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

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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.

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