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I am going to show the basic way of greeting anyone, whether it is an adult or an amigo.

Region-

Questions I’ll ask

¿De donde eres?-Where are you from

I’ll show them what this means

Soy de______-I’m from

Soy de______ pero vivo en ________-I’m from ____ but I live in 

Yo también-Me too

What I’m going to do

I’m going to show a map of Spain, Mexico, and other spanish speaking countries, and I’m going to say where this place is and give examples.

Questions I’ll ask

¿Que Tal?- How are you?

¿Y tu?-And you?

I’ll show them what this means

Mui Bien-Very good

¡Hola!-Hello

Buenas dias-Good Morning

Buenas Tardes-Good Afternoon

Buenos Noches-Good Evening

What I’m going to do

I’m going to start a conversation with someone, then if they don’t understand it, then I’ll explain it on the board. Then, I’ll start to make conversations with random people in the class.

Weather

Questions

¿Qué tiempo hace?-What’s the weather like?

I’ll show what this means

Hace(mcuho) frio, calor, viento, sol, fresco- It’s cold, hot, windy, cool

Esta lloviendo, llueve, nevando, nublado- It’s raining, it rains, It’s 

snowing, it snows

What I’m going to do 

Below are a few lists of Greetings in Spanish translated to English. The Spanish word is on the left and the English translation is on the right.

(1). ¡Hola!.................................................Hello!

(2). ¡Buenos dias!.....................................Good morning!

(3). ¡Buenas dias!.....................................Good afternoon!

(4). ¡Buenas noches!................................Good evening/night!

* Notice that when you say "good morning" & "good evening" in Spanish you say "buenAS" instead of "buenOS".The differrence between the three is that there is one masculine and two feminine. In Spanish the things that are masculine end with an o and the things that a feminine end with an o. BuenOS is masculine and buenAS is feminine.

* In English when using exclamation marks you use them at the end of an sentence. In Spanish you use an exclamation mark in the beginning and in the end. The exclamation mark in the beginning is upside-down. An upside down exclamation mark looks like this: "¡ ". The reason for this upside down exclamation mark is that when you are reading in the Spanish language you automatically know from the beginning that this phrease/sentence is going to be said with emotion.

(5).¿Que tal?.........................................How are you?

(6). ¿Cómo val?....................................How are you?

(7). ¿Cómo estás tú?( Informal)...........How are you?

(8) ¿Cómo está usted? ( formal).............How are you?

(9) Muy bien gracias.............................Very well, thanks.

(10) Más o menos..................................Alright.

(11) Muy mal/ Terrible.......................... Awful/ Terrible

(12) ¿Y Tú ( informal).......................... And you?

(13) ¿Y Usted ( formal)..........................And you?

(14) ¡Ay,ay,ay!........................................Oh, no!

(15) ¡Que bien!.......................................Oh, good!

* In English when using question marks you use them at the end of the sentence. In Spanish you would use question marks in the beginning and ends of the sentences. Like the exclamation mark the question mark also has to be upside down in the beginning. an upside down question mark looks like this: "¿". The reason for this upside down is that when you begin to read a sentence in spanish you can automatically tell from the very beginning that a question is being asked.

Script

Informal

(SLA Hallway, standing)

D: ¡Ay, ay, ay!

(Tina enters)

D: ¡Hola! ¡Buenos días!

T: ¡Buenos días!

D: ¿Qué tal?

T: Muy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú?

D: Estoy muy mal.

T: ¡Ay, ay, ay!

D: ¡Adíos!

T: ¡Adíos!

Formal:

(SLA Ballroom, standing)

T: ¡Buenas noches!

D: ¡Buenas noches!

T: ¿Cómo está?

D: Bien, gracias. ¿Y Usted?

T: Más o menos.

D: ¡Hasta pronto!

T: ¡Hasta pronto!

In order to get someones number in Spanish you need to know:

*The Numbers in Spanish

*How to ask "What's you number?"

* How to break up and separate the Numbers.

To ask someone for there number in Spanish you say: Cual es tu numero de telefono? This mean "What is your phone Number?"

