Monday, February 4, 2019

Spanish 3

Spanish 3 students are beginning  the Literature Unit. They will read The following:
    How the Condor loss its feathers
    A letter to God
    Violeta and her expressions
     The Change

Poetry
     Plegatia Negra by Rafael Ramos Bello
     El Parque by Elizabeth Millan
     Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
     To My Friend by Elizabeth Millan
     Lo Fatal by Rene Perez

At the end they will write their own Poem

For each reading they will have, they will do a report  that will include the following
     listing of all cognates and meaning
     listing of all verbs and meaning
     Complete translation of the reading (most of the translation can be done in class)
     A brief paragraph telling their opinion of the reading( like, don't like it and why; what they would      do differently
    The report must be typed and turn in in a report folder. They will get 3 quiz grades for each part          one test grade for the translation



Spanish 2 students are about done with Unit 2, Lesson 2. They will be testing Friday, Feb.8

After that they will begin Unit 3, lesson 1. In this lesson they will learn:
     to talk about going shopping
     clothing fit and fashion
     where to shop
     express preference and opinion
     Other  shopping expressions

Their Grammar will be:
     present tense of irregular verbs
     pronouns after prepositions

The suggested testing is as follow although it may change depending on how efficiently we can move through the material
    Quiz # 1: vocabulary on Fe, 14
     Test: art project to be done while on the winter weekend, Each student must create an add for his/ hes store, advertising a sale. They will have the requirements  on page 139 of the teacher's book and may take a picture for them to keep and follow. The project is due Wed. Feb 20, the day we return from the winter weekend.
     Quiz 2 on Irregular verbs 2/21
     Quiz on Pronouns and prepositions Feb. 25
     Lesson Test Feb. 26

Parent please, you will help your student so much if you make sure they study what we do in class every night. They must review and make flash cards to help themselves remember the needed material. Thank you very much.




Spanish One

Happy Day here at THA. Sra. Young's Spanish one students are beginning Unit 3, Lesson 1. In this Lesson the students will learn to talk about foods they like and don't like. They will also talk about their traditional foods and compare with the food of Puerto Rico which is the culture for this unit.
They will use the verbs "to like" (gustar) and  "to love" which is encantar.
 For grammar, they will also learn to conjugate verbs ending in -er and -ir in the present tense.

Their assessment will be normal quizzes (not announced) because they are not studying at home like they should.

Thursday, Feb. 7 they will have a quiz using gustar and encantar

Please, parents make sure your student reviews at home what we did in class and uses flash cards for vocabulary and verb forms. Most are not doing this at home. If they tell you they don't have homework, studying is their homework. Thank you very much.

Friday, January 11, 2019

Spanish I Happy New Year

My Spanish I students have started the year learning about how to tell the location of things, places and people.With the same concept, they will be able to talk about how the feel using the same verb (estar) and adjective of feelings. In this lesson they will also learn to talk about  going places and the conjugations of the verb "ir" , which means to go. The vocabulary deals with places in the school, items in the classroom, adjectives of feelings and other necessary vocabulary needed in order  to use the corresponding Grammar.

Spanish 2 --- Happy New Year from Sra. Young

Spanish 2 students are continuing with the simple past tense called the Preterit. They have to  learn how to conjugate these verbs in the the preterit tense and be able to speak about the past.

The next unit will be about reflexive verbs. These are verbs which action reflect on the person doing the action; in other words,  the person does the action for himself or herself.

They will have an assessment telling their morning / day routine.

Spanish 3/ 1/11

Good morning and Happy New Year from Sra. Young

In my Spanish 3 classes we started the year with the Present Progressive Tense with an inclination
on the new vocabulary which is about what they are doing now. They will be assessed by looking at 2 pictures and telling that is going on on the pictures.

The next Unit will be talking in the future tense. They will write an essay about their future plans and what they want to be in the future,


Tuesday, December 11, 2018

From Sra. Young

My Spanish 3 - B

This class has have to reviewed some of the materials from Sp 1 in order to remember needed concepts for level three. We have covered: verb tenses such as present tense of -ar, -er, and -ir, preterite, imperfect, command forms of you, you formal and you all. We also covered the simple future tense using the verb ir + a+ infinitive to talk about what we are going to do.  We have included the regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs as part or the requirement.

Different vocabulary as: food, recipes, drinks, adjectives, subject verb agreement, command placement with one and two verbs in the same sentence, basic Spanish One grammar like definite/ indefinite articles, subject pronouns, el verbo ser, estar, tener, querer, and many more.

When we comeback in January, we will be starting chapter 5 and roll along to chapter 8 followed by painters, music and related arts. Have a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.