Gail Pennington

Speaking portion of Final Exam

Aquí están las preguntas para el examen oral:  Download Examen Final - ORAL

El lunes --hay que escribir

Writing portion of Final Exam

Be prepared to write a 75-word essay (about 10 sentences) in Spanish.  You may choose the topic.  You might write on La Misma Luna, or Destinos,  or Extra—or write about your life. You may choose your verb tenses.

Get ready for the Final Exam!

Here is your study guide:

Download GP UPDATEDStudy Guide III- Final

Also I recommend the following:  Read over your Pobre Ana chapters, and review what you know about Destinos.  You will need to especially look over the first two chapters of your textbook, and remember that you need to bring both the textbook and the workbook to class from now on. 

Martes, 14 de abril

We worked on the difference between the imperfect tense and the preterite tense today, reading the sample paragraphs in the preterite-imperfect packet, and marking the imperfect and preterite verbs.  Tomorrow we will finish with a graded activity.  We also watched episode 15 of Destinos.

Tarea:  Leer el trabalenguas (Erre con erre, cigarro...) a alguien de tu familia.  Trae la carta firmada por esa persona a clase mañana. 

Miércoles, 1 de abril

For those of you who are working on a Power Point presentation at home, here is a chart with the codes for making accent marks:

Download ALT codes for Spanish symbols

Please save PowerPoint files in a format of an earlier program--not 2007.  You won't be able to open a more recent program on my computer. The Media Center can help you change the file if you need to.

Also, please remember that you CAN'T email the file to yourself.  You need to bring it in a flashdrive. The Media Center checks out flashdrives to students for short-term use.

martes, 31 de marzo

We have been working on preterite and imperfect tenses to express the past in Spanish.  We finished the preterite section of the packet today, and you should read the example paragraphs on the next to last page as a homework assignment. 

We will prepare a personal presentation in class tomorrow, to be presented on Thursday or Friday. I am attaching the files of the description and the requirements.  Download Timeline Project- Midterm Download Requisitos- Timeline III  You can write about yourself or any real or invented person--the important part is to have 20 grammatically correct sentences using past, present, and near future.  You may be flexible in the distribution of tenses (using 8 or 9 in past and a few more in present), as long as your grammar and spelling are correct.  Remember that you will need to be able to read and pronounce anything that you write. Especially be prepared to say dates in Spanish.

If you have questions about this, please email me.

martes, 17 de marzo

Mensaje importante: La hoja de vocabulario no se entrega mañana.  Se entrega el viernes.             Hoy trabajamos con los mandatos informales.  Aquí hay un sitio para practicar:

http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/informcomm1.htm

Aquí están los mandatos irregulares:

http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/irregtucomm.htm el viernes.

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lunes, 9 de marzo

Today we read Así se dice and did exercise 20 on page 44. Then students wrote a letter to Querido Consejero Corazón, asking for advice about a problem.  The problem can be real or invented, serious or funny, at least 5 sentences long and with enough detail for everyone to understand.  We will read them and write advice for them in class tomorrow.

You need to have these workbook pages done: p. 11, #4;  p. 12, all; and p. 13, all.

miércoles, 25 de febrero

Terminar:  Cuaderno

p. 3, #5
p. 5, #9
p.7, #14
p. 8 todo
p. 9 todo                      
Examen mañana, que incluye los verbos en el presente, los verbos que cambian, y los verbos en el tiempo del pretérito.  También incluye saber y conocer. y la lista de los verbos de repaso, 1 - 100.

viernes, 20 de febrero

We have worked this week with verbs, especially the preterite tense. Be sure to have your verb folder with the timeline for Monday.  We have also worked with personal descriptions.  We watched some of the documentary Buena Vista Social Club, and will continue talking about Cuban music next week.  Don't forget to work on the pink Vocabulary page, which is due Wednesday. Also don't forget to study the last verbs on the review list (76-100). Good work on the translation of the poem by Pablo Neruda!