Spanish I - Talking about ourselves

This is how the students of Spanish I are able to communicate and express themselves in Spanish. In this video, they ask and answer questions about: where they live, their families, the school and their likes and dislikes.

It has been a great year and everybody has learned A LOT!

Spanish I - My Dream House Project

The students of Spanish I created a slide show about their ideal houses.

This way, they reviewed the use of periphrasis and the vocabulary about the house.

These are two of their great presentations. ¡Buen trabajo!

La casa ideal de Collin

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La casa ideal de Sara

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La Casa - The House

Let´s learn some vocabulary about the house. Click on the image to listen to the parts of the house in Spanish.

House and family flashcards

Concentration game

Scrambled words

Rags to riches

Crossword

Coma camaleón game

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Being shown round a flat

Conversation: My house

The outside of the house

Furniture

Household chores

Tell us about your home

Preterite tense: -AR verbs

We are going to learn one of the past tenses we have in Spanish: el pretérito.

Let´s see how it works for the first conjugation, the -AR verbs.

Pretérito: -AR verbs

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The verbs ending in -car, -gar and -zar have an irregular preterite.

Did you get it? You may need to practice…

Preterite endings

Jeopardy

Challenge board

Pop-up

Drag and drop

Irregular AR preterites

Rags to riches

Rags to riches -car, -gar, -zar

Periphrasis - Tener que / Ir a

A periphrasis is a special construction with at least two verbs that behave as a group like a single verb would.

We are going to learn how to express obligation with tener que + infinitive and how to express near future actions with Ir a + infinitive.

Perífrasis: tener que / ir a + INFINITIVO

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Fill in the blanks

¿Qué vamos a hacer después del trabajo?

Ir a: Rags to riches

¿Qué vamos a hacer mañana?
¿Qué tienen que hacer?

Challenge board

Battleship

El Verano - Summer

Vamos a aprender vocabulario sobre el verano.

Verano

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Listen to some summer essential phrases.

Use this links to practice summer vocabulary:

Flashcards

Match the items

Fill in the blanks

Concentration

Hangman

Spanish II - En la Consulta del Médico

Los alumnos de español 2 performed a scene at the doctor’s office to practise vocabulary and expressions about health.

Check out some of their great skits!

Cinco de Mayo

¡Viva México! ¡Viva Benito Juárez!

The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, and especially in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually September 16.

(source: Mexiconline.com)

Would you like to send a Cinco de Mayo Card?

Cinco de Mayo vocabulary

Cinco de Mayo recipes

Spanish I - My Fantastic Family

Los alumnos de Español 1 trabajaron en el proyecto “Mi familia fantástica”.

They created a presentation about their fantastic family, using family members vocabulary and adjectives to describe everybody in the family.

La familia fantástica de Tressa

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La familia fantástica de Laine

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From Madrid to Heaven

Today, in class, we are going to learn about the capital of Spain, Madrid, where Ms. Rivas comes from:)



Click in Madrid, tourist information and answer the following questions:

1. What is Madrid famous for?
2. What are the three best museums in Madrid?
3. Click let’s go –vamos! What is the name of this classical building?
4. Where are Madrid’s main attractions? How can you visit them?
5. Click next. What is La Cibeles and to whom is it dedicated? By the way, this is the monument where the Real Madrid soccer team fans always meet to party their victories.
6. Click next. When can you visit the museums for free?
7. Click next and next again, until slide 6. What kind of art can you see at the Museo del Prado?
8. Go to slide 8. What kind of art can you see at the Museo Thyssen Bornemitzsa?
9. Go to slide 11. What can you find in El Parque del Retiro?
10. Go to slide 13. What happened in Spain and in Madrid when Dictator Franco died in 1975, after 4 decades of Dictatorship?
11. How is this cultural movement called, meaning “the movement”?
12. Slide 14. What do you have to do to taste the real Madrid?
13. Go to slide 15. How many metro lines are there in Madrid?
14. Click next. Where can you go for a quick meal? What are “tapas”?
15. Click next. What type of art does el Museo Reina Sofía host?
16. What is the most important painting you can see there? What does this painting illustrate and what does it denounce?
17. Go to slide 20. What is the name of this square and when was it built?
18. Go to slide 26. How is Spain now? Describe its government system.
19. Go to slide 33. What is the name of the highest building in Madrid? How many inhabitants has Madrid?
20. Go to slide 36. What’s the name of the best soccer team in Madrid?
21. Go to slide 44. Which are the 2 most famous streets (calles) where you can go shopping?
22. Go to slide 46. What’s the name of this square? Why is it famous?

