Showing posts with label final exam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label final exam. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Final Exam: Study Guide!

Chicos, 

Here is our 60 question study guide! Remember, our final exam will be split into two days to accommodate all of our learning targets (listening, speaking, reading, and writing).

1.     Give me two ways to say hello
2.     Give me two ways to say good bye
3.     What is the difference between tú and usted?
4.     ¿Cómo te llamas?
5.     ¿Cómo estás?
6.     ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
7.     ¿Cuál es la fecha?
8.     ¿Qué necesitas para la clase de español?
9.     ¿Qué necesitas para la clase de matemáticas?
10.   ¿Qué necesitas para la clase de arte?
11.   ¿Cuántos años tienes?
12.   ¿De dónde eres?
13.   ¿Cómo eres?
14.   ¿Cuál clase es tu favorita y por qué?
15.   ¿Quién es tu mejor amigo?
16.   ¿Cómo es tu mejor amigo?
17.   What is the capital of México?
18.   What is the capital of Spain?
19.   Where is Costa Rica?
20.   Where is Spain?
21.   ¿Quién es la madre de tu madre?
22.   ¿Quién es la hermana de tu padre?
23.   ¿Quién es la hija de tus padres?
24.   ¿De dónde es tu abuela?
25.   ¿Cuántos años tiene tu tío?
26.   ¿Cómo son tus hermanos?
27.   ¿Cómo es tu primo?
28.   ¿Cuántos cuartos hay en tu casa?
29.   ¿Qué hay en tu dormitorio?
30.   ¿Qué hay en una cocina?
31.   ¿Qué hay en una sala?
32.   ¿Dónde está tu baño?
33.   ¿Dónde está tu garaje?
34.   ¿Cuál clase tienes el la primera hora?
35.   ¿Cuál clase tienes en la cuarta hora?
36.   ¿Cuál clase tienes en la séptima hora?
37.   ¿Qué llevas a la escuela?
38.   ¿Qué necesitas para la clase de ingles?
39.   ¿Qué necesitas para la clase de ciencia?
40.   ¿Qué necesitas para la clase de matemáticas?
41.   ¿Qué haces después de las clases?
42.   ¿Qué haces entre las clases?
43.   ¿Qué tienes que hacer después de las clases?
44.   ¿Qué vas a hacer después de las clases?
45.   ¿Qué te gusta hacer?
46.   ¿Qué no te gusta hacer?
47.   ¿A qué le gusta hacer tu mejor amigo?
48.   ¿Qué comes en el desayuno?
49.   ¿Qué comes en el almuerzo? 
50.   ¿Qué comes en el almuerzo?
51.   ¿Qué comes en la cena?
52.   ¿Dónde corres?
53.   ¿Cómo vas al restaurante?
54.   ¿Cómo vas a la isla?
55.   ¿Qué haces en el gimnasio?
56.   ¿Qué tienes que hacer hoy?
57.   ¿Qué llevas a la escuela?
58.   ¿Qué quieres llevar a la escuela?
59.   ¿Qué llevas cuando hace frio?
60.   ¿Qué llevas cuando hace calor?
61.   ¿Cuánto cuesta una camisa, unos pantalones,
     y unos zapatos?

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Lots and lots of vocabulary review!

Top 10 Greetings/Goodbyes/Introductions
Hola. – Hi
Buenos días. – Good Morning.
Buenas tardes. – Good afternoon.
Buenas noches. – Good night.
¿Cómo estás (tú)?/¿Cómo está usted? – How are you?
¿Cómo te llamas?/¿Cómo se llama? – What is your name?
Me llamo… - My name is…
Se llama… - His/Her name is…
Hasta luego/Hasta mañana. – See you later/See you tomorrow.
Adiós. – Goodbye.

