indirect object pronouns

For warm-up activity, students wrote down all reflexive pronouns (me, te, se, nos, se).

I finished the grammar lecture, including:

Indirect object pronouns (which we worked on at the beginning of the year)

me
te
le
nos
les

These look similar to reflexive pronouns but are different in él/ella/usted and ellos/ustedes. Indirect objects are used (among other times) with verbs like gustar.

Students should think of gustar as to be pleasing to rather than to like.

Me gusta el café. (Literally, coffee is pleasing to me).
Indirect object pronouns mean, literally, to or for me/you/he/us/they.

It is also important for students to know how to use gustar. Gustar normally is seen as gusta or gustan.

Me gusta el chocolate. (gusta is used here because chocolate is a singular noun)
Me gusta viajar. (gusta is used here because what follows is an activity).
Me gustan las montañas (gustan is used because mountains are plural).

Futuro cercano (which we worked on earlier this year)

To talk about the "close" future, we use the combination of ir a + infinitivo.

Voy a estudiar mucho. (I am going to study a lot).
Vamos a hablar con nuestros amigos. (We are going to talk to our friends).

The rest of class we played a review game utilizing all of the information we've worked on lately. Students need to make sure they know all of this grammar from the last three classes so that we can move forward.

Tarea: complete attached worksheet filling in verb conjugations.

All AS students missed class Monday, so we extended Monday's class.

Reviewed on board how gustar is used.

Individually, students received the attached worksheet to use with the class activity. Students received a stack of notecards, each with a word on it. Students needed to put the cards in order to create a sentence, which they wrote down. Once students correctly ordered and wrote down sentences, they passed along the cards/sentence to the next person. Students on Monday got through about 5 sentences, so their task today was to try to complete 17 sentences.

Tarea: review gustar concepts for us to wrap up unit after break.

Students completed attached do now activity explaining their knowledge of how the verb gustar is used.

Reviewed on board how gustar is used.

Proposed a sentence that students needed to put in order:

escuela la gusta me

Students ordered the sentence: Me gusta la escuela.

Individually, students received the attached worksheet to use with the class activity. Students received a stack of notecards, each with a word on it. Students needed to put the cards in order to create a sentence, which they wrote down. Once students correctly ordered and wrote down sentences, they passed along the cards/sentence to the next person.

Tarea: translate the sentences you ordered in English (under column inglés).

Do now activity: students corrected the mistakes in the sentences below:
1. Me gusto la escuela. (Me gusta la escuela).
2. Te encanta los perros. (Te encantan los perros).
3. Me gustan viajar. (Me gusta viajar)
4. Te gusta español. (Te gusta el español).
5. Me gusta no correr. (No me gusta correr).

Students received attached worksheet and had to match the descriptions with the students and answer questions on the second page.

Tarea: complete worksheet from class. Several students already completed the assignment in class.

Students completed attached do now activity.

As a class, we reviewed the verb gustar.

Me gusta el chocolate.
Te gusta el chocolate.
Me gusta estudiar.
Te gusta estudiar.
Me gustan los animales.
Te gustan los animales.

Using attached worksheet with all student names and a space to write what each person likes or dislikes. Students were to choose a like and dislike from their list of likes and dislikes. Students were then to go around and ask everyone in class what they liked and what they disliked using model below:
¿Qué te gusta? Me gusta el chocolate.
¿Qué no te gusta? No me gustan los insectos.

Reviewed use of third person singular pronoun le.
¿Qué le gusta a Liora? A Liora le gusta el océano.
¿Qué no le gusta a Liora? A Liora no le gustan los insectos.

Tarea: attached translations

Students corrected mistakes on their test as do now activity.

Students received a copy of the attached word list (including mostly cognates) and practiced pronunciation in pairs. Students asked if there were any vocabulary they didn't know.

Introduced gustar (to be pleasing to) and explained how it's different than most verbs.
Me gusta el chocolate (Chocolate is pleasing to me. Chocolate is doing the action)
Students asked their partner if they liked 5 things on the list:
¿Te gusta la música?
Sí, me gusta la música.
o No, no me gusta la música.

When talking about plural nouns (mountains, animals, insects), the verb changes to gustan.
¿Te gustan las montañas?
Sí, me gustan las montañas.

Tarea: 5 things students love (me encanta/n)
5 things students don't like