Tuesday, February 23

Hi everyone,

Today we did some of the exercises from the book for Chapter 3.

We started with the dialogue on page 62, which we did in groups. Everyone seemed to understand it well.

Then we reviewed all the adjectives we have learned that can be used to describe people, from pages 63 and 64. We talked briefly about the use of ser and estar with these adjectives (mostly ser!) Then we mixed up the groups a little and had everyone take turns describing a real or imaginary person using the vocabulary. At the end, we had a few people stand up in front of the class and talk about their person. Not everyone who wanted to talk got to talk, because we had to stop for the break.

After the break, we moved on to the -er and -ir verbs. We reviewed how to conjugate them, and then practiced using exercise A on p. 69 (some people also did exercise B on p. 70). Everyone seemed to understand this well. Then we talked about tener and venir, and I reminded them about using tener for age. Everyone seemed fine with the conjugation, but there was some confusion about "tener que" even after I explained it. We stopped there and didn't do any of the exercises on page 71.

For homework, I asked them to do the first four pages of the photocopy for tomorrow, but I told them that it wouldn't actually be collected until they had finished the whole packet.

In this chapter, we still need to talk about using "a" before people that are objects (p. 72), but we are pretty close to being done. I did not tell them when the quiz or the test will be . . . I don't even know whether there will be a quiz or not. Is the test on Monday? We should tell them!

I didn't have any more problems with people leaving early.