Tom and I had a good class today. We started with introductions (yet again since it was Tom's first day). Based on Kara's suggestions, he then went over the difference between nouns and -AR verbs, and the gender of nouns, to help clarify some of the confusion that some of the students had.
I went over their homework from the Práctica (p. 45). Like Kara mentioned, some students heard the assignment at the end of class and others hadn't. Together we found the -AR verbs in the sentences and conjugated them for additional practice. As we went over the exercise, we also reviewed how to form questions and negative sentences, and refreshed their memory on the gender of nouns.
We were interrupted at this point by a fire alarm. After a brief break outside, we had to change classrooms. We then read the few sentences (Práctica C) aloud together. I asked questions about the reading so that they could hear different ways of asking question, work on basic reading comprehension, and responding verbally to questions.
Tom taught the possessive - form of "de" - and then I went over possessive adjectives briefly. We didn't do any exercises to practice this because guys were starting to leave as it neared 5 pm.
We asked them to finish the Lección 2 workbook exercise for tomorrow - they complained a bit, but should have it done. Also, I said we'd have a quiz over Lección 2 on Friday since we've now covered all of that material - a postponement from last week's planned quiz. I'll bring corrected homework for lesson 1 to tomorrow's meeting so that Friday's teachers can return it.
I agree with Kara that we should postpone the exam. We haven't even started the 3rd chapter. Maybe it'll go quickly, but I feel like things are taking longer than initially imagined.
See you all tomorrow at 6:30 PM at the Peet's in Temescal.
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