¡Feliz Navidad!

How do we celebrate Christmas in Spain? What is the typical christmas treat?

Check this presentation to learn evertything about Christimas in Spain.

Navidad en España

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Christmas vocabulary

Multiple choice quiz



Enjoy the holidays! ¡Feliz Navidad!

Ir - To go: Conjugation and Contractions.

The verb IR is one of the Spanish irregular verbs, let’s learn its conjugation.

Ir medios lugares

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More info on contractions AL and DEL

Ir Conjugation

Means of transport concentration

Contractions rags to riches

Contractions pop-ups

Contractions quiz

Contractions more practise

Christmas in Mexico - Las Posadas

We are going to do a web activity to know more about this Mexican tradition.

Posadas 1

Search for the following information:

1. What do Las Posadas commemorate?
2. When do they begin?
3. How do Posadas traditionally end?
4. How long do the Posadas last? Why?


More Christmas traditions

5. When are Nacimientos set up?
6. What are pastorelas?
7. What did they originate?
8. What appearances can try to convince shepherds of the way they should take?
9. What are villancicos?
10. What does La Nochebuena mean?
11. What happens on that night?
12. What does Día de Reyes mean?
13. When do children get their gifts?
14. Who bring the gifts?

Posadas 2
15. What does posada mean in English?
16. Who leads the procession?
17. What do the participants carry as they go?
18. What is the traditional shape for the piñata during Christmas?

Ser or Estar, That is the Question...

Both verbs mean “to be” but when do we use each?

How you feel and where you are, that is when you use ESTAR.
What you do and where you're from, is when you use the other one (SER).

Serestar

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Columns.

Matching and memory game.

Rags to riches.

Pick the right verb.

Fill in the blanks.

Expressing feelings.

Irregular -AR verbs: Ir, Dar, Estar.

These verbs have an irregular conjugation for the "yo form" in the present tense, the ending is -oy.

The rest of the subjects take the same endings as the AR verbs in the present tense.

Ir, dar, estar.

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Challenge Board

Concentrate and Conjugate

Fill in the Blanks

Columns

Quiz

Spanish-speaking Countries

Take a look at the countries where Spanish is spoken.

Spanish-speaking countries

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Now, listen to this song and try to get the names of some of these countries.
300 kilos, 300 million people who speaks Spanish around the World!

"300 Kilos" Los Coyotes

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Barcelona

We watched the documentary Europe to the Max: Barcelona in class and we learned a lot about the city, tourist attractions, art and customes.

Europe to the Max: Barcelona

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Día de Acción de Gracias - Thanksgiving Day

¡Feliz día de Acción de Gracias!

Vocabulary

Memory game


Wordsearch

Click-n-Match

Introductions

Send a message to introduce yourself to the blog and get some extra credit!

Include the following in your comment:

• SPANISH 1.
  

Using verb SER and the vocabulary you have learned:

1. Who you are
2. Where you are from
3. Description of your appearance and personality
4. Where you attend school
   
5. Your favourite subject (mi asignatura preferida)
   
6. Who is one of your best friend (mi mejor amigo / a)
7. Description of her / his appearance and personality

Remember to use linking words like:

Además (also), también (also), pero (but), y (and).

• SPANISH 2.

Using verb SER.

1. Who you are
2. Where you are from
3. Description of your appearance and personality

Using verb GUSTAR

1. What you like
2. What you don’t like

Using verb IR

1. Where you usually go at weekends (los fines de semana, yo voy a...)
   
2. Where you usually go for a vacation (Yo voy de vacaciones a...)
   

Remember to use linking words like:

Además (also), también (also), pero (but), y (and).

The Orphanage and The Corpse Bride

Los alumnos de Español 2 watched the Spanish movie "El Orfanato" during the Halloween week.

It is a very scare movie with some jumpy scenes...



Extra credit

Te gusta la película (movie)? ¿Por qué?
Say what you like most from the movie, characters (los personajes), plot (el argumento), script (el guión)...

Take a Trivia Quiz



Also, los alumnos de Español 1 watched “La novia cadáver” in class.

In the movie, The Land of the Living is grey and drab whereas the Land of the Dead is colourful and crazy.

Extra Credit

¿Cómo es La Novia Cadáver? ¿Cómo son el Señor y la Señora Everglot?

Describe them in complete sentences, using some adjectives you know.

Present tense of -AR verbs

There are three groups of verbs in Spanish: those ending in AR, those ending in ER and those ending in IR.

We are going to learn how to conjugate the present tense of the first group, the AR verbs.

First, you have to drop the ending of the infinitive (drop -AR) and then, add the endings for each subject.


Check this video and you will understand better what we are talking about...

Match the endings

Jeopardy

Crossword

Battleship

School supplies and clothing

Click on the images to listen to the vocabulary and play some games.


Review with flashcards
Memory game
Battleship
Jeopardy



Memory game
Jeopardy
Quiz

Los Colores

Click on the image to listen to the colors in Spanish.

¿De qué color es?

Memory game

Multiple choice

Word search

Beenny´s game

El Día de los Muertos

El Día de los muertos se celebra el 1 y el 2 de noviembre.

For Mexicans, death is another stage of life; it is not something we have to fear. Even though their loved ones left for the earth, their souls will remain here forever.

Day of the Dead is a funny and colourful celebration, where people honour and remember their beloved relatives who passed away.

Watch this video and leave your comment.



Extra Credit:

What do you think about this celebration?