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Downtown Madrid

Madrid's famous sculptures

That´s how they see us

Madrid: gastronomy

Gran Vía video and pictures

More pictures and interesting information

Madrid daily passion blog

Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives are used to show ownership. They agree with the noun they modify but, unlike most other adjectives, they precede that noun.

Click on the image for an animated presentation.

Los Adjetivos Posesivos

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¿Necesitas practicar?

Recognize the possessive

¿De quién es?

Fill in the blanks 1

Fill in the blanks 2

Basic quiz

The Spanish Civil War - Web Activity

Next week the students of Spanish 2 are going to watch Carol’s Journey, a Spanish movie about the Civil War.



Before watching the movie, they will have to familiarize themselves with the background information and historical facts about the Spanish Civil War.



Go to the Imperial War Museum of London web page and click on A short background history of events leading up to the Spanish civil war.

If you can’t see the document, click here.

Answer the following questions:

1. When did the Spanish Civil War start?

2. What was the name of the General who led the rebels?

3. What countries and governments supported him?

4. Did the Western democracies help the Republican government?

5. When did the war end?

6. Who won and what were the political consequences?

7. What was the name of the rebels side?

8. Who supported them?

9. Why did the republicans take up arms?

10. What did volunteers (International Brigades) fight against in Spain?

11. How many volunteers took part in the war?

Go to the ALBA web page.
ALBA History














Answer the following questions:

12. How many American volunteers traveled to Spain to join the International Brigades?

13. How were they called?

14. When the Spanish civil war was over, where did they fight?

Take a look at these realistic pictures from Robert Capa, David Seymour and Gerda Taro, photographers who witnessed the war.

The Spanish Civil War

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Demonstrative Adjectives

Here are some words that we will use to present things depending on how far they are from us.

(source: Aula de lenguaje)

If these demonstratives accompany a noun, they will be adjectives; whereas if they are alone and they have an accent mark, they will have replaced that noun and they will be pronouns.
Demonstrative Adjectives

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Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks

Choose the correct demonstrative

Adjective or pronoun?

Basic quiz

Juanes - La Camisa Negra

We already listened to one of Juane´s song for MLK day in class. This time, he talks about love.



Fill-in-the-blank activity

La camisa negra

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DO and IO pronouns

What is a pronoun? Pronouns replace nouns.

The object that directly receives the action of the verb is called the direct object (DO).
You can have the DO if you ask the verb "what?" or "whom?".

Bill hit the ball.
Bill hit what?
Bill hit the ball.

Sherry hit Bill.
Sherry hit whom?
Sherry hit Bill.

The indirect object (IO) tells us where the direct object (DO) is going.
The indirect object answers the question "To whom?" or "For whom?" the action of the verb is performed.

He gives María the book.
To whom does he give the book?
To María.

IO=María

He buys me flowers.
For whom does he buy the flowers?
For me.

IO=me

Check out this presentation to learn the use of DO and IO in Spanish:

DO and IO pronouns

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¿Quieres practicar? Click on the following links.

Clothing and DO pronouns

Fill in the blanks

Replace the DO with a pronoun

Columns: identify the IO pronoun

Replace the IO with a pronoun

IO Rags to Riches

IO: have something done

IO battleship

Give the IO and the correct verb form

¿Cómo ayudas a tus padres?

Spanish II - Monstruos

The students of Spanish 2 created these awesome monsters and practise some vocabulary about body parts, tener expressions, likes and dislikes.

Check it out!

La Familia

Vamos a aprender vocabulario sobre la familia. Click on the image to listen to the vocabulary.



