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Weather

Weather is like the easiest subject to learn in Español. Your just basically giving a one word answer on how the weather is using hace or esta, which means it’s or it is.

Example:

rainy: hace lloviendo

snowy: está nevando 

If you want to say the temperature is either good or bad you just say; mal for bad or bien for good. Some temperature is pronounce to its meaning in English or to a word that means the same

Example:

hace  (bastante) frio - it’s (very) cold     está (mayormente) nublado - it’s (mostly) cloudy 

hace (bastante) calor - it’s (very) hot      está (mayormente) húmedo - it’s (mostly) humid 

hace (bastante) sol - it’s (very) sunny     está (mayormente) lloviendo - it’s (mostly)

                                                                 rainy         

hace (bastante) viento - it’s (very) windy  está (mayormente) nevando - it’s (mostly)

                                            snowy 

Weather:

For this video to teach the weather, we’re going to do a fake weather forecast. First the two girls are going to turn on the television to the weather channel and the anchor is going to tell them how the weather is in Spanish .

Dates

Numbers in Spanish are also very different from English. The first letter in the word 

also start with lower case. In Spanish the date comes before the month as in English the month comes before the date, but the year still goes last.

Example:

  English:                         Spanish:

6/12/09                          12/6/09

Dates are very important if you want to know when your homework is due, when somebody birthday is and when something expires.

Months and Dates:

This video is about a husband forgetting his wife birthday. She is going to throw around a couple of hints like for example she’s going to say all the months in Spanish and say something like aren't you forgetting something.

Months 

Months and Dates are very different from each other in Spanish and English . In Spanish the first letter of a word is lower case while in English it’s upper case 

Spanish Months: 

enero	febrero	marzo
abril	mayo	junio
julio	agosto	septiembre
octubre	noviembre	diciembre

 English Months:

January	February	March
April	May	June
July	August	September
October	November	December

As you can see in the chat there are some words that look the same as in English but some look very different and is spelled different . The most common misspelled  Spanish months are :

agosto - august

septiembre - september

octubre - october 

noviembre - november

diciembre - december 

This powerpoint explain u Tu and Usted like the correct way to use it!




Intro: Because I'm a celebrity its Usted! 

This video explain the difference of how  to use usted and y Tu

Video click here 

Icebreaker:

In order to make basic conversation, you need to know:

Here is a video of a girl meeting a new student making conversation at SLA.

To know the months in español, you must first know the months of the year in english.  After that it gets pretty simple, you just learn how to pronounce them in spanish.
Enero  (january)    Febrero  (february)    Marzo  (march)    Abril  (april)    Mayo  (mayo)   
Junio  (june)  Julio  (july)    Agosto  (august)    septiembre  (september)    octubre  (october)    
noviembre  (november)    diciembre  (december)

Those are the months of the year, I personally had a lot of fun when learning this for the first time.  I hope you will have the same experience.

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/file/d/0B7tlFAq13C0MNzZZZ3JsVmt0YVE/editClick here to see how to use formal and informal terms in Spanish.

http://goanimate.com/videos/0rJbpkEQ2QHA/1

Hello, today we are going to learn the most basic piece of the spanish language.  Can anyone guess. That's right the alphabet.  In spanish, though, it is pronounced "El alfabeto."  It is actually very easy learn and it can be pretty fun.  Here are some really cool fun facts about the spanish language is , 
1. There are only 27 letters in the spanish language, where as there are only 26 in the english language.
2. Unlike the english alphabet, where all the letters are uppercase, all letters in the spanish alfabeto are lower-case letters
Here are the letters of the spanish language

Ay dios mios weather:

In order to know the weather you need to know:

Here is a video of Carlos describing the weather outside:

  Do I need my umbrella?

