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Below are some ways you can have a basic conversation.

Here is a situation were an American student talks to a Spanish exchange student in their native language.

 To learn the days of the week in spanish you must know:
-How they are spelled 
-What order they are in.

The way that the days of the week are spelled                                                      

lunes

Monday                Remember the days of the week are are never capital.

martes                 Also the days start on lunes (Monday) not domingo (Sunday)
Tuesday

miércoles
Wednesday

jueves
Thursday

viernes
Friday

sábado
Saturday

domingo
Sunday

Here is a situation where a student would like to know what day the quiz is on.

In order to get someone's phone number you must know:

-How to ask "What is your phone number?"

-The numbers in general.  

To ask someone for their number you cuål es tu (su if adult) numero de teléfono? "This means what is your phone number?"

The numbers are 1-9 so the person's answer will be in uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, or nueve. The numbers will never go 10 or higher.

After getting help for a homework a student ask for his friends number.

It may seem that it is a lot to remember because there is also on stuff such as how to “today is……” and the six other days of the week. Honestly, it’s not that complicated.

What day is today?: ¿Qué día es hoy? 
It's.....: Es....


Here are links below that will help you with asking the weather in spanish, tell time, and say proper greetings: 
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/How_is_the_weather

​It’s important to know your months and dates in Spanish. It’s not that bad, its basic stuff such as the twelve months, number of the dates, how to say, “today is…” etc. For example, you don’t know your friend’s birthday but you’re trying to memorize the dates and months in Spanish at the same time for school, or practices for whatever.

 Hoy es el # de _______(mes) : It’s the # of ______(month)

 

EXAMPLES:

 es el veintiuno de mayo

(It’s the 21^st of May)

 es el once de junio

(It’s the 11^th of June)

Video Task Introduction:

I was in mexico, and a boy name Brycen came up to me and asked what was the date of today and I responded back in Spanish to him saying the date was October 24. Here’s a video of something like this:

Here are links that will teach you how to ask about the weather, time and how to say proper greetings in spanish:

http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/How_is_the_weather

http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/What_time_is_it:2
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/How

 Have you ever wondered how you can be polite and well mannered to Spanish people around you? Being polite requires sayings like “excuse me”, “thank you”, “your welcome”, “please”, “farewell”, and many more. And here, this lesson will teach you how you can speak/pronounce and write courtesy phrases.

 Imaged if you were on the bus and you need to get off, you would politely like to say "Excuse me" in spanish to a lady who was speaking spanish on the phone earlier. Or you are in a store will a spanish spoken cashier, it'll be polite if you said "thank you" in spanish to the young man. 

The links below will show you how to ask the weather in spanish, ask about time, and how to say proper greetings:
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/How_is_the_weather
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/What_time_is_it:2
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/How

Here is a chart that will help you: 

If you've been saying ¿Cómo te llamas? to random men in ties, then you've been doing it wrong! The proper way is to say ¿Cómo te llama USTED? Because it shows respect,

Haji's links:

Weather

ABC

Days 

Say you meet someone of importance and need to ask their name while showing respect?

Here's a video showing the incorrect and correct terminology: 

Meeting someone for the first time:

Hello: iHola!

What's your name?: ¿Cómo te llama(s) tú/usted?

How are you?: ¿Cómo esta(s) tú/usted?

 

Nice to meet you: ¡Mucho gusto!

Same to you: Igualmente.

Goodbyes:

Bye: ¡Adios!

See you later: ¡Hasta luego!

See you tomorrow: iHasta mañana!

 Haji's links:

Weather

ABC

Days

Say you’re walking down the street and you see a fine girl, but she’s Puerto Rican! What do you say? Here’s a video of this example: 

Day's of the week in Spanish
 lunes- Monday
martes- Tuesday
miércoles -Wednesday
jueves-Thursday
viernes- Friday
sábado- Saturday
domingo- Sunday

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/Days%20of%20week.mov?w=51107396

Alphabet 
A-a
B-ba
C-ca
CH-che
D-de
E-e
F-efe
G-ga
H-hache
I-i
J-jota
K-ca
L-ele
LL-elle
M-eme
N-ene
Ñ-eñe
O-o
P-pe
Q-cu
R-ere
RR-erre
S-ese
T-te
U-u
V-ve
W-doble ve
X-equis
Y-i griega
Z-zeta

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/Alphabet.mov?w=005d0b01


Feelings
Happy- Feliz
Sad/Mad- Mal
So-So- Mas o menos
Great- Excelente
Okay- Bien
¿Cómo está?- How are you

Months 

enero-January

febrero-February

marzo-March

abril-April

mayo-May

junio-June

julio-July

agosto-August

septiembre-September

octubre-October

noviembre-November

diciembre-December

What is your name

¿Como se llama?- What si your name
Me llamo (your name)-My name is (your name)
Mi nombre es (your name


 

​
SPANISH
•Lo que son las cuatro estaciones del ano?