Ahora, contesta estas preguntas:



Para hablar sobre tu familia, repasa el verbo TENER:

Presente del verbo TENER

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For more practise, you can play…

Talk Spanish: age and siblings

Meeting a Spanish family
Memory game

Las bodas y la familia

¿Quiénes son?

Columns

Hangman

Crossword

Jeopardy

Listening activity: Your family

El Burro Enfermo - The Sick Donkey

Escucha esta canción sobre un burro muy, muy enfermo, I am sure you will recognise some vocabulary about health and illnesses.



Fill-in-the-blank activity

A Mi Burro

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Spanish I - El Menú

As a project to review the food vocabulary, the students of Spanish 1 created their own Spanish menus…

¿Qué desean Ustedes? ¡Enseguida!

Field Trip to Wayne State College

Yesterday, we went to the Annual Language Day of Wayne State College.

The students of Spanish II participated in a contest with this great video:



And this is what we got! ¡Somos los mejores!

La Salud - Health

Go over the flashcards to learn new words and expressions related with health and illnesses.

Learn Spanish Vocabulary for La Salud, vocab 1

Learn Spanish Vocabulary for La salud, vocab 2

Click on the image to listen to more vocabulary.

Practica en estos enlaces:

Matching

Concentration

Columns

Hangman

Illnesses and recovery. What’s the matter with this people? What do they need to do to recover from their illnesses?

Desayuno sano (Healthy breakfast, Spanish commercial)

Aprende a comer sano (Learn how to eat healthy food- game)
Consejos para tu bebé (Tips for preventing child accidents at home, Spanish commercial)
Anti-smoking law (Spanish commercial)

Kids Health (dictionary and games)

Commercial "El Cigarral" Cheese

How do you say What is that in Spanish?

Let’s have some fun, write the Spanish word for cheese in your fingers: Q-U-E-S-O and watch the commercial...



Ready? Now, try to mimic the children!

Lady Knights Win Basketball State Championship

¡Enhorabuena Lady Knights! Congratulations!

Las Partes del Cuerpo - Body Parts

Watch this video to identify las partes del cuerpo (body parts in Spanish)



Ahora practica en los siguientes enlaces:

Matching exercise

Create your puppet

Scrambled words

¿Qué parte es?

Hangman

Concentration

Spanish II - Tener Expressions

The students of Spanish II worked on the following project about the "tener expressions":
Tener expressions 1

Watch the video

Tener Expressions 2

Watch the video

Tener Expressions 3

Watch the video

Tener Expressions 4

Watch the video

Tener Expressions 5

Watch the video

Stem-Changing Verbs in the Present Tense

Let’s learn how to conjugate a stem-changing or “boot" verb in the present tense.

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Click here for a complete chart of the stem-changing verbs.

Ahora, vamos a practicar:

Concentration and matching

Rags to riches

Jeopardy

Study stack games

Fill in the blanks

Fill in the blanks 2

Spanish I - IR Flashcards

The students of Spanish 1 created amazing flashcards to illustrate the use of the verb IR (to go) with prepositions and places.

Check out their great job!

¡Feliz Día de San Valentín!

Happy Valentine´s Day!

Would you like to send a Valentine’s card in Spanish?

Here are some ideas for your message:

Vocabulario de San Valentín

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Ahora, practica mientras escuchas la canción de amor de “Tequila”:

Tequila - Dime que me quieres

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Los Deportes - Sports

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Study these flash cards | Study spanish flash cards

¿Quieres jugar?

Columns
Memory game
Space race
Concentration
Hangman
Challenge board

Extra credit: more Sports and a web research about Spanish speaking sportsmen:

Los deportes - web research

Spain wins the Soccer World Cup 2010



Psychic Octopus Paul predicts Spain to beat The Netherlands

Camacho announces Iniesta´s goal

Meet the team

La Comida - Food

Click on the images to listen to the vocabulary.



















Practica en estos enlaces:

Las compras

Quizlet vocab 1

Going shopping – fill your cart with the items on the list

Match the items

Quizlet vocab 2

Study stack games

Crossword

Alimentos en español

Ir de compras: comida y ropa





Serrano Ham in Chicago

Made in Spain - Spanish cuisine at PBS

Chef José Andrés in Madrid

Spanish II - Feelings / Las Emociones

The students of Spanish 2 created flashcards to illustrate the use of verb ESTAR with feelings.