Numbers:

The second most important thing that you need to know is how to break up the numbers when getting someone's number. 

Example: (215)-872-3452

In Spanish you would break the numbers up like this: (2 / 15)-8 / 72- 34 / 52

so you would say:  Dos(2) /Quince(15)- Ocho (8) / Setenta y dos(72)- Treinta y cuatro(34)- Cincuenta y dos(52)

Try a couple on your own:

215-333-6790

267-897-0234

Don't forget to break up the number.

Below is a list of the days of the week and how to ask what day it is. The Spanish word will be on the left and the English translation will be on the right.

(1) ¿Qué dia es hoy?.............................................................What day is today?

(2) Es lunes……………………………………………………… Its lunes .

(3) Es martes…………………………………………………….. Its Tuesday.

(4) Es meircoles….……………………………………………... Its Wednesday.

(5) Es jueves……………………………………………………,,.. Its Thursay.

(6) Es viernes……………………………………………………. Its Friday.

(7) Es sabado…………………………………………………… Its Saturday.

(8) Es domingo………………………………………………… Its Sunday.

·      When writing the days of the week in Spanish, they are never capitalizedas the are in English.

·      Notice that when what day of the week of asked, the word “hoy” should actually be pronounced as “oy”. Remember you drop the “h” sound.

·      Also, on a Spanish calender , the week doesn’t start with Monday instead of Sunday.

Script

Days of the week:

(Classroom, Dejah and Tina meet.)

T: ¡Hola, Dejah!

D: ¡Hola!

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es lunes.

(The next day)

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es martes.

(The next day)

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es miércoles.

(The next day)

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es jueves.

(The next day)

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es viernes.

(The next day)

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es sábado.

(The next day)

T: ¿Qué días es hoy?

D: Es domingo.

 Dejah Harley and Tina Wang

Learning the Days of the week is very simple in Espanol.

In order to learn them you must know:

*The Days  of the week

*Instead of Sunday being the first day of the week like in the English calender, Monday is the first day of the week.

*the days of the are always lowercase.

Days of the Week:

lunes: Monday

martes: Tuesday

miercoles: Wednesday

jueves: Thursday

viernes: Friday

sabado: saturday

domingo: Sunday

Learning Months

I created a sculpture that was inspired by using sustainable materials. I took an idea that was close to me and put the idea in effect using things that were recycled. By using materials that were already created put this type of art into perspective. 

For me, I make decisions about my work by planning. I am a natural planner, often over-thinking, so most of my ideas were hashed out before I started creating the sculpture. I selected materials that were relevant to the project. Recycled bottle caps, cardboard and paper were the focal point. In another way, I chose things that are not normally used in art outside of arts-and-crafts projects. Though I knew what I was building, the type of materials were selected and used as I began making it. 

The idea was started when I wanted to share something about my life. I chose something relatively new to my life. I found out I had a thyroid disorder at the beginning of ninth grade. It's something of a side story in my life. It's not a focal point and that's why I chose to focus on it. My work was about my personal experience with thyroid disease as well as general information about it and how it can affect a person. 

Describing the weather conditions

1. Asking someone what’s the weather like.

2. When you want to ask what’s the weather like, you can say:

     ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?

     -There are many ways to answer that question, they are:

Hace (mucho)…          It’s (very)…

    frio                                cold

              calor                              hot

              viento                            windy

              sol                                 sunny

              fresco                            cool

            Está…                It’s…

               nublado                        cloudy

               lloviendo/llueve           raining/rains

               nevando/nieva              snowing/snows

               húmedo                        humid

    -If you want to say mostly and partly you would say:

      mayormente                mostly

      parcialmente               partly

Basic Conversation Questions

1. Getting to know the new student.

2. You would use certain questions for different people such as when your trying to know someone ‘s name.

For an adult you would say ¿Cómo se llama? And when your talking to a little kid you would say ¿Cómo te llamas?

 -When you want to know someone’s name you can say:

¿ Cómo te llamas (tú)? / ¿Cómo se llama (Ud.)?      