  When on vacation in a spanish speaking country, you have to know how to understand how to ask and tell the weather


* you have to understand how to tell what the weather weather ( Hace ... OR   tiempo ....) the weather today is 

* you have to know how to ask what the weather is like ( ¿ Qué timepo hace hoy ..... ) 

* you have to know the little words inside other words to remember them easily ( húmedo=humid ) 

Watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/52681525

The days of the week in espanol have rules just as well as the months. There is no capital letter in the front unless its the first word in the sentence. 
Remember when writing them, to always put the accents over the right letters. The whole thing can be wrong if you forget. 
Lastly, on the spanish calendar the week doesn't start on Sunday. It starts on Monday. 
 
-When speaking you might also hear the following words:
1. "el día" which means day.
2. "la semana" which means week.
3. "hoy" which means today.

Go to the following link in order to quiz yourself and also to hear the pronunciation of the words: http://quizlet.com/13861290/days-months-spanish-flash-cards/

The chart below shows the relationship to the day of the week in english and in espanol. 

Watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/52681523

Lesson

When meeting a Spanish speaking exchange student for the first time, it would be best to speak to them in their own language. These are the phrases that you need to know in order to do it:

Common greetings (Hola, buenos días, tardes, noches)
Conversation questions (How are you?, What's your name?, How old are you?, Where are you from?, When's your birthday?)
Ways to say goodbye (Hasta mañana, Hasta luego, Adios)

​Intro to video:

In this video, we will show a real life application of Español by demonstrating how to conduct a basic conversation with an exchange student. We will use phrases and words such as Hola, Cómo te llamas, and Cúantos años tienes tú.

Watch a video here: https://vimeo.com/52681521

Watch a video here: https://vimeo.com/52681524

Some other spanish words that are helpful to know are the days of the week or los días de la semana.
If you want to aks someone what day it is, you would say "¿Qué día es hoy?". 
If you want to hear how to pronounce the days of the week, click here.

Remember!
In spanish, the days of the week are NOT capitalized!

Below is a chart that shows the days of the week in english and in spanish.

Introduction to Video:

Here's a video showing Mia asking Jackie when the project was due.

Introduction to Video:

Here is a video showing Micaela and Yolanda greeting each other on the first day of school.

This is a chart of all the ways to greet people in Español : )

click here for a video of two friends meeting up, who use spanish greetings 

Click HERE for a video

​This will help you learn how to say the weather in Spanish by:
- Teaching you how to describe the weather (ex. hot,cold,warm,rainy,windy, cloudy,etc.)
- Teaching you how to say how many degrees the weather is
- How to ask the weather

http://quizlet.com/15511830/%C2%BFque-tiempo-hace-flash-cards/

Intro to Video
In this video we will be telling you the weather forecast in Spanish. We will describe the weather in many ways such as:
Asking the weather (Qué tiempo hace?)
- Hace calor
- Hace viento
- Hace sol
- Hace frío
- Hace fresco
- Está nublado (Mayormente or Parcialmente)
- Está nevando
- Está lloviendo
We will also include how many degrees the weather is along with the different forecasts of the weather.

Click here for a video of this situation.

Frases de Cortesía (Courtesy Phrases)

Lesson 3
This lesson will help you learn how to be polite to others when speaking in Spanish.
It will help you learn how to thank someone, reply to someone, excuse yourself, and say please.

Part 1

Spanish	English
¡Gracias! ¡Muchas gracias! ¡Muy amable gracias!	Thank you! Thank you very much! That’s kind of you, thank you!
De nada/ por nada	You’re welcome
¡Disculpe!	Excuse me! ( to get an atencion)
¡Perdon!	Excuse me! (sorry)
¡Con Permiso!	Excuse me!
Por favor	Please
No hay de qué.	You’re welcome. (no problem)

Part 2
Excuse me phrases: http://goanimate.com/videos/0G5BUxPLByys/1


Intro to Video
In this video we will be teaching you how to use courtesy phrases. This video shows two strangers who bump into each other. The first person drops their wallet, and the second person calls out to the first person as they need to return it. The first person thanks the second person, who replies in saying your welcome. All of this will be said in Español.

Click here for a video of this situation.