Numbers 0-31
0 - cero
1 – uno
2 – dos
3 – tres
4 – cuatro
5 – cinco
6 – seis
7 – siete
8 – ocho
9 – nueve
10 – diez
11 – once
12 – doce
13 – trece
14 – catorce
15 – quince
16 – dieciséis
17 – diecisiete
18 – dieciocho
19 – diecinueve
20 – veinte
21 – veintiuno
22 – veintidós
23 – veintitrés
24 – veinticuatro
25 – veinticinco
26 – veintiséis
27 – veintisiete
28 – veintiocho
29 – veintinueve
30 – treinta
31 – treinta y uno

Top 10 Time phrases
de la mañana – A.M.
de la tarde – P.M. (afternoon)
de la noche – P.M. (night)
medianoche (midnight)
mediodía - noon
cuarto - quarter
media - half
¿Qué hora es/son? – What time is it?
¿A qué hora? – At what time?
Es la una. Son las…-It is one o’clock. It is…o’clock

Months/Days/Seasons
enero - January
febrero - February
marzo - March
abril - April
mayo - May
junio - June
julio - July
agosto - August
septiembre - September
octubre - October
noviembre -  November
diciembre - December
lunes - Monday
martes - Tuesday
miércoles - Wednesday
jueves - Thursday
viernes - Friday
sábado - Saturday
domingo - Sunday
la primavera - spring
el verano - summer
el otoño - fall
el invierno - winter

Numbers 32-100
32 – treinta y dos
33 – treinta y tres
34 – treinta y cuatro
35 – treinta y cinco
36 – treinta y seis
37 – treinta y siete
38 – treinta y ocho
39 – treinta y nueve
40 – cuarenta
50 – cincuenta
60 – sesenta
70 – setenta
80 – ochenta
90 – noventa
100 – cien

Top adjectives
alt@ - tall
baj@ - short
simpátic@ - nice
rubi@ - blonde
moren@ - dark-haired/dark-skinned
pelirroj@ - redheaded
delgad@ - thin
guap@ - good-looking
aburrid@ - boring
perezos@ - lazy

Top Question Words
¿Qué? – What?
¿Cómo? – How?/What?
¿Cuándo? – When?
¿Dónde? – Where?
¿Adónde? – To where?
¿De dónde? – From where?
¿Cuál?/¿Cuáles? – Which?
¿Quién?/¿Quiénes? Who?
¿Por qué? - Why
¿Cuánto(s)?/¿Cuánta(s)? – How much/how many?

Top 10 Activities 
(some regular, some irregular* verbs)
leer – read
escuchar música – to listen to music
dibujar – to draw
ir* al cine – to go to the movies
ver (yo = veo)  televisión – to watch television
bailar – to dance
hablar por teléfono – to talk on the phone
jugar (UUE) – to play (a sport)
escribir – to write
tocar – to play (an instrument)

Top Regular –AR verbs
estudiar - to study
dibujar – to draw
pasar el rato – to spend time
comprar – to buy
tomar - to take/to drink
ayudar – to help
cocinar – to cook
contestar – to answer
llevar – to wear/to take/to carry
pagar – to pay

Top Regular –ER
aprender – to learn
saber – to know (information)*
conocer – to know (people)*
comer – to eat
vender - to sell
beber – to drink
leer - to read
entender – to understand
correr – to run
deber – should (+infinitive)
ver – to see*

Top Regular  –IR 
añadir – to add
vivir – to live
asistir – to attend
decidir – to decide
interrumpir – to interrupt
salir – to leave/to go out*
recibir – to receive



Top Weather Expressions
Hace buen tiempo. – The weather is nice.
Hace calor. – It is hot.
Hace frío. – It is cold.
Hace fresco. – It is cool out.
Hace viento. – It is windy
Hace sol. – It is sunny.
Hace mal tiempo. – The weather is bad.
Nieva./Está nevando. – It is snowing.
Llueve./Está lloviendo. – It is raining.
Está nublado. – It is cloudy.

