el 12 de enero

Spanish II:

1. I handed back your projects.
2. We reviewed 3 important writing objectives. All will be on the test.
a. Use the verb Estar (to be) and the suffix ando (ar verbs) or iendo (er/ir verbs) to the next verb in order to say what is happening at the moment. For example: I am = estoy, visiting= visitando...estoy visitando.
b. para + infinitive verb (verb that doesn't have an ending, isn't conjugated) example of a typical incorrect sentence: Voy a llevar guantes esquiar en las montañas. To the English brain this translates correctly. I am going to wear gloves to ski in the mountains. But the problem is that we have an infinitive verb "esquiar" all by itself. We can't do that. We need to add the para in front of it. The correct sentence is: Voy a llevar guantes para esquiar en las montañas.
c. When we use a subject pronoun (yo, tú,nosotros, etc) THAT ISN'T HOW YOU TELL WHO IS DOING THE ACTION OF THE VERB!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can never write or say: Nosotros visitar to mean "we visit" because if you take of the pronoun then you are left with "to visit" The endings (o, as, é, aste, amos, etc) are the ones that tell us who is doing the action of the verb and to which tense we are referring.
3. Then we worked on part four of the project...the pictures of your vacation. You found your pictures and then wrote your first paragraph. You cannot write the second one until the first one is read by me.

If you were gone you need to take notes on the three things above and then do a paragraph description of a picture following the details on the project's instruction page.

Spanish III/IV:

1. Told a story about cookies in Spanish. Then we ate them.

2. Modeled how to do a song presentation:

a. Present the title of the song and the singer.
b. Go over the translation with the class.
c. As you go over the translation, clarify any colloquialisms or idiomatic expressions.
d. Play the song one time through while everyone reads through with you.
e. While the song is playing, you may not read, you are either singing or lip syncing. If your lip syncing isn't clear, then you will have to show me later that you know the song by heart.
f. Tell in Spanish if you liked the song, why or why not.

3. Then we listened to "Querer" by Chetes for the last two minutes of class.

If you were gone you need to take notes on how to do the song presentation and eat a cookie.