tener

-Reviewed homework assignment on article concordance and corrected mistakes.
-Discussed how to use "tiene" vs. "tengo"; "Tengo" is used when referring to yourself. You say, "Yo TENGO suficiente". As in the homework assignment last week, if you are referring to one other person, you use "tiene". If you want to say that Luis has enough, use "Luis TIENE suficiente."
-Students practiced more with clothing vocab and were given homework to label clothing items (see attachment). Homework is due next class period, Wednesday 9/28

Start with do now activity (attached) related to our story last Wednesday.

Reviewed story up to this point:

Esmerelda (la protagonista) tiene 75 años.
Es generosa, elegante, y guapa.
Esmerelda tiene un problema. Quiere encontrar a un mejor amigo.
Primero, viaja a Colombia por avión.
Conoce a Jorge.
Jorge tiene 13 años y es amigable y joven.
Pero hay un problema con Jorge: es molestoso (annoying).
Jorge no es el mejor amigo de Esmerelda (porque es molestoso).

Entonces, Esmerelda viaja a Argentina para encontrar a su mejor amigo.
Conoce a Lionel Messi.
Messi tiene 25 años.
Es trabajador y alto.
Pero hay un problema con Messi: es serio.
Messi no es el mejor amigo de Esmerelda porque es serio.

Entonces viaja a España por barco.
Conoce a Guillermo.
Guillermo tiene 80 años.
...to be continued...

Tarea (homework): Using attached worksheet, complete a picture sequence of our story (so far) writing the basic story plot below the drawings. Students my want to leave the last one or two boxes blank to be filled in Wednesday for the end of the story.

Students arrive and complete the do now activity (attached below) to practice adjectives that describe people.

As a class, we're inventing a story to utilize some of the vocabulary and structures we've been working on recently. We're using TPRS to tell the story, which uses a lot of repetition and is done entirely in Spanish.

New vocabulary we're using for this story:
quiere encontrar a un mejor amigo (she wants to find a best friend)
viaja a (she travels to)
conoce a (she meets)
por tren (by train)
por avión (by plane)
por carro (by car)

Story so far (that we've created together):

Esmerelda (la protagonista) tiene 75 años.
Es generosa, elegante, y guapa.

Esmerelda tiene un problema. Quiere encontrar a un mejor amigo.
Primero, viaja a Colombia por avión.
Conoce a Jorge.
...to be continued...
The rest of the story aims to practice our ability at this point to describe people (physically, personality, nationality, age, name) and to practice our new phrases above.

Tarea (homework): students need to make flashcards out of the vocabulary we're working on including: words to describe people (worksheet attached), family members (students should have this in their notes as we've worked on it several times), and the verb tener (definition below). We've been working on all of these concepts the last several weeks.

tener (to have)
tengo (I have)
tienes (you have)
(él, ella, usted) tiene (he/she/you formal have)
tenemos (we have)
(ellos, ustedes) tienen (they/y'all have)