ENGLISH

(LESSON)

INTRODUCTION FOR VIDEO

Here’s a video of Timothy teaching the class the 4 seasons and what they stand for.

​SPANISH

ENGLISH

LESSON

Learn how to say hello, good bye, whats you name, where are you from, and how are you

- Chart
- Video
- puzzle





here is a link to the puzzle

Real life situation: Your meeting a person for the first time and your asking them questions in Spanish.

English	Spanish
¡Hola!	Hello!
¿Qué tal?	How are you?
(Muy) Bien, gracias.	(Very) Well, thanks.
Más o menos.	Alright.
¿Y tú?	¿And you?
¿Cómo te llamas (tú)?	What's your name?
Me llamo	My name is
¿De dónde eres (tú)?	Where are you from?
Soy de	I'm from
Yo también.	Me, too.
¡Adiós!	Bye!

 

            In this topic, you will learn how to tell the weather in Spanish. If your going to Mexico, and you need to know what to wear, then you would have to know your weather in Spanish. For example, if today in Mexico was very cold and it was snowing, your would say “Hace mucho frío y está nevando.”

This topic will teach about how to tell time, and how to ask the time in Spanish. Why do you need to learn this? Because, lets say for example, that you are heading home to your family, but the time for your flight is in Spanish. So, you would need to how to tell time in Spanish if you are going to catch your plane in time. From 2:00 to 12:00, you would say “Son Las….” Then the time. For 1:00, you say “Es la una”.

​Lesson
 
Knowing how to say what time it is.
Knowing quarter after, quarter of, on the dot, :05, :15.
Knowing how to answer people when they ask you what time it is.

- flashcards 
- video
- worksheet

Here is a link to the flashcards 

Real life situation: You need to know what time it is but the person your speaking to only speaks spanish. You need to remember how to ask what time it is and what they are saying!

Hydraulic frac­tur­ing or “frack­ing” (will explain everything about fracking under the EPA)  is a tech­nol­ogy used to extract nat­ural gas that lies within a shale rock for­ma­tion thou­sands of feet beneath the earth’s surface.

minding companies are really pushing fracking really hard because it put up more pay for them and also jobs. they are now trying to buy off homes. so for example they will pay a person who has land on a minding and they will pay them money so that they can drill on their land. Landowners in shale gas drilling areas have reported foul smells in tap water, and toxic chemicals, such as benzene, have been detected in water from wells near drilling sites. In some cases, tap water can even be set aflame because it is contaminated with volatile chemicals because of shale gas drilling. the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted hydraulic fracturing from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, shale gas drillers don’t have to disclose what chemicals they use. 65 chemicals that are probable components of the fracking fluids used by shale gas drillers. These chemicals included benzene, glycol-ethers, toluene, 2-(2-methoxyethoxy) ethanol, and nonylphenols. All of these chemicals have been linked to health disorders when human exposure is too high.

Water contamination from shale gas drilling could be threatening the health of thousands of people. so they way com pines feel about it all is if you feel as though your water or your air is being polluted then you should call who ever is in charge. this way it can be taken care of as soon as possible. the state feel as though its very important that it gets taken care of asap.   

HERE'S A LINK TO ALEX'S LESSON ON HOW TO SPEAK TO YOUR ELDERS IN Español.
http://scienceleadership.org/blog/How_to_speak_with_an_elder-iEN_ESPAOL

​Lesson

Learn the temperature words
How to convert from celsiuis to fahrenheit

- A video of Marcus and I translating the words
- A song of how to say the words in spanish 
- Crossword puzzle
- Flash cards

Here is the link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszXrnocJY0&feature=related

Link to the crossword puzzle: http://puzzle-maker.com/cgi-bin/wswo.cgi

Here is the link to the flash: http://quizlet.com/7613469/%C2%BFque-hora-es-flash-cards/

HERE'S ALEX'S LESSON ON BASIC CONVERSATIONS

  http://scienceleadership.org/blog/How_to_have_a_basic_conversation-iEN_ESPAOL

Ricardo Smith Felix Hayes

Before we start you have to know the important numbers first​       

Uno or Una= 1  You say Una when telling time
Dos= two
tres=three
cuatro=four
cinco=five
sies=six
siete=seven
ocho=eight
nueve=nine
diez=ten
once=eleven
doce=twelve
15minutes=cuarto
30minutes=media
Ok first you state the hour then use y to separate the minutes if any.

