Summer - Spanish 1

¡Feliz verano a toodos!

I hope your summer is and continues to be a good one.

As I promised, here are some helpful tips for staying fresh with vocab. and concepts from first year, as you ready yourselves for 2nd year in about 8 weeks. I know, a long time, but don't let the opportunity pass you by!

First off, if you are traveling abroad this summer to a Spanish-speaking country for more than 5 days, ¡qué suerte! You have the chance to experience the language in many forms, and at different speeds. It's like being in a foreign-language classroom, only a lot more hours a day, and way more fun than any Spanish teacher could make it!

For the rest of us, stuck here in the greater 48, we need to make do with what we have here to maintain the level of proficiency we've gained so far. Lucky for us, we're in the information age. What that means is that we have access to a lot of educational resources that, previously, we had to travel to, or look up in obscure texts to find. A lot of language experience is at our fingertips. If we have the will, technology can help us find the way to a successful 2nd year.

So, let's start with the basics:

1) YOUR NOTEBOOKS: It never hurts to re-visit those vocab. lists / grammar notes pages for review. I recommend you keep your notebooks going forward into next year, as there might be concepts that we go over again entirely. Keep your notebook, and just copy and paste instead of re-writing.

2) YOUR TEXTBOOK: Sure, you turned in the physical copy, but the online version has vocab lists, grammar points, and even stuff about different countries we didn't even have time to cover last year. Go to http://www. vhlcentral.com, type in your passcode in all capital letters, and away you go!

3) QUIZLET: http://www.quizlet.com is probably the easiest and most useful flashcard-oriented site. It prompts you to generate lists, so you can focus on the words (or types of words) that gave you the most trouble in 1st year. Or, type "quizlet descubre 1" in a google search box, and various sites with practice lists will pop up for your perusal.

4) CONJUGUEMOS: http://www.conjuguemos.com is another good memory-based learning site, with several fun games. Typing in "conjuguemos descubre 1" should yield you positive results there. Unlike quizlet, however (which is free), conjuguemos has a fee for creating your own content.

More to come in future blog posts! Stay tuned!

HW for 6/14

Spanish 1:   continue on research / prep for food final

multiple choice final Friday!

Spanish 2:   use one or both of the given verb pairs in 3 sentences for each.

one must have the verb in the INDICATIVE, another in the INFINITIVE, and a 3rd in the SUBJUNCTIVE. Tenses are up to you.

Refer to p. 309 (summary of each of the moods) for help in remembering the rules on each mood.

HW for 6/12

Spanish 1:    Continue research on dish/country of origin - helpful vocab. list coming tomorrow -


Spanish 2 - Translate paragraph into English - practice multiple choice part of the final tomorrow in class

HW due 6/5

Spanish 1:     Study comparative / superlative forms - Quiz Wed. 


Spanish 2:     Change five (5) of the "si..." clauses from last night's HW to a different form.
                       For example:

                      

  If I sell the house, they’re going to buy it. (present tense/ir+a+inf.)

Si vendo la casa, la van a comprar. 

 

        Change the verbs to create a different kind of "si..." clause:

         If I sold the house, they'd buy it. 

         Si vendiera la casa, la comprarían. 
       

For 6/4

Spanish 1:

No written HW...notebook checks

Spanish 2:

"If..." clauses worksheet

HW due Friday 6/1

Spanish 1 -

p. 272: read and make 3 "follow-up" questions to the reading. I.E., you've learned about the subject by reading it...now, what more are you curious about, that's related to the article's subject, but NOT included within?

p. 287: part 3 (ODDS only) - make one (1) superlative sentence for each one. Which/who of the three things in each one is the _________est?

Spanish 2: Write three "IF...I WOULD" statements using the PAST SUBJUNCTIVE and the CONDITIONAL forms.

Also: write IF...statements using the present tense forms discussed in class Thursday. Make 2 example sentences for each of the 3 forms (A total of 6 sentences).  

HW due 5/25

Spanish 1 - No new written HW...only make sure your notebooks are ready for submission at the end of class. I will be looking for:

• notes on grammar/vocab. lessons
• evidence of correction on written activities
• organization of sections (HW, warmup, notes and/or notes+vocab)

Spanish 2 -

Escoja (choose) una película (preferiblemente una que sabes muy bien).

Si pudieras (if you could), ¿cómo cambiarías la película?

Escriban un mínimo de 5 frases, usando el CONDICIONAL en cada frase, diciendo cómo cabiarías unas partes especificas.

Ejemplode una frase: "Star Wars"

En la primera parte, yo incluiría más información de los tíos de Luke Skywalker. (Por eso, cuando los tíos mueren, la transformación heróico de Luke Skywalker sería [me parecería] más significante.)