Top School Supplies
el lápiz - pencil
el cuaderno - notebook
el papel - paper
la mochila - backpack
el diccionario - dictionary
el bolígrafo - pen
la computadora - computer
la carpeta - folder
las tijeras - scissors

Top School Subjects
el español - Spanish
el inglés - English
la historia - history
la geografía – geography
la biología - biology
la química - chemistry
la educación física – P.E.
el álgebra - algebra
las matemáticas - mathematics

Top TENER idioms
tener ___ años – to be ___ years old
tener ganas de…(+infinitive) – to feel like doing something
tener calor/tener frío - to be hot/cold
tener hambre/tener sed – to be hungry/thirsty
tener que (+infinitive) – to have to do something
tener sueño – to be tired


Top Family Members
la familia - family
el padre/el papá – father/dad
la madre/la mamá – mother/mom
los padres - parents
el hermano/la hermana – brother/sister
los hermanos - siblings
el tío/la tía – uncle/aunt
el primo/la prima – male/female cousin
el abuelo/la abuela – grandpa/grandma
la mascota - pet

Top Home Words
el cuarto - bedroom
el comedor – dining room
la sala – living room
la cocina - kitchen
el garaje - garaje
el baño - bathroom
la ventana - window
la puerta - door
la mesa - table
la cama - bed

Top Chores
hacer la cama – to make the bed
cortar el césped – to mow the lawn
desempolvar – to dust
lavar los platos – to wash the dishes
cocinar – to cook
pasar la aspiradora – to vacuum
arreglar...(room) – to tidy
limpiar – to clean

Top Ten E to IE Stem-Changing Verbs
tener – to have
entender – to understand
querer – to want
venir – to come
empezar – to start
pensar – to think/to plan
preferir – to prefer
sentir – to feel
cerrar – to close


Top O to UE Stem-Changing Verbs
dormir – to sleep
encontrar – to find
poder (+infinitive) – to be able to
costar – to cost
probar – to try/to taste
recordar – to remember
volver – to return (to a place)

Top E to I Stem-Changing Verbs
servir – to serve
decir – to tell
repetir – to repeat

Top Food/Drink
la leche - milk
el refresco – soft drink
la ensalada - salad
el helado – ice cream
el pan - bread
la carne - meat
el pollo - chicken
el pescado - fish
el arroz - rice
los frijoles - beans

Top Clothing Items
el zapato - shoe
la camisa – shirt
la camiseta – t-shirt
los pantalones - pants
el vestido - dress
la chaqueta - jacket
los calcetines - socks
los vaqueros - jeans
el traje de baño – bathing suit
la falda - skirt

Top Colors 
rojo - red
azul – blue
verde – green
amarillo – yellow
morado – purple
blanco – white
negro – black
anaranjado – orange
gris – gray
café – brown


Friday, March 21, 2014

Buenos dias chicos, 

I hope you all enjoy your weekend! 

We have already arrived at the end of March! That means our monthly current event is due. But, because our last news article was just due, let's change it up! 



March's current event will be 100% done online, on this blog! There are 5 current events posted from countries all around the Spanish speaking world. Please take a look at them all! 
Then, pick TWO articles to comment on. 

Your comments need to be well thought out, reflective, and interesting. 
Tell in complete English sentences what you thought about the news article, why you liked or disliked it, how it made you feel, and how it relates to your life or our class. 

You are required to comment on TWO articles to get credit for this assignment. However, there are 5 articles in all, and if you decide to write about more than two, you will receive extra credit!


Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Last 24 hours for extra credit!!!! Post your comments now!

Chicos, 

Please submit your comments on the five current events today! 
 Remember that each comment you post is 5 extra credit points!

Grades must be turned in by Friday morning, so turn them in ASAP!

Gracias, 
Srta. Shannon

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Current Event 5: Honduras

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25346676


Honduras: Juan Orlando Hernandez confirmed as president

Honduras' president-elect Juan Orlando Hernandez in Managua on 4 December, 2013Mr Hernandez ran on a law-and-order platform

