números

Students arrived and labeled things in a classroom on the sheet attached. We are doing a bit of review and practice at the beginning of each class to make sure students still remember vocabulary and concepts they learned in the past.

We added two new review topics: numbers and a quick conversation about the weekend.
* Numbers: students counted by tens to 100 and from 100 to 1000 by hundreds, remembering the irregulars:
* 500 quinientos
* 700 setecientos
* 900 novecientos

Students practiced quick conversation with 4 people:
Estudiante A: ¿Qué vas a hacer este fin de semana? (What are you going to do this weekend?)
Estudiante B: Voy a...esquiar, relajarme, leer, estudiar, dormir, jugar al fútbol).
Estudiante A: Que pases buen fin de semana.
Estudiante B: Igualmente.

We went over what students had learned about Carnaval. They also listened to a short article about Carnaval and were asked some listenening comprehension questions about it.

We made cascarones, confetti filled eggs that are used in México during Carnaval.

Tarea: no hay. I know students are busy next week preparing for Expo, but we will be having class both Wednesday and Friday.

Students completed questions below.

¿cuál es el número?
1. setecientos setenta y tres ________________
2. quinientos catorce ________________
3. doscientos uno ________________

Escribe la conjugación correcta:
3. estudiar (yo) _________________
4. tener (nosotros) _________________
5. ser (ellos) _________________
6. estar (tú) _________________
7. ir (él) _________________

We reviewed conjugation of regular -ar verbs and introduced conjugation of -er/-ir verbs.

Conjugation of -er/ir verbs: present

The first step is to drop the ending and add:
for -er verbs:
-o
-es
-e
-emos
-en

For verbs ending in -ir, the conjugation is the same as -er verbs except nosotros, which is -imos.

Students were paired up and asked to create a review game to review the concepts we've been working on in the last few classes:
* posessive pronouns
* personal pronouns
* masculine/feminine nouns
* verb conjugations present (tener, ser, estar, ir, regular -ar/er/ir verbs).

Tarea: finish making game and study above concepts. We will be playing the games and reviewing on Wednesday (no school this Friday) and will have a quiz next Friday.

Repaso (números, ser, estar, hay, tener)

Students arrived and wrote the following numbers in Spanish.
1. 100
2. 75
3. 342
4. 783
5. 1999

We are going to spend some time reviewing some concepts students may have learned in the past but may have forgotten or need a little practice with. We started reviewing numbers. Review below:
20 veinte
30 treinta
40 cuarenta
50 cincuenta
60 sesenta
70 setenta
80 ochenta
90 noventa
100 cien
200 doscientos
300 trescientos
400 cuatrocientos
500 quinientos
600 seiscientos
700 setecientos
800 ochocientos
900 novecientos
1000 mil

We also reviewed the most basic Spanish verbs:

• hay -- there is/there are
• ser -- to be (permanente). We use ser with nationalities, professions, and physical and personality traits. Conjugations: soy, eres, es, somos, son
• estar -- to be (temporal). We use estar with temporary states of being -- emotion, health, location. Conjugations: estoy, estás, está, estamos, están
• tener -- to have. Used to talk about things we have as well as the following uses: tener sed/hambre (to be thirsty/hungry, literally to have thirst/hunger), tener calor/frio (to be hot/cold), tener + años (I have 12 years = I am 12 years old).

Listening activity: animals

Students received the attached form with pictures of animals. We talked about what animals they know in Spanish and they labeled all of the animal names under the animal heading. We listened to someone talking about animals and describing them. Students were to make sure they wrote the name of the animal and write down anything else they understood. The audio is attached.

Tarea: review numbers and verbs hay, ser, estar, tener including conjugations.