Month: May 2018

Hola chicos.

Aquí están las lecciones de esta semana de lección 3.

Los-Verbos-–ER-y-IR

Verbos-irregularesteneryvenir

Adjetivos-descriptivos-y-numeros

The Ilearn Homework is posted for Leccion 3 for this week.  There is no blog post this weekend, rather I would like you to complete the first 5 sentences from the Practica de Traduccion 1 on page 340 (Custom appendix).  Translate them into Spanish using the vocabulary and grammar from Lecciones 1-3.  On Tuesday we complete the rest and will go over it together.

Please also see below for information on next week’s midterm exam.  

Hola a todos

Our midterm exam will be on June 7th in the second half of class. Here is what you can expect:

The exam should take approximately an hour to write. There will be three sections:

1. Short Answer

These will require one-word answers. The focus will be on Verbs from Chapters 1-3, (Regular -AR, -ER and IR verbs, and Irregular Verbs Ser, Tener and Venir) as well as Gender and Number, Adjectives, and Telling Time.

Examples of Possible Questions

Yo ___________ (ser) estudiante.

Alberto _______ tacos. (provide and conjugate the correct verb)

Salma Hayek es _____________ (provide an adjective)

It’s 10:30 ______________________ (provide a statement of time)

2. Composición

You will be given a choice of 1 of 2 “situaciones” based on material in the text (usually from the dialogues at the beginning of the chapters, so study those) and you will be asked to either write a short composition or a dialogue.

3. Traducción
You will be given a short paragraph in English and asked to translate it into Spanish.  This will be based on the material in the dialogues as well as the “Practica de Traduccion” we do in class and at home.

Hi Everyone

I am laid up in bed with a fever and a bad chest cold, so I am not going to be able to make it in to Vancouver today.  The Dictation Quiz will be postponed until Thursday the 31st in the last class hour.

Also, because summer courses tend to be more flexible in terms of what instructors can do, I am going to make some changes to the syllabus to reflect the concetrated nature of the course and to not overwhelm you with two midterm exams in a short period of time.  There will be one composition and one midterm instead of two of each.  Here are the updated assignment dates:

Ejercicio auditivo                                          15%.            May 29th

Examen Parcial                                             20%            June 7th.   (Covering Chapters 1-3)

Composicion                                                 20%            June 19th

iLrn                                                              5%

Participation  Inc. blog questions                    15%  (7.5% Attendance  7.5% Blog participation). Blog Questions and Ilearn must be completed by June 27th.

Examen III (Final)                                        25%.           June 27th, 7:00 PM

If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch with me via e-mail.

Barbara

Hola chicos

Tuesday, in the last class hour (3:45-4:45) we are going to be having our first quiz.  This will be a dictation quiz based on the vocabulary and grammar structures of Lecciones 1 and 2.

The quiz will contain 3 parts.  In part 1: Vocabulario, I will read 10 vocabulary words or phrases from both chapters’ vocabulary lists.  (pgs 6-7, and 40-41) and you will write them out in Spanish.

In part 2, Preguntas, I will dictate a list of 6 questions in Spanish.  These will be derived more or less from the “Para conversar” and “para conocernos mejor” questions throughout the chapters.  (Usually after each grammar lesson there are discussion questions).  You will write out the questions in Spanish as best you can.

In part 3, Respuestas, You will answer the questions from Part 2 in full sentences.  To get full marks, you will need to add an extra 5 words per question that aren’t already in the questions themselves, (don’t just repeat the material in the question).

I am reachable by e-mail if you have any questions about the quiz or any of the material covered.  (Barbara.fraser@ubc.ca)

Hola chicos

This week we completed Lección 2 in the textbook and looked over the vocabulary for Lección 3.  Here are the lecture notes for this week:

La Hora

Los Verbos Regulares

Posesión con de

Negativos y interrogativos

Adjetivos posesivos

For Homework, please do the assigned work from the Ilearn.  For the blog, describe 3 things that you want to do when your classes end.  (Tres cosas que deseas hacer cuando terminan tus clases)

Hola chicos

Aquí están las lecciones de hoy:

Género y Número

Los pronombres y el verbo ser

Los números 40-200

More on Gender

We finished up the lessons from Chapter 1 and began the first two grammar lessons from Chapter 2.

Tareas (homework):  Workbook questions from Chapter 1 are posted on the Quia website and are due on Tuesday.  For instructions on how to sign up see this link

For the blog, write a brief 3-4 sentence description of yourself in the comment section in Spanish, use the verb “Ser”

Bienvenidos a español 101: Escuela de verano.

Today we covered pages 4-20 in the text.  Here are the lecture notes.  Greetings

El alfabeto español

Números, colores y días de la semana

Las estaciones del año y los meses

We also looked at the song “La ronda de los vocales” for learning vowel sounds.  Here it is

I am still waiting for the Ilearn code from the book seller, she was supposed to send it to me today but UBC’s entire site crashed hard, hopefully I will be able to set up the Ilearn workbook lab for Thursday.  Meanwhile the course syllabus is linked above.