Week 9 – Nov. 14
1) We touched on some but not necessarily all of these grammatical concepts surround nouns, articles, adjectives, and pronunciation:
- Gender (the normal pattern)
- Gender (when it doesn’t fit the pattern – memorize) – this isn’t going to be “make or break” in most cases so don’t worry too much about it.
- Plural – add an s, except for…
- Articles – definite and indefinite (always match in gender and number) (handout)
- Exceptions (the letter a as the first letter of feminine words) This has lots of interesting comments: https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/44/why-is-agua-masculine-in-singular-form-and-feminine-in-plural-el-agua-la
- Contractions a+el and de+el
- The interesting case where the article changes the meaning of the noun.
- Un/una/unos/unas – when do you actually use uno?
- Pronouns
- We know the subject pronouns but what is the meaning of usted?
- Things that conjunctions do – y vs e and o vs u
- Accents – the rules and a few examples (handout with rules)
- Task: write a short paragraph that demonstrates all of these things! Then share with your partner.
- Pronunciation and Spelling – a short listening and writing activity to see if you can put the accent in the right place.
- Practice here: https://www.spanishdict.com/quizzes/118/written-accents-tildes
2) Quiz on the preterit irregulars (moved to next week)
Break
3) Cajas de Cartón – Capítulo dos
4) Song: Raphael – Canción del Trabajo
5) conclusion – preterit quiz next week