte de contar- Activity 1-1, WB25: Students filled-in the missing words from this "strange event" story. I did a "dramatic reading" of it to Halloween sound effects that matched the story.

4. Working with a partner, student read aloud the Parte 1 of "Una abeja haragana" - a fable about a lazy bee.

Tarea:

1. Complete the Comprendió Ud. questions in the Abeja haragana story, page 339, ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER using COMPLETE sentences, por fa.
2. Do the "Estructuras gramaticales - El infinitivo, pg. 166" activity towards the back of the Abeja packet - referring to the Parte I or Parte II and the given page numbers. NOTE: I took this activity out of a different book from the story, so the page numbers are NOT continuous.
3. WB26 - Activity 1-2: Complete your own "Suceso misterioso" in the workbook packet.
4. If you received a Progress Report today, please review it with your parent(s) and return it signed tomorrow. If your parent(s) came to conferences, then you already have credit for this.