El Espaol

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Cambien

• Students place their chairs in a circle.
• There should be one less chair than the
• number of students.
• Each student receives a vocabulary
• (grammar) card or item. (Each card or
• item must have at least one match and the
• people having matching cards should not
• be next to each other.)
• The student looks at the card or item and
• then places it uner his/her chair.
• Model the game by standing in the center
• and calling out the name of a vocabulary
• item in context.
• The students who have the item mentioned
• should stand up.

2
Pasos Rápidos (Circle Game)

• Students sit in a circle. There is one less
• chair than the number of students.
• Each student is assigned a vocabulary
• picture or item from the category being
• practiced.
• The person who is it stands in the
• middle.
• The goal of the game is for the person in
• the middle to sit down.
• The person in the middle says a sentence
• using one of the vocabulary words.
• The person in the middle tries to run and
• grab/touch the vocabulary item before that
• person can say a sentence with another

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Me duelen los huesos

• Create a set of bones. Write the name of a
  body part on each side of the bone. (Choose body
  parts carefully. For some possibilities, see the
  list below.)
• Divide students into small groups (6 10
  students each). Students in the small groups
  form a circle and place a set of the bones face
  down in the middle of the group. Students are
  assigned a partner (I usually assign students by
  same gender and height.)
• One member of the pair picks up one of the bones
  and says, Me duele _________ (one of the parts
  of the body listed on the bone). The other
  member of the pair says, Me duele _________(the
  remaining body part listed on the bone).
• 4. Play continues around the circle with
  the partners adding another bone
• between them each time. Partners are
  out if they drop a card or they place
• the bone in the wrong location.
  Continue playing until one pair remains.
• Students count the number of bones they
  successfully located. The pair with
• the most number of bones wins.
• Possible combinations nariz espalda mano
  espalda nariz dedo mano pie mano
  estómago dedo oreja codo hombro muñeca
  rodilla rodilla rodilla muñeca cintura
  codo rodilla hombro cabeza mano tobillo
  mano pierna hombro hombro pie pie
• I also use doubles of the above. The
  students place the second card in the same place
  as the first.

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Mneumonics
Los países y las capitales de la América Central
My (Mexico) My
(Mexico City) Brunette (Belize)
Blonde (Belmopan) Girlfriend (Guatemala)
Girlfriend (Guatemala) Even (El
Salvador) Some (San Salvador) Has
(Honduras) Times (Tegucigalpa) New
(Nicaragua) Makes (Managua) Coffee
(Costa Rica) Silver (San José) Pots
(Panama) Pots (Panama City)
(The words that are the same in both
mneumonics are the countries whose capitals have
the same name.)
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Mneumonics
Formation of the subjunctive Go to YO Drop the
o Add the opposite vowel (You know).
Pongo ponga Tengo tenga Hablo habla Pienso
- piense
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Mneumonics
Subjunctive Uncertainty   Wish /
Want   Emotion   Impersonal
Expressions   Requests- Recommendations   Doub
t / Disbelief /Denial   Ojalá

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Subjunctive

• (Adverbial conjunctions that require the
  subjunctive)
• En caso (de) que
• Sin que
• Con tal (de) que
• Antes (de) que
• Para que
• A menos que

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Imperfect
D Description U Used to   W Was,
Were   I Impersonal Expressions   T
Time

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Ser Estar
Description-De (poss.) Position Occupation Loc
ation Characteristics Action
now!  Time/Date/Place of event
Conditions Origin Emotions
Relationship  

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Este Esta Ese Esa Estos Estas Esos
Esas

This and these have Ts, That
and those dont.
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Affirmative Commands with Object Pronouns 4
As
Affirmative After Attached
Accent For Affirmative commands,
the object pronouns go After the verb, are
Attached to it, and a usually have a written
Accent. (Ex Háblame!, Siéntense!)

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Diario de leer
Nombre_______________________
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Graphic Organizers
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Graphic Organizers
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Two Women This sample poem was written by a
working class Chilean woman in 1973, shortly
after Chile's socialist president, Salvador
Allende, was overthrown. For the classroom
project, the students research an issue which
involves two sides of a story and then write a
dialogue poem to reflect their understanding of
the conflict. I am a woman. I am a woman.
I am a woman born of a woman whose man owned a
factory. I am a woman born of a woman whose man
labored in a factory. I am a woman whose man wore
silk suits, who constantly watched his weight. I
am a woman whose man wore tattered clothing,
whose heart was constantly strangled by hunger.
I am a woman who watched two babies grow into
beautiful children. I am a woman who watched two
babies die because there was no milk. I am a
woman who watched twins grow into popular college
students with summers abroad. I am a woman who
watched three children grow, but with bellies
stretched from no food. But then there was a
man But then there was a man And he talked
about the peasants getting richer by my family
getting poorer. And he told me of days that
would be better and he made the days better. We
had to eat rice.We had rice. We had to eat
beans! We had beans. My children were no longer
given summer visas to Europe. My children no
longer cried themselves to sleep. And I felt
like a peasant. And I felt like a woman.
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Diamante Poem

• _________________ _____________, ___________
  _______________, ______________, _______________
  _______________, ______________,
  _______________, _______________
  _______________, ______________, _______________
  _______________, _____________
  __________________
• Line 1 Subject (noun)Line 2 Two adjectives
  that describe the subjectLine 3 Three
  participles (verbs ending with "-ing") that
  describe the subjectLine 4 Four nouns related
  to the subjectLine 5 Three participles (verbs
  ending with "-ing") that describe the
  subjectLine 6 Two adjectives that describe the
  subjectLine 7 Noun
• squaresymmetrical, conventionalshaping,
  measuring, balancingboxes, rooms, clocks,
  halosencircling, circumnavigating,
  enclosinground, continuouscircle