Very good job!

Spanish I - The Fashion Show

Los alumnos de Español 1 put in practise the vocabulary they learned about clothing and colours and they had a lot of fun presenting their projects of "The Fashion Show".

¡Buen trabajo!

Siniestro Total - ¿Quiénes Somos? ¿De Dónde Venimos?

En la clase de Español 2, we have listened to this song by the Spanish band Siniestro Total.

It is a good way to review some grammar: verbs of movement (Ir / Venir), location and description of people, objects and places. Also, we learned some phylosophical vocabulary.



¿Cuándo fue el gran estallido?
¿Dónde estamos antes de nacer?
¿Dónde está el eslabón perdido?
¿Qué son los agujeros negros?
¿Se expande el universo?, ¿Es cóncavo o convexo?
¿Quiénes somos?, ¿De dónde venimos?, ¿ A dónde vamos?
¿Estamos solos en la galaxia o acompañados?
¿Y si existe un más allá? ¿Y si hay reencarnación?
¿Quiénes somos?, ¿De dónde venimos?, ¿A dónde vamos?

¿Qué es el ser?
¿Qué es la esencia?
¿Qué es la nada?
¿Qué es la eternidad?
¿Somos alma? ¿Somos materia?
¿Somos sólo fruto del azar?
¿Es eficaz el carbono 14?
¿Es nuestro antepasado el hombre de Orce?

¿Quiénes somos?, ¿De dónde venimos? ¿A dónde vamos?

Marco ELE Activity by Mercedes CY

Spanish II - At the Clothing Store

Los alumnos de Español 2 performed some dialogues to practise some of the shopping vocabulary they learned in class.

They did a great job! Check it out!

Tener used in expressions (I am 17, I am hungry...)

Tener means to have or to possess. It is an irregular -ER verb, although it takes the -ER endings for the present tense, it has a changing stem.

The only regular forms are the nosotros and vosotros forms. Check the changes that occur in the rest of the forms:

Yes, you are right! It is a "gogo verb" and it also adds an "i" in the tú, él-ella-usted and ellos-ellas-ustedes form. You got it :)

The verb tener can also be translated as to be in some expressions.
You already know how to express age in Spanish:
- I am seventeen Yo tengo diecisiete años.
Other expressions are:

¿Necesitas repasar estas expresiones?

• Tener conjugation: concentration, multiple choice.

• Tener expressions: word search, matching, battleship.

• Tener y venir: concentration, word search.
  

Tengo un sueño ... / I have a dream

Hoy es el día de Martin Luther King Jr.

This national holiday honors the life and work of America’s greatest civil rights leader.


Spanish MLK JR Vocabulary:

• liberty- la libertad
• equality- la igualdad
• peace- la paz
• justice- la justicia
• respect- el respeto
• divertisy- la diversidad
• tolerant- tolerante
• equal- justo
• I have a dream- tengo un sueño
• discrimination- la discriminación
• segregation- la segregación

Vamos a escuchar los "Sueños" de Juanes



Fill-in-the-blank activity

Sueños song

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Ahora, tell us about your dreams for the world and for yourself.

You may need to use a dictionary.

Actividad yo tambien tengo un sueño

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MLK Jr. speech in Spanish

MLK crossword

MLK quiz

MLK activities

Present Tense of -ER and -IR verbs

We have already learned how to conjugate an -AR verb in the present tense.

If you remember how it works, it is very similar with the -ER and the -IR verbs, you only have to learn the endings.

Present tense of -ER and -IR verbs

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Now, review the meaning of some regular -AR, -ER and -IR verbs.

Useful regular verbs

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Quizlet with common AR, ER and IR verbs

Multiple choice with the verbs you have to know

Rags to riches with conjugation

Battleship with conjugation

Letter to the Three Wise Men - Carta a los Reyes Magos

All the countries where Spanish is spoken have received the visit of the Three Wise Men, Los Reyes Magos. They have brought presents to everybody.

Did you write your letter to ask them for your presents?

Carta reyes

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