deportes

Students conjugated verb ser as their warm up activity and put their group of notecards in a ring.

Final two groups presented their sport while other students listened and took notes.

Listened to recordings talking about different exercises/sports from native speakers. Students listened to each recording twice and talked about what they heard. We are going to start incorporating listening activities each week in our classes.

Introduced various short connecting words that students should learn:
y (and)
con/sin (with/without)
o (or)
en (in/on)
de (of/from)
también (also)
pero (but)
porque (because)

Tarea: Write a half page describing a few of your hobbies (pasatiempos).

The warm up activity for students was to write indirect object pronouns on a flashcard (me, te, le, nos, les). These are pronouns we use with gustar.

Students were given 10 minutes to work in their groups on their sport presentations. Three groups presented, while other students listened and wrote down what they learned in attached documents.

Next class, the remaining two groups will present and we will complete the listening activity where Spanish-speakers from various countries talk about the sports/exercise they like to do.

Tarea: correct tests. Students were given their tests back with mistakes underlined. They need to fix mistakes they made.

We've been working on a big grammar review the last few weeks and students took the test (attached) today. Several students were not in class today so please give your students the test and have them bring it in Thursday.

When students finished, they paired up and chose a sport that they need to describe and explain how to play using the vocabulary from our recent sport activity. They should keep their explanation relatively simple (what equipment is needed, how many players, etc.) and bring visual aids (photos for more involved sports or if their sport were soccer, a soccer ball).

Tarea: complete writing description of sport and bring visual aids on Thursday. Students will have a few minutes at the beginning of class to prepare presentation with their group and then will present to class.

Students conjugated a verb in each of the categories for stem-changing verbs for do now activity. We are collecting students do now activities from the last few weeks on flashcards so that students will have them to study.

(e:ie) like querer
(o:ue) like poder
(e:i) like pedir

As a class, we started talking about our new unit: ocio (leisure). Students shared various free time activities they like to do. We started focusing on one cagegory, deportes (sports). In pairs, students received the attached worksheet where they were to identify the sports described. Went over answers after students had 25 minutes to work.

Tarea: study for review exam. On Thursday we will spend some time preparing before students will take test.