Buenos días, ¿Cómo estás?

Today in BEGINNER's Spanish we continued practicing our numbers and colors.

We quickly covered how to tell time: es la una (it is one o'clock), son las dos (it is two o'clock), son las tres (it is three o'clock), and so on. We learned new adjectives such as grande (big), pequeño (small) and bonito (beautiful), as well as some new names for animals: el burro (donkey), el camello (camel), el caballo (horse), el lobo (wolf) and el dragón (dragon).

Next week we will continue with introductions and greetings: Buenos días (Good morning/Good day/Hello), buenas tardes (Good afternoon/Good evening), buenas noches (Good evening/Good night), ¿Cómo estás? (How are you?), etc.

Please go over pages 1 and 3 in our book (Rose Thomas) and watch the two videos below in preparation for class. You will notice that in the video by Sr. Howard he uses new words and expressions such as enfermo (sick) or Me duele (It hurst) followed by body parts (eg. Me duele el brazo: my arm hurts, etc.). They also use ¿Por qué? (Why).

It is important you come prepared so we can put a puppet show together during class. We will have a dragon (el dragón), a butterfly (la mariposa), a witch (la bruja), a boy (el niño) and maybe a few more characters. ¡Hasta el martes! See you on Tuesday!

VIDEO: Muzzi: Buenos días.




VIDEO:  Sr. Howard: ¿Cómo estás?




Today in INTERMEDIATE Spanish we talked about Lacrosse, numbers and AR ending verbs. Please go over page 36 in you book (Cynthia Downs), finish your sentences for your presentations and watch the video below to learn more about conjugations in the present tense (Yes, D and J, I know it is about six minutes long, but please watch it a couple of times, if you could, to reinforced all that we have covered in class today).

VIDEO: Practiquemos: Verb Conjugations



¡Hasta el martes!

Los números/Numbers

Today we explored numbers in both of our classes.

BEGINNERS:

Beginners continued practicing colors and we learned some basic cardinal numbers (1-12).

Please have your students practice numbers 1-15 (or if they are very ambitious, go ahead and have them learn up to 20). You can do this by watching the videos below, using this interactive link, or simply going over page 9 in your activity book (Rose Thomas).

Notice that after 15, numbers 16-19 are a combination of previously learned numbers with minor spelling variations: 16 = 10 y (and) 6 (dieciséis), 17 = 10 y (and) 7 (diecisiete) and so on.


VIDEO: 1-10 Rosita (Sesame Street)




VIDEO: 1-10 Doki (Discovery Kids)




VIDEO: 1-20 (Howcast):  typo: 19 should be diecinueve instead of diecenueve!




INTERMEDIATE SPANISH

Today some forgot their composition while others forgot their display items (or both).
I know however, that you are all going to be "super-ready" for class next time, right?

Please, go over numbers 1-100 at this site. You already know those numbers. Please practice to improve your pronunciation.

Also, go over page 12 in your activity book (Cynthia Downs) and watch the video below. Please pay attention to irregular: quinientos, setecientos and novecientos.

VIDEO: Numbers 100-1000



¡Hasta el martes!

Hola

Hola, and welcome to a new year at HLACNY Academy!

Today in INTERMEDIATE SPANISH we talked about what we did this summer (el verano). Among other topics, we covered Lacrosse and Legend of Zelda. We learned about the verb  to play (JUGAR)


Please come prepared to next class with a brief composition (about 10 sentences) describing what tools you use for your favorite activity: eg. Lacrosse sticks, 3DS games and player, etc. Use a dictionary to find the ten most important terms or attributes to describe the objects you bring to class madera: wood, pantalla: screen, etc.

Ejemplos:

El palo/bastón de lacrosse es largo y de madera (The lacrosse stick is long and made out of wood)
Juego la "Legend of Zelda" en mi pantalla  (I play Legend of Zelda in my screen)

Please bring some samples of what you use in the games you play for your presentation.

¡Gracias y hasta el martes!

Today in BEGINNER'S SPANISH we learned how to introduce ourselves:

¿Cómo te llamas? What is your name?
Me llamo... My name is...

¿Cómo se llama? What is his/her name?
Se llama... His/Her name is...

Please watch the video below to reinforce what we learned (the video ends with Mucho gusto, Marta and Igualmente: Pleased to meet you, Marta and The pleasure is mine)


VIDEO: ¿Cómo te llamas?




We also used colors to describe some stuffed animals: eg el perro es negro (the dog is black) or el pato es rojo y anaranjado (the duck is red and orange). Please have your students go over the list of colors we completed in class. You can visit this interactive site for practice. You can also watch the video below.

VIDEO: Colores en español



Thanks, and see you next week!