 -There are three ways to say my name is, they are:

 Me llamo________

 Yo soy_________

 Mi nombre es_________

-If you want to ask someone how old are they, you can say:

 ¿Cuanto anos tienes?

-You can answer this question by saying the number in español like:

  uno

dos

tres

cuatro

cinco, ect.

-Then when you want to say bye to someone you can say:

 ¡Chao! 

Greetings/ Saludos

1. When seeing a new person and want to say hi.

2.  Español                                    English

    ¡Hola!                                                 Hi!

    ¡Buenos días!                            Good morning!

    ¿Qué tal?                                     How are you?

    Bein gracias!                                       Good, thank you!

   ¿Y tu?                                                 And you?

Chao                                            Bye!

¡Buenas Tardes!                      Good, evening!     

¡Buenas noches!                      Good, night or Good afternoon

Notice there are two explanation points, because then the person saying it can tell if it’s a statement or a question. Also, BuenOs and BuneAs , one has an O , and the others have A. That’s because the O is masculine and one is feminine.

               * Days of the week

1.     Teaching students how to write and say the days of the week.

2.     When you write the days of the week, you do not capitalize it and you use “Es” before it. Here’s how the words look:

   Es…          It’s…

          lunes.                                                           Monday.

          martes.                                                        Tuesday.

 miércoles.                                                  Wednesday.

 jueves.                                                         Thursday.

 viernes.                                   Friday.

 sábado.                                  Saturday.

 domingo.                                  Sunday.

                 Courtesy Phrases

1.     Using Buenos modales (good manners)

2.     * There are three ways to say excuse me to someone:

  -Con permisio

  -Perdón

  -Disculpe

_If your going somewhere and someone is in your way you would say “con permisio”.

_If you want to get someone’s attention you would say “disculpe”.

_When you bump someone you would say “perdon”.

* There are three type of ways to say thanks and three ways to say your 

  welcome:     

             Thanks-

                  Gracias…..Thanks.

                  Muchas gracias…..Thanks a lot.

                  Mil gracias…..Thanks a million.   

You can say certain ones of these three anytime you want to say thank you. For example:

 _Your teacher checks your homework: Gracias

_Your friend helps you with classwork you don’t understand: Muchas gracias

_Someone finds your wallet: Mil gracias

Your welcome-

     De nada

     Por nada

    No hay de qué.

* If you want to say please to someone or ask what they say, you can say:

¿Como?.....What was that?

Por favor…..Please

               * Tú vs. Ud. Questions

      Explanation to teach topic:

1.     Greeting your friends and their parents.

2.     Explanation to teach topic:

There are two type of ways to greet someone-informal and formal.

When you use informal you would use tú and when you use formal you would use usted (ud.).

When you are talking to your amigos you would use tú and when your  talking to your amigo’s parents, you would use ud.

              You would use ud. when talking to an adult to show a sign of respect.

                Example:

                Tú:

                ¿Como estás (tú)?.....How are you?

                ¿Como te llamas (tú)?....What’s your name?             

                ¿De dónde eres (tú)?....Where do you from?

                ¿Cuántos años tienes (tú)?.....How old are you?

                Ud.:

                ¿Como es (ud.)?...How are you?

                ¿Como se llama (ud.)?...What’s your name?

                ¿De dónde es (ud.)?.....Where are you from?

                ¿Cuántos años tiene (ud.)?.... How old are you?

     Notice how there are marking on top of certain letters. And there are two question marks, an upside down one in the front and a regular one in the back. We put two question marks or two exclamation point in front of a sentence so you would know if the sentence is a question or a statement.

                Months, Dates

                     1. Finding out cousins birthday

                     2. When you write the months you don’t capitalize it.

                          If you want to ask someone what’s today’s date, you can say:

                             ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?......What’s today’s date?

                          When you want to respond to this question you can say:

                              Hoy es el # de (mes)……. It’s the # of (month)

                  When you write the date you would write it like this en español:

      Number/month-

 Ex. 21/02…..the 21 of febrero/February

                -OR-

 Es el veintiuno de febrero