Español III el 31 de marzo de 2011

1. Repasamos los exámenes

2. Precaliento - Leímos la Entrevista con Dina Burztyn - p. 70 y contestamos las preguntas de la actividad 3

3. WAVA - Actividad 2: Práctica de escuchar y entender el vocabulario

4. La hora tercera leyó de los Artistas Latinoamericanos; la cuarta hora lo va a leer mañana

Tarea -
1. WAVA - Actividad 6
2. Estudia el vocabulario

Información del examen - Improvement options:
1. Results are averaged with the original score in both sections
2. Did you have trouble with conjugating or selecting one or the other?
3. If you had troubles with conjugating, go to: conjuguemos.com
- Practice first! After you are able to complete 60 verbs with 90% accuracy in five minutes, send the results to us. Remember, that you MUST register and that the school code is 893
4. If you had problems selecting which verb tense to use, go here: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1635162.html
You will need to print out the page and bring it in for credit.
Have "Oops-I-guess-I-needed-more-practice" points turned in by 8:00 AM on April 6th (Wednesday).

Español II el 31 de marzo de 2011

1. Precaliento - Workbook page 30 - práctica con el vocabulario

2. Verbos Reflexivos - YouTube lesson on reflexive verbs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZTZZIiZog

3. New Packet - More help on reflexive verbs
-Worked through exercise A

4. WAVA - Actividad 1: La rutina diaria

5. Actividad 5 en el libro - p. 75 - práctica con el vocabulario nuevo

Tarea:
1. Tarjetas - 30-50
2. Workbook pages 29, 31

Español III el 30 de marzo de 2011

1. Precaliento - Leímos Fondy Cultural sobre Pablo Picasso en la página 66

2. Compartimos nuestros párrafos que escribimos anoche con otras personas

3. Hablamos del arte, usando las tarjetas con obras de arte mexicanas. Escribimos descripciones, nuestras opiniones, y luego hicimos comparaciones en parejas.

4. A primera vista 1... p. 68 - Aprendimos más vocabulario sobre el arte y hicimos las actividades uno y dos.

Tarea:
1. Tarjetas del vocabulario nuevo - todas las palabras de primera vista 1
2. Página 24 en el cuaderno de trabajo

Español II el 30 de marzo de 2011

1. Precaliento - Practice with clothing and body parts vocabulary

2. Pruebita - Prueba sobre el vocabulario

3. Presentación de verbos - Answered questions from PowerPoint using two verbs put together

4. A primera vista... Looked at new vocabulary in context on page 75 - words about getting ready and daily routines

Tarea:
1. Tarjetas de vocabulario - 1 - 29 on the vocab list
2. Bring back progress reports signed

Español III el 29 de marzo de 2011

1. Precaliento - Actividad 2 (p. 63). Práctica describiendo y comparando el arte de Picasso y Velásquez

2. Repasamos la tarea

3. WAVA - Actividad 1: práctica de escuchar con el vocabulario nuevo

4. Presentación del arte - Comparamos el arte de varios artistas usando PowerPoint y el vocabulario en la página 62.

Tarea
1. Escribe un párrafo sobre el arte usando 10 palabras del vocabulario. Puede ser específico o general

2. Bring back progress reports signed by parents!

Español II el 29 de marzo de 2011

1. Warm up- A thorough overview of 2A "A ver si recuerdas...", practice with vocabulary and translation exercises

2. Went over homework - Workbook pages 27 and 28

3. Canción del cuerpo- We practiced body parts by singing and dancing to a song

4. Went over 1A exam - Went over spelling test and 1A exam

5. Progress reports - Handed out progress reports to be signed and returned on Thursday

Tarea:
1. "A ver" crucigrama (both sides of worksheet)
2. Study for the vocabulary quiz tomorrow

Español III el 28 de marzo de 2011

1. Precaliento - Escribimos un párrafo sobre las vacaciones usando 8 verbos en el pretérito y lo leímos a otra persona

2. A ver si recuerdas... Miramos el vocabulario de la página 62 mientras vimos representaciones del vocabulario - palabras para describir el arte

3. Actividad 1 (p. 62) - Describimos los dos cuadros en el libro usando las palabras en la lista

4. Gramática de repaso - Comparasiones y adjectivos - (p. 63)

5. Hicimos la actividad 2 para practicar la gramática

6. Presentaciones

7. Progress Reports - Bring them back signed by Wednesday

Tarea:
1. "Tarea de vocabulario" worksheet
2. Workbook page 21

Español II el 28 de marzo de 2011

1. Terminamos el examen - Took the last 15 minutes to finish the 1B exam

2. A ver si recuerdas... Reviewed vocabulary for the body and clothing using pictures. We also followed along on the vocabulary from page 70.

3. Actividad 1: Completed activity on what is worn to where and when

4. Simón dice: Played "Simón dice" to practice body parts and clothing

5. Clothing packet - Worked through new vocabulary and exercise one

6. Gramática repaso - Two verbs together (first does the talking, second does the walking). Page 71: Words like querer, ir a, deber, etc.
- Completed activities 3 and 4

Tarea:
1. Workbook pages 27 and 28: Practice with vocabulary and verbs
2. Study the clothing and body vocab - Quiz on page 70 vocab on Wednesday

Español III el 16 de marzo de 2011

1. Reviewed the "tarea" : grammar "organizador" on workbook page 20.

2. Took Chapter 1 Exam: Listening & Reading Comprehension; Writing in the past tense: el imperfecto y el pretérito. (81 points)

3. Continued with our national parks power point presentations.

4. Watched a video about ecoturism and sports travel in the Spanish-speaking world.

¡Que pasen felices vacaciones de la primavera!

Español II el 16 de marzo de 2011

1. We did a "round robin" correction on the "Repaso de todo" homework review sheet - Students selected on another to fill-in the answers and then we went over them together.

2. Crucigrama - students checked their answers against the key.

3. Those selected as the "estrellas" from our group presentation of projects yesterday presented to the whole class today - and we debriefed what structures/vocabulary from the lesson they included.

4. Chapter 1B test = Students had 35 minutes to work on the test, but several said they would have likes about 10 minutes more - so they'll have that amount of time to review/complete it in our next class.

¡Felices vacaciones de la primavera!

Español III el 15 de Marzo de 2011

1. Precaliento - En parejas hicimos las rompecabezas para practicar el vocabulario

2. Examen de ortografía (el vocabulario del capítulo uno)

3. Actividad 43 (página 47) Práctica con el imperfecto y pretérito

4. Repasamos la tarea - Página 19 en el cuaderno de trabajo

Presentaciones

Tarea:
1. Workbook p. 20
2. Estudia para el examen:

1. Escuchar: You will hear stories of people going places, you will have to identify the person speaking, what they did, and what the result was

2. Leer: You will read descriptions of people and have to match them up with their school competitions

3. Imperfect - You will need to write sentences using the imperfect -study regular and irregular verbs

4. You will have to decide whether to use the preterit or the imperfect based on the context of a narrative and conjugate the verb accordingly

Helpful sites:
Conjuguemos:
Imperfect
Preterit
To practice choosing between preterit and imperfect:
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/pret_imp.php