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!

Martes, 21 de enero: Marionetas

Hola

Today we reviewed noun-adjective agreement (number and gender) and I was very pleased to see how well prepared everybody was. For our next couple of classes we will continue practicing that concept.

Next Tuesday we are going to start working on a little play with puppets (las marionetas). We will work in small groups and if we get some good stories, we may even perform during our spring festival!

For starters, I would like for you to create some basic list of sentences (five to seven) that your puppets may say:

Hello, my name is.... and I am a .... (frog, rabbit, dragon, rat, butterfly, dog) Please looks those words up in a dictionary.
I am from....(Guatemala, Syracuse, Nueva York)
I am  (soy)....(big, small, tall, short, green, blue, etc.)
I am (soy) a (un/una)....(teacher, doctor, firefighter, etc.)
I am (estoy)...(happy, sad, tired, sick) Remember Sr. Howard?
I like....(remember the prince who disliked everything?)
I want ... (remember our video with the little Chihuahua dog?)
Good Bye!

And of course, The end (El fin).

PLEASE REMEMBER:

Depending on the gender of your puppet the adjectives will have to agree in gender (masculine or feminine) with the noun:

Hola, me llamo Roberto y soy guapo (handsome)
Hola, me llamo Roberta y soy guapa (beautiful)

Also, depending on the number of puppets described, the adjectives may also need to agree in number (as well as gender) with the nouns they are referring to:

Hola, somos Roberto y Julio y somos mexicanos
Hola, somos Roberta y Julia y somos mexicanas
Hola, somos Roberto y Julia y somos mexicanos (masculine + feminine = masculine)


Thanks and see you on Tuesday/Gracias y hasta el martes.