Español II el 30 de noviembre de 2010

Español II
el 30 de noviembre de 2010

1. Fondo cultural - Qué talla uso? - page 109: Read about how shoes sized vary between Spain and Mexico and then calculated our own shoe size in Spain.

2. Demonstrative Adjectives: Reviewed our memory poem and the forms we learned yesterday. NEW PACKET - we worked through the first two pages, completing Practices A, B & C and EXERCISES A & B.

3. "Adjectives as Nouns" - see page 116. We reviewed 3 of the parts of speech (las partes de la oración): Articles (definite/indefinite), Nouns and Adjectives (descriptive ones). Then practiced avoiding repeating the same noun a second time by just using its article and adjective ("the red one" or "a blue one").
TRIVIA: Cómo se dice "Noun" en español?

4. WAVA - Listening exercise 7: el pretérito - What pranks did these teenagers admit to having been the most "daring" thing they have ever done? Based on the drawings, students made predictions about what they were going to hear to before listening to the exercise.

5. Homework Review:
a. Crossword - vocabulary 2B
b. Lotería - Regular -Ir & -Er verbs: We played the game students had prepared beforehand. I gave the English and students practiced the Spanish equivalent.

Tarea:
1. WAVA Packet - page 44, Activity 12. Describe what ALICIA sees going on in the park using Este, Ese, Aquel from HER perspective (she's the girl sitting under the tree).
2. Workbook - page 45: More practice with "Aquel" - Part A also use the stressed possessives from our last lesson - "Aquel libro es mío". Part B - Say which article of clothing you prefer using Este/Ese/Aquel for the item indicated by the arrow.