¿Cómo es el Día de los muertos? Use some adjectives you already know.

¿Te gusta el Día de los muertos? ¿Por qué?

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Skeleton project

Day of the Dead web activity

Ofrendas activities

Spanish II - All About Me Project

Los alumnos de Español 2 talked about their likes and dislikes and they also created an artwork for this project.

Jarabe de Palo - Bonito

Todo me parece bonito - Everything looks beautiful to me.

The verb "parecer" follows the same pattern as "gustar"

Listen to the song and fill in the gaps.

Bonito - Jarabe de palo

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Likes and Dislikes

To say we like something in Spanish, we use the verb GUSTAR.

The structure of the sentence is different than in English, it is backwards, we could translate it literally as “something is pleasant to me”. Ejemplo: Me gusta el tenis (Tenis is pleasant to me), Me gustan los gatos (Cats are pleasant to me).

For the negative sentence, just write “no” at the beginning of the sentence. Ejemplo: No me gustan las zanahorias (I don’t like carrots).

Use GUSTA when:

•the thing you like is an action: Me gusta montar a caballo (I like riding horses)
•the thing you like is singular: Me gusta mucho el café (I like coffee very much)

Use GUSTAN when:

•the thing you like is plural: Me gustan los gatos.


Likes and dislikes

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Gustar rags to riches
Gustar matching
Gustar indirect object pronouns
Gustar expressions

Extra Credit

Write 10 sentences to talk about your likes and dislikes. Use interesa, aburre, gusta and don´t forget articles with nouns, not with verbs!

How to find words in a dictionary

When searching words for one of our assignments, you shouldn´t use automatic translators.

Software translators are far from natural language. A machine won’t distinguish between the various senses of the same word; if you use online translators, your text will be scrambled and it may not have much sense.

We are going to learn how to choose the right word when we are searching in a dictionary.

Dictionary lesson

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Now, check what happens when you use automatic translators...

Telling time

To learn how to tell the time in Spanish click here.
To listen to time expressions click here.




¡Vamos a practicar!

¿Qué hora es? y Busca el reloj (go to the “actividades” section once you are in the web).

Memory game

Listening

Día de la Hispanidad

Today is Spain´s National Holiday, also called Día de la Hispanidad. It is the day that Cristopher Columbus arrived to the island of San Salvador on his initial voyage of discovery.

Many countries celebrate Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas. This holiday is called Columbus Day in the United States, Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) in some countries in Latin America, Día de las Culturas (Day of the Cultures) in Costa Rica, Discovery Day in The Bahamas and Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in Venezuela.

Spanish I - El muchacho y la muchacha project

Los alumnos de Español 1 worked on a project where they had to introduced themselves and one of their classmates.

They also created their own muchacho/a and one for their classmate.

La Bamba

Have you listened to the popular "La Bamba"?

What do the lyrics talk about?

La bamba

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Present tense of verb SER

SER is one of the two verbs we have in Spanish to mean “to be”.

It is used to express permanent characteristics like someone’s character and appearance (Ella es simpática, Tú eres alto), nationality (Yo soy española), origin (Él es de Estados Unidos) and profession (Tú eres profesor).

As you know, in Spanish each subject has a verb form, so let’s learn the conjugation of verb “ser”.

Now, practice these games:

Matching: pronouns and verb SER

Rags to riches.

Hangman.

Jeopardy

Battleship.

Talk about your classes

Don’t forget this verb it is a very important verb and we use it a lot!

Subject pronouns

What is a pronoun? It is a word that replaces a noun.

We are going to study those pronouns that act as subject in a sentence.

Now let’s look at the subject pronouns in English and in Spanish:

Flashcards and memory game

Columns

Concentration: pronouns and articles

Articles and Adjectives - Agreement

What is the so called "agreement"?

In Spanish, articles and adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. We are going to learn the definite and the indefinite articles, adjectives and plural forms.

Gender, articles, plural forms

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Do you need to practise? Play some games!

Gender quiz

Noun-adjective agreement

Adjectives: matching

Adjectives: opposites

Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 16, and Chile on September 18.

In Mexico DF, every September 15 at 11pm the President delivers "el grito" or cry of independence.
This ritual recreates the moment in which Father Hidalgo, the heroe of the independence, gathered his followers in Dolores Guanajuato.
2010 is a special year, because Mexico celebrates 200 years of independence from Spain.

More information and fun activities about Hispanic Heritage Month

Extra Credit (10 points)

Country research

Famous people research (choose 2 people)

Preliminary vocabulary

We are going to learn some basic vocabulary before starting with grammar.

Prelim rev

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You can play some games to practise this vocabulary!

Numbers concentration

Numbers hangman

Calendar matching

Calendar scrambled words

Calendar concentration

Date rags to riches

Courtesy matching

Courtesy hangman

Introduction to Spanish

To begin with, we will check your knowledge about the Spanish language and culture.

Do you know any Spanish actor or actress? Do you know where Spanish is spoken?

Introduction to Spanish

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Welcome!

¡Bienvenidos al blog de español de Homer Community School!
This educational blog is intended to encourage the students to express themselves in Spanish and also to provide a window into the Spanish classroom.

The students will visit the blog to:
- Watch their projects online and show them to their parents
- Write a text in Spanish and send it to the blog as part of an assignment
- Review for quizzes through useful information and links

I am sure this is going to be a very useful tool to review at home and a wonderful way to communicate with both parents and students.

Stay tuned!