October 19, 2010

Today we did a review for the chapter four quiz. As I was walking to class, Drew handed me a type-written later saying that I am the teacher he has the most problems with. I basically taught the whole class in English. (Well, not really, but it felt that way). I asked them what they wanted to review, and Drew said "ser and estar." So we went over ser and estar, and it turned out a lot of them were confused by things like "tengo hambre" too. After the break we went over the "voy a" construction and stem-changing verbs as a class. I had everyone construct sentences, but we did not do any group work. At the very end I got a chance to do an activity I had prepared, where they correct incorrect sentences, but only for about five minutes. Drew said it was a really great class, but I am pretty concerned that they hardly spoke any Spanish at all. Carlin just sat there listening to his Ipod, but other people seemed pretty engaged, and Mark and Tony got a few good answers in.