You say es la when using 1 or una ex. es la una y dos. I just said 1:02
You use son las for numbers 2-12 for hours. So you state hour then use y to connect for minutes 1-30 if any. So it would be either es la una y diez 1:10 or son las tres y ocho 3:08.

Then for minutes 31-59 you state hour ahead so if it 3:45 you say cuatro which is 4.Then connect minutes to hours with menos. Lastly state how many minutes it would take to get to next hour. Ex. if 5:45 then you say sies menos media

If its AM then you put de la manana
Afternoon PM is de la tarde
Night PM de la noche

            I am lobbying for another Amnesty day. A large amount of the immigrants in America are here illegally. However, a lot of them have been living here peacefully, working, and contributing positively in some way to the United States. Though not all illegal immigrants are contributing positively to the US, all illegal immigrants should still be granted citizenship. That way we can crackdown on more of the crimes going on with them because they actually exist in our system. Deportation is always an option as well, but I feel like prejudice is playing a role in this too. It seems as though the government doesn't want anyone else from outside the country to be here. It's already difficult to get into the US legally, so why on Earth would they let illegal immigrants stay?
            I chose this topic for two reasons. The first reason is simply because it's interesting to know that instead of pardoning people for trying to live a better life, they're wasting their lives away trying to find and deport them. Twelve million is a huge number to be trying to get rid of when we have so many other things to worry about in the US. We might as well just give them citizenship. Most of them aren't planning on leaving anyway. The second is reason is because I understand what these illegal immigrants are going through. I have so many family members in Nigeria praying to get their Visa to come over to visit at least. Most of them have been denied. Their intentions are in no way harmful to the US, they are all healthy beings, and can contribute loads of things to the US but for some reason they were all denied. Nigeria is filled with extremely obvious corruption. Though the US is corrupt as well, they're better off here where the corruption is sugarcoated to the max and can still walk the streets without having to see a huge war tank and it’s launcher pointed in their direction. Basically, these people mean no harm. They're not here purposely to break the rules. They're running from something or looking forward to something, that's pretty much it.

The main supporters of my lobbying idea are immigrants. The main opponents of my lobbying idea are the majority of the government (seeing as how they have yet to have another amnesty day). There is a pending legislation dealing with my lobbying idea. It talks about securing the border and granting the immigrant workers legal access to actual jobs.

Ricardo Smith Felix Hayes
Band X

What is today-¿Que dis es hoy?

What was yesterday-¿Que dis ayer tue?

What is tomorrow?-¿Que dis Manana Sera?

Monday-Lunes

Tuesday-Martes

Wednesday-Mièrcoles

Thursday-Jueves

Friday-Viernes

Saturday-Sabado

Sunday-Domango

​Here are some Basic- Everyday Spanish Greetings:

Hola-Hello
Adios-Goodbye
Como te llamas-What is your name
Como estas-How are you?
Qual es la Fecha de hoy?-What is today's date
Que tiempo hace oy?-What is the weather?

Buenos Dias-Good morning
Buenas noches-Goodnight/evening
Buenas Tardes-Good afternoon                                                               

1. First, here are some basic things you need to know in order to tell time in spanish.

Una= 1 (in time-telling una means one.)
Dos= two
tres=three
cuatro=four
cinco=five
sies=six
siete=seven
ocho=eight
nueve=nine
diez=ten
once=eleven
doce=twelve


      2. Esla VS. Son las
You say Esla when you say anytime that has the hour of 1.
Son Las when you use any other hour

Felix Hayes Ricardo Smith
Band X


What's The Weather like-¿Que Tiempo Hace Hoy?

Sunny-Hace Hoy


Windy-Hace Viento


Snowy-Esta Nevando


Cloudy-Esta Nublado


Rainy-Esta Hoviendo

 
Now is a video to let u see how it's pronounced