Spanish 3 11-13-08 Purple day periods 1 and 2

Tarea: 11-13-08 due next class 11-17-08

ONLINE SPANISH DICTIONARY

Conjuguemos grammar activities:
These activities can be found under the practice zone grammar section. Please do the activities tell you have the coorect answer. Once you have all the answers correct write the correct answers on a piece of notebook paper and bring it to class to get credit. Remember you are practicing the the preterit vs the imperfect. Not all the answers will be preterit and not all the answers will be imperfect. The purpose of the activity is to help you learn to choose the correct tense.
Go to practice zone then grammar.

Grammar
	1. Preterit vs. The imperfect
	2. Preterit vs. The imperfect #2

Las frases del día 11-13-08

Here is the link to the activity that we completed in class for las frases del día we are focusing on the second page.

Here are the key notes to help understand the uses of the imperfect:

Usos del imperfecto (p. 44)
The imperfect is used:
• to describe events that happened regularly or habitually in the past
• to describe people and places in the past (for example: physical descriptions of
what people or places looked like, or people’s emotions)
• to describe past events that were ongoing or continuous (including things that
“were happening” before being interrupted)
• to give the date, time, and someone’s age in the past
• to talk about the weather in the past