verbos

Logan high intermediates: Costa Rica y verbos (2/12/13)

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Class Activities: 

Students arrived and translated sentences practicing all of our verb conjugations:

  1. I used to go to the mountains most weekends.
  2. He cooked dinner last night.
  3. We're going to swim this weekend.
  4. I haven't read that book.
  5. They like to travel.
  6. We work hard in class.
  7. When I was 10, I had imaginary friends.
  8. Where arey ou going to go?

We went over translations and students said what verb type each sentence was.

We reviewed this/these/that/those which were a bit confusing for students in the sentences above.

Each class, to increase vocabulary I'm going to put out some objects students may or may not know. What they don't know they should write in their diccionario personal.
* eraser
* ruler
* cell phone
* tape
* speaker
* key
* keychain

We went over 10 of the most common verbs and students wrote down those they didn't know:
* aceptar
* permitir
* creer
* romper
* cambiar
* traer
* preguntar
* pedir y tomar prestado (to lend/to borrow)

We listened to part of this video about Costa Rica and students answered some questions about the video.

Tarea: no hay. We will have class on Thursday despite Expo.

Class topics: 
verbos
Costa Rica
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Yoga y el cuerpo humano

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Class Goals: 

Students answered the following questions for their do now activity.
¿Qué piensas de tu progreso durante el primer cuarto?
¿Qué sabes de yoga?

Students had a few minutes to discuss their role play and then presented it to the group. Role plays included various scenarios related to food (in a restaurant, in the supermarket, at a farmer's market, on a Food Network Latino program).

Our next brief unit is related to parts of the body and yoga. Most students already know parts of the body, but will learn about different verbs related to the body (inhale, exhale, stand up, sit down, stretch, bring together). The goals of this unit are to practice listening comprehension and increase student vocabulary.

We briefly reviewed parts of body (below):

Cabeza
rodilla
cuello
boca
dientes
labios
hombros
brazos
piernas
rodillas
codos
dedos
dedos del pie
pie
espalda

We then went over some basic verbs we will use this unit and students visually represented the word/verb (worksheet attached).

I demonstrated one pose, using vocabulary from the attached sheet. Each student was given a yoga pose that they have to explain the the group next class. Positions include:
* Triángulo (triangle)
* cobra
* árbol (tree)
* águila (eagle)
* el perro cara abajo (downward facing dog)
* langosta/saltamontes (grasshopper)
* montaña (mountain)
* puente (bridge)
* paloma (pigeon)
* tortuga (turtle)
* pavo real (peacock)
* rana (frog)
Tarea: look up their position online and using attached vocabulary explain and demonstrate it to the group. They may want to look them up by their English names to make sure they understand the pose.

Class topics: 
partes del cuerpo
verbos
Fluency level: 
Intermediate
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