A dios le pido - JUANES

Reminders for Monday, March 30th

Spanish 1 - Remember you have a quiz on Monday over reflexive verbs.

*A reflexive verb describes an action which you perform upon yourself (example: washing yourself, combing your own hair, brushing your own teeth, etc.)

*To form reflexive verbs, we must have reflexive pronouns (words like myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, themselves, etc.)  In Spanish, our reflexive pronouns are me, te, se, nos and se.

*After we have our reflexive pronouns, we simply drop off the 'se' on the end of the verb and conjugate that verb regularly.

Example: lavarse (to wash oneself)

me lavo (I wash myself)

te lavas (you wash yourself)

se lava (he/she washes himself/herself; you (formally) wash yourself)

nos lavamos (we wash ourselves)

se lavan (they wash themselves; you all wash yourselves)

Spanish 2 - Define vocab on p. 280, 283 on flashcards

Spanish 3, 4 - Remember your paper over Magical Realism and Pan's Labyrinth is due on Tuesday, March 31st

Possible things to start thinking about

1.  Flamenco show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston: Sunday, April 5th at 2:30 and 3:30

*this would be extra credit for Spanish 1 & 2

*this would be an assignment for Spanish 3 & 4

2.  Preparations for Cinco de Mayo celebration at O'Connell (making piñatas, thinking about food, games, how we are going to teach the rest of the school about Spanish culture...etc.)

3.  Spanish Club - just ordered your t-shirts today...they will be in in a couple of weeks!

4.  Spanish Club fundraisers for next year (for possible trip to Mexico?  just a thought!)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Answers to the review for Spanish 2 classes

The answers start on page 2 after the GRAMATICA list.

1. Se venden camas aqui.
2. Se habla espanol aqui.
3. Se vende pan aqui.
4. Se alquilan carros aqui.
5. Se reparan relojes aqui.

1. Maria esta cansada.
2. La ventana esta abierta.
3. Nosotros estamos preocupados.
4. La puerta esta cerrada.
5. Luisa esta bien vestida.
6. El televisor esta apagado.
7. Las clases estan atestadas.
8. Mi desayuno favorito esta quemado.
9. Las luces estan encendidas.
10. No se donde esta mi tarea. Mi tarea esta escondida.

What does the present perfect tense describe?
It describes an action that has happened recently. It expresses something that you have done.

How do you form the present perfect tense?
You need the present tense of the verb haber plus a past participle

Conjugate the verb haber:
yo he
tu has
Ud./el/ella ha
nosotros hemos
uds./ellos/ellas han

Irregular past participles
dicho - said
roto - broken
hecho - made
escrito - written
visto - seen
muerto - died
abierto - opened
cubierto - covered
descubierto - discovered
puesto - put
vuelto - returned

What does the past perfect describe?
The past perfect describes an action which occurred before a previous action. It expresses something that you had done.

How do you form the past perfect tense?
You need the imperfect tense of haber plus a past participle

Conjugate haber below:
yo habia
tu habias
ud./el/ella habia
nosotros habiamos
uds./ellos/ellas habian

BUENA SUERTE!!! ESTUDIEN!!!

The Mexican Hat Dance

The Mexican Hat Dance Song

Había desaparecido por una semana, pero he regresado ahora.

Buenos, estudiantes.

It certainly has seemed like a long time since I've been at school.  Last week I was at a funeral in Tennessee, but I made it back Friday night, so I'll be in class Monday morning.  Here is the agenda for this last week before Spring Break.  Because I was gone, we have a lot of catching up to do (because I doubt that you really did all I laid out for you.  No offense, but I know how you are).

For Spanish 1 students:

We are going to get through as much of Unidad 6 as possible.  You have two quizzes on Monday: One over the vocab from Unidad 6, Lección 1 and one over the grammar in Unidad 6 Lección 1.  After that we will review and for the rest of the week try to get through Lecciones 2 & 3.

For Spanish 2 students:

You have a vocab quiz on Monday over Unidad 6 Lección 2.  I will also be collecting Activity 8 p. 257 from you.  The rest of the week we will be getting through as much of this Unit as we can.

For Spanish 3 & 4 students:

I will be collecting your reading comprehension packets on Monday. Also, remember that your skit presentations are on Monday.  This is a heavy portion of your grade.  In addition, since you have had 8 extra days to work on this, I will be grading you very heavily for grammar and presentation.  I hope you didn't waste last week!

Thanks for all your hard work, students.  I am looking forward to this week!