jueves, el dieciocho de septiembre del dos mil ocho

Español Uno (1):

Announcements:

1. WOW--Spanish 1--you did a terrific job with your written retells of the story of "Ana, la astronauta enferma." I am so impressed. Every single one of you did a terrific job of communicating in Spanish. Good job keeping your pencils moving and not stopping to debate details. You're demonstrating writing fluency on week 2!!!! AMAZING.

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. "Para empezar" (In order to begin) warm-up

¿Cómo se dice…? (How is it said…?)

...How would you express the following?

-- you draw [Answer: dibujas]
-- you wait [Answer: esperas]
-- you understand [Answer: entiendes]
-- you walk [Answer: andas]
-- you give to him/her [Answer: le das]

**Quick review that adding "s" to our gestures makes them communicate "you."

2. Listen to our song-of-the-week: "Cielito lindo."

**Quick discussion of the phrase "no llores." Who is that phrase, "don't cry" intended for? [Answer: you] How do we know that? [Answer: the letter "s"]

What would the following communicate?:

--no mires [Answer: don't (you) look]
--no agarres [Answer: don't (you) grab]
--no andes [Answer: don't (you) walk]
--no dibujes [Answer: don't (you) draw]

3. Continue with number activity with numbers put in random sequences. Intentionally learning these numbers out of order is what we're doing. In the future we won't be stuck counting through a sequence on our fingers to finally get to the number 15, for instance.

Today's new numbers (added to 14, 6, 10, 15, 8, 1):

--siete (7)
--doce (12)
--nueve (9)
--cinco (5)
--cuatro (4)

4. Quick retell of "Ana, la astronauta enferma" in the PAST! WOW--Spanish 1 students--you are impressing me. Good job following along with my pointing to new past tense words to answer questions about our story.

5. Start our new story: "El cuento de Jaime y Pepe, dos muchachos con un secreto." (1 paragraph into the story...to be continued tomorrow.)

New words so far (in order of appearance):

--dos muchachos (two boys)
--con un secreto (with a secret)
--no son (they are not)
--médicos (doctors/medics)
--ni (nor)
--tímidos (timid)
--tienen (they have)
--no es que (it's not that)
--quieren mirar (they want to watch)
--su (their)

Homework: None. Although always feel free to reread our stories. Remember, repetition is the KEY to language acquisition.

Español Dos (2):

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. "Para empezar" (In order to begin) warm-up: Can you decipher the meanings of 26 cognates from chapter one?

2. Listen to our song-of-the-week: "Cielito lindo."

**Quick discussion of the phrase "no llores."

What pattern do you notice with the following?: "no mires," "no agarres," "no andes"

Answer: We use "opposite endings" to make these negative commands:

no dibujas (you don't draw) VS no dibujes (don't draw!)
no escuchas (you don't listen) VS no escuches (don't listen!)
no escribes (you don't write) VS no escribas (don't write!)
no subes (you don't climb) VS no subas (don't climb!)

3. Practice our gestures

4. Continue (4th period) / Finish (5th-6th periods) our new story, "Jaime y Pepe, dos muchachos con un secreto."

5. (5th period): True/False questions about story

Homework: None. Although always feel free to reread our stories. Remember, repetition is the KEY to language acquisition.