Spanish 3 9-24-08 periods 1 and 2

Tarea: for 9-24-08 due 9-29-08 Don't forget your 500 attempts from conjuguemos is also due next class!!!!

Please complete pages 11, 12, 13, and 14 of your packet. Remember they will be graded for accuracy, not just completeness. Please make sure that you spend plenty of time searching for your subject.

Nadie creyó (creer / destruir) lo que dije. In this example Nadie is our subject. Nadie means no one. So the conjugation comes from the 3rd person singular.

Here is the link to page 11 that needs to be completed by next class 9-29-08

Here is the link to page 12 that needs to be completed by next class 9-29-08

Here is some key vocab that will help you be successful with the above activities.

Hubo-there was
tormenta- storm
noticia- news item, piece of news
noticias- news
parece-it seems, it looks, it appears
morir-to die
terremoto- earth quake
ruido terrible- a terrible noise
temblar- to shake
edificios- buildings
senderos- paths , path way
lago-lake
Pescar- to fish
alrededor-around, about
descansar-to rest

REMINDER!!!!!!!!!!!
Conjuguemos 500 attempts due 9-29-08

Conjuguemos : Practice zone # 3. Spanish 3 Chapter 1 vocab practice
Conjuguemos: Practice zone # 2. Realidades 3 - Chapter 1 preterit verbs practiceO

The two conjuguemos activities above need to completed by 9-29-08 You will have a total of 7 days to complete the 500 attempts. Yes, 500 attempts need to be completed by 9-29-08. I would like you to do activity #3 for 250 attempts and activity #2 for 250 attempts. Please do this assignment in chunks. Please do the activities in chunks of 50 or 100. I don't care how you do it as long as all 500 attempts are recorded and sent to me by 9-29-08. Please do not wait tell the last minute to complete all 500 attempts.


Las frases del día 9-24-08

Translate the sentences from English to Spanish.

1. He told me that a tree fell on his house and destroyed it.
2. I did not read it. My Dad read it yesterday.
3. She didn't believe it when she read it in the newspaper.
4. My mom's friend went to live with her daughter.
5. Last weekend, Carlos and I were able to go to the mountains.
   
6. John, Carlos's brother also came with us.
7. I brought the tent, a flashlight and the binoculars. Carlos and John brought the sleeping bags, the compass, the insect repellent and the food.

Today in class 9-24-08

Today in class we practiced more of the irregular preterit verbs. Make sure that we spend a lot of time with the las frases del día.

Here are important notes from class!!!!!!! Please memorize!!!!
El pretérito de los verbos con el cambio ortográfico i➜y (p. 30)
• Remember that verbs ending in -uir, such as the verb construir, have a spelling
change in the preterite. The i from the él/ella/Ud. and the ellos/ellas/Uds. forms
becomes a y. Other verbs, such as oír and creer, also have this change. Look at
the verbs creer and construir below as examples:
creer construir
creí creímos construí construimos
creíste creísteis construiste construisteis
creyó creyeron construyó construyeron


El pretérito de los verbos irregulares (p. 31)
• Several verbs have irregular stems in the preterite. Look at the chart below.
Verb Stem Verb Stem
tener tuv... poner pus...
estar estuv... saber sup...
andar anduv... venir vin...
poder pud...

• The irregular verbs share the same endings. The verbs tener and saber have been
conjugated for you as examples.

tener saber
tuve tuvimos supe supimos
tuviste tuvisteis supiste supisteis
tuvo tuvieron supo supieron

• Notice that none of these irregular forms has a written accent mark.
• The verbs decir and traer also have irregular stems and have different endings in
the ellos/ellas/Uds. form. Look at the conjugations below:
decir: dije, dijiste, dijo, dijimos, dijisteis, dijeron;
traer: traje, trajiste, trajo, trajimos, trajisteis, trajeron