martes, el veintidós de septiembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Answer our basic questions.

Expand our answer choices for “¿Cómo estás?”
--contento/a (happy)
--enfermo/a (sick)
--cansado/a (tired)
--triste (sad)
--mejor (better)
--peor (worse)

**Quick discussion of how the “o” in “contento” is masculine for boys, and how the “a” in “contenta” is feminine for girls.

New basic question: “¿Cómo eres?” (What are you like?) “Soy….” (I am….)

**Quick discussion of how we use this question for personality & physical descriptions:

Our current answer choices are limited to the words we’ve seen in class thus far:

personality description:
--atlético/a (athletic)
--bueno/a (good)
--malo/a (bad)
--arrogante (arrogant)
--cómico/a (funny)
--artístico/a (artistic)
--loco/a (crazy)

physical description:
atractivo/a (attractive)

2. Listen to our new song of the week: “El rey.” Quick discussion of “música mariachi / ranchera.” This song, like last week’s “Cielito lindo” is a classic “ranchera” song. The term “ranchera” comes from “rancho” (ranch). "Rancho" is a good example of a word that English took from Spanish. Ranches are very common in México and a specific type of music evolved on these ranches starting in the mid-1800’s. That music (still very popular today) is called “ranchera.” When it is performed live by a mariachi band, it can also be called “música mariachi.”

3. Learn some new gestures and copy those new phrases into our picture dictionary:

--le dice………………….…s/he says to him/her
--le pregunta………………..s/he asks him/her
--hay………………….……there is / there are
--tiene……………………....s/he has
--un montón de dinero……..a ton of money
--señala…………………….s/he points (to)
--quiere…………………….s/he wants
--se va……………………...s/he goes away
--¡Qué lástima!.....................What a shame!
--necesita…………………..s/he needs

Homework: Finish copying and illustrating our new gesture phrases into your picture dictionary.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Establish some Spanish 2 “basic questions” and some possible responses.
--¿Cómo estabas (ayer)?.....(How were you (yesterday)?)
--¿Cómo eras (de pequeño/a)?.....(What were you like (as a kid)?)

2. Listen to our new song of the week: “El rey.” Nice job catching the first two missing words: estoy, triste.

Quick discussion of “música mariachi / ranchera.” This song, like last week’s “Cielito lindo” is a classic “ranchera” song. The term “ranchera” comes from “rancho” (ranch). "Rancho" is a good example of a word that English took from Spanish. Ranches are very common in México and a specific type of music evolved on these ranches starting in the mid-1800’s. That music (still very popular today) is called “ranchera.” When it is performed live by a mariachi band, it can also be called “música mariachi.”

3. Establish some new gestures:
lo besa = s/he kisses him
la besa = s/he kisses her
se va = s/he goes away
le muestra = s/he shows to him/her
señala = s/he points (to)
lo conoce = s/he knows him
la conoce = s/he knows her
un montón de dinero = a ton of money

Homework: Finish illustrating our new gestures in your picture dictionary.