Thursday, January 28, 2016

Para el 1 y 2 de febrero

#2 - practica con las formas negativas de los mandatos informales

Ej:
 Don't copy me!          No me copies!
 Don't lie!                    No mientes!
 Don't eat my burrito! No comas mi burrito!

para el 28 y 29 #1

#1 - practica con los mandatos (informal - tu) and the irregular forms

Telling someone (tu) what to do.
Ej:
Eat your vegetables!     Come tus verduras!
Do your homework!     Haz tu tarea!
Work harder!                Trabaja mas duro!

Friday, January 8, 2016

No homework, just study for finals!

You will all get a copy of this in class, but in case you did not have class today and you want to get started this weekend...

EL EXAMEN FINAL:  SEMESTRE 1 (2015-16)

ALL questions are multiple choice scantron.  There are several types of questions:
v  Comparisons
v  Fill in the blank
v  Verb conjugations
v  Which word does not belong?
v  Answer questions

In order to study…
v  review your materials from class (your syllabus warned you to hang on to your class materials, if you need materials check the 5-6 box, then talk to a classmate if there aren’t any left)
v  do practice exercises on online Spanish websites, such as studyspanish.com (do a web search for a grammar topic and look for practice quizzes)
v  see Day of the Dead PPTs on the blog
v  watch videos listed below

Vocabulario:
·         Animals
o   Habitat
o   Food
o   Body parts
o   Descriptions
o   Questions
·         Shapes
·         Sequencing words
·         Summer
·         Time phrases in the past
o   ____ pasado
o   hace ____ (tiempo)
·         Letter writing
o   Opening and closing a letter
·         Technology
·         Day of the Dead/Halloween
·         Thanksgiving
Gramática:
·         Verbs like gustar
o   Past
o   Present
o   Indirect object pronouns used with them
·         Comparisons
o   Tan + adj. + como
o   Verbo + tanto como
o   Noun + tanto como + noun
o   Más / menos + adj. + que
o   Mejor / peor
·         Stem-change verbs
o   Past (oàu, eài)  *not for –AR verbs, floor verbs
o   Present (oàue, eàie, eài), boot verbs
·         Direct objects
o   The person / thing receiving the action (NOT doing) (
·         Reflexive verbs:  see the “Reflex your verby” song on YouTube
o   Past
o   Present
·         Preterite tense
o   Irregular + spelling change verbs
o   Reflexive verbs
o   With direct objects
o   With verbs like gustar
·         Future tense
o   IR + a + verb in infinitive verb
·         Telling time
·         Demonstratives
o   This, that, these, those (way over there)
Cultura:
·         Day of the Dead:  see the PPTs in the blog from DDM
·         La Bamba 
o   the song and information about it
·         Los chapulines:  watch the videos from class!
o   Basic information


Tutorial today

I realized that the language department decided to skip our meeting and hold tutorial today.  If you need help or need to show me anything, come on in!

FYI, I will not be here next week Thurs when we have tutorial.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016