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The Honduran electoral tribunal (TSE) has confirmed governing party candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez's win in last month's election.
The result of the 24 November poll is contested by the defeated candidate, Xiomara Castro.
The TSE officially declared Mr Hernandez president for a four-year term from 27 January 2014.
Ms Castro, whose husband Manuel Zelaya was ousted as president in 2009, has demanded the election be annulled.
'Robbed'
She said she had been robbed of her victory by "fraud".
Supporters of Xiomara Castro shout during a protest against the results of the presidential election in Tegucigalpa on 1 December, 2013 Supporters of Ms Castro's Libre Party have demanded an annulment of the poll
Mr Hernandez won 36.9% of the vote with Ms Castro coming second with 28.8%, according to results released by the TSE on Saturday.
The TSE said there was a difference of more than 250,000 votes between the two candidates.
Ms Castro alleges there were "inconsistencies" in thousands of tally sheets, which she alleges were "doctored" in favour of the governing party.
She also said that the voter registry included people who were dead or abroad, and that polling stations were poorly monitored.
Ms Castro and her husband have called on their supporters to march to the TSE on Thursday, the second such protest since the election.
Following Mr Hernandez's confirmation as president, the Organisation of American States (OAS) urged Hondurans to unite behind their elected leader.
"I call on all the citizens of Honduras to recognise, as it should be, their new president, and for the government and the opposition to unite to confront the urgent challenges which this American country faces," OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said in a statement.
Divisive ousting
Ms Castro was standing for the Libre Party, created after the ousting from office of her husband.
Xiomara Castro (right) and her husband Manuel Zelaya participate in a protest against the results of the presidential election in Tegucigalpa on 1 December, 2013Analysts say Mr Zelaya is trying to stage a comeback as part of his wife's team
Mr Zelaya's removal from office - which the Honduran truth commission said had been a coup - left the country deeply divided and triggered a wave of protests.
Analysts say Mr Zelaya, who could not run for president again, was attempting a comeback as part of his wife's team.
Mr Hernandez, whose National Party backed the ousting of Mr Zelaya, has vowed to restore order to Honduras, which has the highest homicide rate in the world.

Current Event 4: Uruguay

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica-humble-leader-donates


Is Uruguay’s president José Mujica the world's most humble leader?

Uruguay’s President lives in a farmhouse, flies economy and donates most of his salary to social projects. How does your country's leader compare?

José Mujica, the Uruguayan president, at his house in Montevideo.
José Mujica, the Uruguayan president, at his house in Montevideo. Photograph: MARIO GOLDMAN/AFP/Getty Images
José Mujica, President of Uruguay, made the headlines last year for his humble lifestyle, offering a stark contrast to the lavish lives of many modern day politicians.
Speaking to the Guardian from his small one-bedroom Montevideo home, Mujica says he realises that asking his counterparts to adopt a more sober lifestyle may not go down well.
However, as Pope Francis preaches humility, calling on hundreds of Argentinians not to fly to Rome to celebrate with him but to donate the money they would have spent on travel to the poor, is the tide changing on world leaders leading extravagant lives?
How do your politicians compare? And who do you think is leading the way? Share your stories in the thread.

Current Event 3: Cuba

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/obama-shakes-hands-cubas-raul-castro-21158775


Obama Shakes Hands With Cuba's Raul Castro

It was the briefest of moments, just seconds, two presidents shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries amid a gaggle of world leaders together to honor the late Nelson Mandela.
It would hardly have been noteworthy, except the men locking hands in Johannesburg were Barack Obama and Raul Castro, whose nations have been mired in Cold War antagonism for more than five decades.
A single, cordial gesture is unlikely to wash away bad blood dating back to the Eisenhower administration. But in a year that has seen both sides take small steps at improving the relationship, the handshake stoked talk of further rapprochement.
"On the one hand you shouldn't make too much of this. Relations between Cuba and the United States are not changing tomorrow because they shook hands," said Geoff Thale, a Cuba analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a U.S.-based think tank.
He contrasted the moment to a 2002 development summit where then-Mexican President Vicente Fox asked Fidel Castro to leave to avoid having him in the same room as U.S. President George W. Bush.
"What's really striking here is the contrast," Thale said. "It's a modestly hopeful sign, and it builds on the small steps that they're taking."
Not everyone was so happy about it.
"Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raul Castro, it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American congresswoman from Florida who until January 2013 was chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Obama and Castro's encounter was the first of its kind between sitting U.S. and Cuban presidents since Bill Clinton and Fidel shook hands at the U.N. in 2000.
It came as Obama greeted a line of world leaders on his way to the podium for a speech at the memorial.
Obama also had a cheek-kiss for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. The two have clashed over reports the National Security Agency monitored her communications, leading the Brazilian leader to shelve a state trip to the U.S. earlier this year.
In another potentially uneasy exchange, Obama briefly greeted Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whose refusal to sign a security agreement with the U.S. before year's end has irritated the administration.
Obama adviser Ben Rhodes said the handshakes were not planned in advance and didn't involve any substantive discussion. "The president didn't see this as a venue to do business," he told reporters traveling back to Washington aboard Air Force One.
By shaking Castro's hand, Obama sent a message of openness that echoes a speech he gave at a Democratic fundraiser in Miami last month.
"We have to continue to update our policies," he said then. "Keep in mind that when (Fidel) Castro came to power, I was just born. So the notion that the same policies that we put in place in 1961 would somehow still be as effective as they are today in the age of the Internet and Google and world travel doesn't make sense."
As president, Obama has lifted limits on how often Cuban-Americans can visit family back on the island, and how much they can send home in remittances. He also reinstated "people-to-people" cultural exchange tours to Cuba. The result is more than a half-million U.S. visitors to the island each year.

