jueves, 5 de noviembre de 2009

jueves, el cuatro de noviembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Practice pronouncing unknown words in Spanish, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics. Your instincts about where the natural stress goes are very good. We're almost ready to start learning a bit about accent rules.

--meñique……….me/ñi/que
--arena………….a/re/na
--termómetro…...ter//me/tro
--tubería………..tu/be//a
--tijeras…………ti/je/ras
--cinturón………cin/tu/rón
--tornillo……….tor/ni/llo
--mecedora…….me/ce/do/ra
--helecho………he/le/cho
--búho…………/ho

2. Listen to our song of the week: “Vida más simple.” Nice job catching the last two missing words: hablar, preguntar.

3. Practice listening to others’ voices in Spanish with a few Paso a paso listening activities.

4. Practice our chapter two gestures.

5. Begin the homework.

Homework: Workbook pages 2-3, 2-4, 2-7 (evens additionally translated to English).

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

Announcement: You will receive your reading quizzes tomorrow. Nice job on them! The scores are on Skyward.

1. Practice writing complete & accurate sentences in Spanish by tackling questions #10-18 on yesterday’s page of questions.

2. Practice pronouncing unknown words in Spanish, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics.

Reestablish the first accent rule that we know: All words ending in a vowel have a natural (invisible) stress on the second to last syllable.

--meñique……….me/ñi/que
--rompecabezas...rom/pe/ca/be/zas
--termómetro…...ter//me/tro
--tubería………..tu/be//a
--tijeras…………ti/je/ras
--iman...............i/man
--disfraces........dis/fra/ces
--polen.............po/len
--helecho………he/le/cho
--búho…………/ho

Discern a second part to the first accent rule we already know: All words ending in an n or s also have the natural (invisible) stress on the second to last syllable.

3. Listen to our song of the week: “Vida más simple.

4. Practice listening to others’ voices in Spanish with a few Paso a paso listening activities.

5. Continue with our list of reading vocabulary.

Homework: Keep studying your pink packet vocabulary.