November 19 and 20

There will be a sub on these two days. You are to complete a packet of exercises that cover AR verb conjugation, reading comprehension using weather phrases, and questions and writing assignment about the Hispanic heritage of Texas. Toward the end of the class, you are to go to the LAB and pull up my folder in Sony content. Using the "Answers" file you can correct your answers on the first two pages of the packet. You are to turn in the packet before you leave.

Your homework: enjoy your time with your family!

November 13 and 14

LAB:  Vocabulary review on Quizlet.com: El Tiempo / AR Infinitives / Los Animales

Oral exercises/ conversation in class as followup to LAB practices.

                                                                            

November 9 and 12

New Material: Weather Phrases
   Copy from the board (or classmate, if absent) the new list of weather words. We are going to use these words in a Performance Assessment after Thanksgiving , creating a presentation as a weather forecaster.

Review of steps in verb conjugation. "Conjugation Buffet": Worksheet divided into four four parts increasing in difficulty. We put these on the board for additional discussion.

?Quien es este jugador de futbol?                                                                                

November 7 and 8

New vocabulary:

• jugar al baloncesto /al basquetbol
• jugar al futbol
• jugar al tenis
• jugar al golf
• correr
• nadar
• jugar a los bolos
• jugar al hocki
• jugar al futbol americano
• jugar al volibol

Culture:

•  what is a hat trick?
• what is a rainbow kick
• what is a bicycle kick?
• 25 minutes of the film "Victory" with Pele, considered by most the greatest soccer player; this clip even demonstrates the mob behavior 

November 5 and 6

Infinitives: pages 82 and 94 in your text: copy the these with their translations to English. Today we learned:

• to find the stem of each of these
• to conjugate these regular -AR, -ER and IR verbs in the first, second and third persons singular and plural
• how to say we like or do not like to do the things (no me gusta leer novelas but me gusta ir al cine). In other words, when I like is followed by an infinitive the singular form of gustar is used.
• how to say I like to play "insert name of sport"/ there fore we also learned new vocab for different sports/ page 83.

Homework : exercises 26, 27 and 28 in this chapter (3).

Note: the conjugation /endings chart is on 98 in the text, but we made our own (endins) key to accompany our "windows"

November 1 and 2

Culture Day / Finishing Unit on Puerto Rico

• the coqui /national symbol of Puerto Rico
• Roberto Clemente / national hero of Puerto Rico / opened the door for Hispanics in professional baseball
• The Day of the Dead/ Celebrated on All Soul's Day/ Catholic Celebration that assimilates many Aztec customs and beliefs

There are handouts on all of these for the culture section in your folders.Remember this was a short day!
Watch the following: