jueves, el quince de enero del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Learning Objectives:

1A. Speaking assessments (use a four-frame story sequence to tell me a story). Nice job so far!

1B. Independent work (alone or with a partner)

--cultural reading: “Ten Ways Not to be Taken for a Gringo”
--complete any missing work
--tackle any unassigned workbook pages as final exam practice

Homework: Study for the final.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Learning Objectives:

1. Complete our “para empezar” warm-up: ¿Cómo se dice…?
--she was talking [Answer: hablaba]
--he slept [Answer: durmió]
--he was sleeping [Answer: dormía]
--I asked [Answer: pregunté]
--we were listening [Answer: escuchábamos]
--they used to read [Answer: leían]
--you became furious [Answer: te pusiste furioso/a]
--I got an idea [Answer: tuve una idea]
--there was a party [Answer: hubo una fiesta]
--I was sick (but it’s over) [Answer: estuve enfermo/a]

2. Listen to our song of the week: “La historia de Juan”

3. Practice our gestures and establish some new chapter 5 gestures.

4. (4th & 5th periods only): Review 5-3 in the workbook.

5. Practice writing an original story. Now that you have become proficient and telling a solid story in the past with high-frequency vocabulary (había, se llamaba, estaba, era, quería, podía, tenía, tuvo, se puso, anduvo, le dio), I’d like to see you start stretching yourself to become a bit more detailed/specific. How could you be more descriptive?

6. (5th & 6th periods only): Practice speaking (and attempting to stretch our expression) by telling an original story line to our classmates’ art.

Homework: Finish your composition that we worked on in class. Stretch your expression!