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Repaso: números, pronombres, artículos

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

There were five numbers written in Spanish on the board that students had to identify.
1. Ciento noventa y nueve.
2. Dos mil doce.
3. Quinientos treinta y ocho.
4. Setecientos setenta y uno.
5. Mil novecientos noventa y tres.

We went over the numbers as a group and generally reviewed numbers (starting by tens from 20 and then by hundreds to a thousand).

One student was awarded a prize for completing the largest number of do now activities. The person with the most do now activities from now to the end of the year will get a prize our last class. We spent a few minutes organizing our folders.

We are going to spend several classes reviewing concepts that students have learned in the past. Students took notes. Review included:
* masculine/feminine articles, rules for words that are masculine/feminine
* possessive pronouns
* personal pronouns

Tarea: study what we reviewed today: numbers, rules for masc/feminine articles, possessive pronouns, personal pronouns.

Fluency level: 
Beginner

Historias: verbos irregulares y refranes 2/28/12

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed two pages of a "quiz" about preterite/imperfect conjugations. We went over answers as a class.

There are several common irregular verbs in the preterite that students need to know. Here are the irregular preterite conjugations. We focused on: tener, poder, poner, venir, ser, estar, decir.

We learned several refranes/dichos (sayings) en español:
* Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona queda.
* Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres.
* El ave temprano atrapa el lombriz.

Here are several Spanish sayings and their translations.

Tarea: students are to memorize irregular preterite conjugations (above) and chose a partner and refran/dicho that they want to write a story about. We will be writing the story on Thursday so they just need to identify the refrain.

Class topics: 
pretérito
refranes
imperfecto
irregulares
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Las fiestas

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Talk about various traditions students have for the various holidays starting in October.

Students receive attached sheet with words related to various holidays around the end of the year. In pairs, students write or draw a line from the símbolos column to the appropriate fiesta.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Comprensión auditiva: animales

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Estudiantes reciben el documento adjunto que tiene fotos de varios animales. Pregunta si alguien sabe los nombres de los animales antes de escuchar la audición, o pideles que individualmente escriben los nombres bajo la columna animal. Preguntales varias cosas de animales, preparándoles para la audición:
¿Dónde vive el perro? ¿En la granja, en la casa, en el bosque, en el zoológico, en el parque, en el océano?

Diles que van a escuchar una persona hablando de varios animales. La meta más importante es escribir el nombre del animal, y la meta segundaria es escribir cualquier otra más información que entendieron. Escucha dos veces la audición y repasar en grupo grande los nombres de los animales y otra información que escucharon.

Class topics: 
animales
audiciones
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

How to be a good communicator: ESL

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Talk about what it means to be a good communicator.

What are specific things a person can do to be a good communicator?
* speak loud enough for the person to hear
* speak clearly (getting rid of mumbling and filler words -- like, you know, you know what I'm saying, um).
* be concise. The more someone speaks the less others listen.
* speak at a good pace. If a person speaks quickly using filler words, their message is much less clear and effective than someone speaking slowly, choosing their words carefully and not using filler words.

Students each get a task that they have to explain to the group how to do using the above communication recommendations. Use words like, first, then, next, finally.

  • How to plan a vacation
  • How to make coffee
  • How to make a paper airplane
  • How to send an email
  • How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  • How to parallel park
  • How to cook your favorite dish
  • How to get to work from your house
Class topics: 
commands
ESL
communication
how to
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Before School: La clima (2/17)

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Class Activities: 

-Students brought in their completed Climate Reports.
-Students practiced conversation with one another.
-Each student presented their Climate Report to the rest of the class.
-If you were not in class, please see me about turning in your report and presenting after break.

Class topics: 
climate
Fluency level: 
Beginner

2nd Period Matrix- 2/15

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-We reviewed the vocabulary we learned for the Carnival festival.
-Students finished making their Carnival masks, and I awarded prizes for the Funniest, Best, and Most Interesting.
-Students learned a traditional Brazilian dance, the samba. I taught them motions to a particular samba song that I know.
-We played a “Toss the Bead Necklace” game to practice with Carnival vocabulary.

Class topics: 
festivals
Fluency level: 
Beginner

El mundo de los negocios: repaso

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and shared their topic for EXPO and one interesting thing they've learned. Students went around and asked each other about their topic and then we went over it as a group.

We played a review game where all of the words from our business unit were on the board. I described a word and students had to pick it out.

Tarea: no hay. Since students are putting the majority of their energy in EXPO this week there is no homework but their WILL be class Friday.

Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before School: Por el telefono (2/15)

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students reviewed weather vocabulary and practiced conversation with one another.
-We discussed the climate report, which is due on Friday. I gave the students some useful vocabulary for creating their report: verano=summer, otoño=fall, invierno=winter, primavera=spring, estaciones=seasons, Es seco=It's dry, Hay humeda=It's humid, todo el año=year-round, reportaje de clima=climate report
-Students reviews translating numbers into Spanish. In partners, they practiced reading phone numbers aloud to one another.
-Homework is to complete the Climate Report.

Class topics: 
climate
phone numbers
Fluency level: 
Beginner

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