lunes, el veintiséis de octubre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Announcement: Mr. Valenta left a very positive sub. report for Friday’s class. Nice work.

Announcement: All work completed with Mr. Valenta will be turned in TOMORROW.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for seven minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss what we did over the weekend. Today you were not allowed to use “fui” (I went) in your answer, as we tend to over rely upon that one choice!

3. Practice answering some of our other fundamental questions.

On the “¿Cómo estás?” page, a new IMPORTANT word was added to the top of the page:

estaba = I was, s/he was

4. Listen to and sing last week’s song of the week: “Vivir.”

5. Receive last Thursday’s culture quizzes. Nice job!

6. Begin the homework: 1-5 & 1-6 (with all even’s additionally translated).

Homework: 1-5, 1-6 in the workbook (all even’s additionally translated)

Español Dos (2):

Announcement: Mr. Valenta left a mostly positive sub. report for Friday’s class. Thank you to all of you who were on-task.

Announcement: All work completed with Mr. Valenta will be turned in TOMORROW.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss what we did over the weekend. Today you were not allowed to use “fui” (I went) in your answer, as we tend to over rely upon that one choice!

3. Practice answering some of our other fundamental questions.

4. Listen to and sing last week’s song of the week: “Andar conmigo.”

5. Receive last Thursday’s culture quizzes. Nice job!

6. Practice some more “verb phrases” (wants to ___, needs to ___, has to ____, etc.).

--They need to ask me. ....(Necesitan preguntarme.)
--You should answer. ....(Debes contestar.)
--I would like to wait. ....(Me gustaría esperar. / Quisiera esperar.)
--Are you going to hand it in? ....(¿Vas a entregarlo?)
--I ought to think. ....(Debo pensar.)
--We plan to arrive. ....(Pensamos llegar.)
--He can sing well. ....(Puede cantar bien.)
--She has to leave. ....(Tiene que salir.)
--They want to give. ....(Quieren dar.)
--Do you prefer to know? ....(¿Prefieres saber?)

Homework: None.