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Spanish 1A

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Click here to watch el verbo tener 2This year long 10 credit foreign language course meets the Fine Arts/Foreign Language requirement for graduation. Level one is designed for all students who want to learn another language. This course introduces students to the four receptive and reproductive skills of listening comprehension , speaking, reading, writing and elementary grammar.
 

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3/17-3/18

Assignments for 3/17-3/18
 
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Lecture:
 
Stem-changing verbs e - i:
 
These are verbs like pedir: pido, pides, pide, pedimos, piden.
So the verbs change from e to i.
 
Repetir: repito, repites, repite, repetimos, repiten
Servir: sirvo, sirves, sirve, servimos, sirven
Reír: río, ríes, ríe, reímos, ríen
 
Whenever the verb has a verb embedded in the verb, you conjugate the verb like your know. For example:
 
Mantener: mantengo, mantienes, mantiene, mantenemos, mantienen
Despedir: despido, despides, despide, despedimos, despiden
Sonreír: sonrío, sonríes, sonríe, sonreímos, sonríen
 
See PowerPoint
 
There is a worksheet that was handed out to practice.

We introduced the new project, and worked on it.

3/12-3/13

Today's assignments:
 
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We reviewed poder, pedir and recomendar
 
I introduced: dormir, encontrar, costar and jugar.
 
These are stem-changing (or boot) verbs. They change to ue.
 
The conjugations are:
dormir -- duermo, duermes, duerme, dormimos, duermen
encontrar -- encuentro, encuentras, encuentra, encontramos, encuentran
costar -- cuesto, cuestas, cuesta, costamos, cuestan
jugar -- juego, juegas, juega, jugamos, juegan
 
As you can see, the syllable to the right of the last syllable (for example ju in jugar) changes. It is always this way. There are different stem-changes, o/u to ue, e to i, and e to ie. Today we only worked on the ue changes.
 
You are to complete the following attached document, too.
 
Ms. T

Quiz Monday

We have a vocabulary quiz on Monday.
 
It will be from English to Spanish, so you will be writing the answers in Spanish. Don't forget you need articles and pronouns to make the answers completely correct. And spelling counts this time! Don't forget the accents!
 
¡Buena suerte!

3/10-3/11

These are the assignments:
 
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New vocabulary list (see following attachment)
 
We had presentations the last half of class.