Spanish 1 11-6-08 white day periods 5, 7, 8

Tarea: for 11-6-08 due 11-10-08

Conjuguemos 2. Realidades 1: Capítulo 1B 200 attempts.



Las frases del día 11-6-08

Here is the link to the worksheet that we completed in class for our las frases del día. It covers the definite articles in Spanish.


Today in class 11-6-08


Today in class we took a pop quiz covering the adjectives that we studied last class and that we practiced for homework from conjuguemos. If you were absent you need to make up this quiz ASAP!

Today in class we began to study the definite and indefinite articles in Spanish below are some of the important notes that will help you learn what they are and how they are used.

Definite and indefinite articles El and la are called definite articles and are the equivalent of “the” in English. El is used with masculine nouns; la is used with feminine nouns. You’ve already seen words with definite articles:

el libro the book la carpeta the folder

Un and una are called indefinite articles and are the equivalent of “a” and “an” in English. Un is used with masculine nouns; una is used with feminine nouns:

un libro a book una carpeta a folder

un libro a book una carpeta a folder

el the la the

un a, an una a, an

Strategy
	Learning by repetition
	When you learn a new noun, say it aloud, along with its definite article, as often as you get a chance. Eventually, you will find that words just “sound right” with the correct definite article and you will know whether nouns are masculine or feminine. to talk about what you and others are like artístico, -a artistic atrevido, -a daring bueno, -a good deportista sports-minded desordenado, -a messy estudioso, -a studious gracioso, -a funny impaciente impatient inteligente intelligent ordenado, -a neat paciente patient perezoso, -a lazy reservado, -a reserved, shy serio, -a serious simpático, -a nice, friendly sociable sociable talentoso, -a talented trabajador, -ora hardworking to ask people about themselves or others ¿Cómo eres? What are you like? ¿Cómo es? What is he / she like? ¿Cómo se llama? What’s his / her name? ¿Eres . . . ? Are you . . . ? to talk about what someone likes or doesn’t like le gusta . . . he / she likes . . . no le gusta . . . he / she doesn’t like . . . to describe someone soy I am no soy I am not

to describe someone
	soy	I am
	no soy	I am not
	es	he / she is

	el amigo	male friend
	la amiga	female friend .
	el chico	boy
	la chica	girl
	la familia	family
	Yo	I
	él	he
	ella	she

other useful words
	a veces	sometimes
	muy	very
	pero	but
	según	according to
	según mi familia	according to my family

adjectives

Masculine	Feminine
ordenado	ordenada
trabajador	trabajadora
paciente	paciente
deportista	deportist

definite articles

el the la the

indefinite articles

un a, an una a, an