Current Event 1: Spain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10376516/Church-beatifies-522-martyrs-of-Spanish-Civil-War.html?fb

Church beatifies 522 'martyrs' of Spanish Civil War

Spain's Catholic Church has beatified 522 "martyrs", mostly clerics killed during the Spanish Civil War, prompting fury from Franco-era victims' groups who say the honour "legitimised" his dictatorship.

Franco
After Francisco Franco's victory, Nationalist forces executed some 50,000 Republicans. Photo: Getty Images
The mass kicked off with a pre-recorded video greeting by Pope Francis, rebuffing an umbrella association of groups who said the beatification would be a "political act of pro-Franco affirmation" by the Church.
"I join all the participants in the celebration with all my heart," the pope said to long applause from the thousands attending the beatification mass in the eastern coastal city of Tarragona.
Spanish media described the event as "the biggest ever beatification in the history of the Church".
Historians have estimated that about 500,000 people from both sides were killed in the 1936-1939 war. After Francisco Franco's victory, Nationalist forces executed some 50,000 Republicans. Franco's dictatorship lasted until his death in 1975.
Several thousand priests, monks and nuns were thought to have died at the hands of the Spanish republic's mainly left-wing defenders, among whom anti-Church sentiment was strong.
The Spanish Catholic Church apparently sought to sidestep the controversy by referring to the 522 to be beatified as "martyrs of the 20th century in Spain".
But Pope Francis on Sunday was more explicit, saying at the Vatican that they were "martyrs killed for their faith during the Spanish Civil War."
The umbrella association of dozens of groups supporting Franco-era victims had written to him, saying: "Under the guise of a religious act, the (Catholic) hierarchy is committing a political act of pro-Franco affirmation."
The Platform for a Truth Commission added: "You should know that the Catholic Church backed Franco's military uprising against the Spanish Republic in 1936."
The Church "considered the war 'a crusade' by backing the generals who revolted, (and) legitimised the fascist dictatorship and the fierce repression that it afflicted on the Spanish," said the letter published Friday.
It has "forgotten the victims of Francoist repression", the letter said.
Some more progressive sections of the Spanish Catholic Church, a minority in Spain, also opposed the beatification, saying it would reopen the wounds of the past.
In addition to 515 Spaniards, three French, and a citizen each from Cuba, Colombia, the Philippines and Portugal were among those beatified, which is the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Spain's conservative government was represented at Sunday's beatification mass by the justice and interior ministers, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon and Jorge Fernandez Diaz.
Nearly 4,000 family members or descendants attended the mass at an education complex, along with some 2,700 clerics, according to organisers.
The youngest of the "martyrs", Jose Sanchez Rodriguez, "was killed at age 18 against the wall of a cemetery" in Madrid at dawn on August 18, 1936, along with seven other clerics, by a group of militiamen, according to the Madrid diocese.
The oldest, Sister Aurora Lopez Gonzalez, had fled her convent near Madrid in July 1936 when it was "taken over by revolutionaries". She was executed some five months later aged 86.
The Vatican has regularly beatified Spanish Civil War victims.
In 2007, Francis's predecessor Benedict XVI staged the Vatican's largest previous beatification ceremony, involving 498 victims of religious persecution during the war.
Edited by Bonnie Malkin