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?

May Current Event due THIS FRIDAY! Last Current Event of the YEAR!!

Buenas tardes chicos, 

We have already arrived at the end of May! That means our monthly current event is due. 

May's current event will be 100% done online, on this blog! There are 4 current events posted from countries all around the Spanish speaking world. Please take a look at them all! 

Then, pick ONE article to comment on. 

Your comment needs 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 ONE article to get credit for this assignment. However, there are 4 articles in all, and if you decide to write about more than just the one, you will receive extra credit!

Peru Cracks down on Wildcat Miners

Click the link for the whole story with pictures!

Peru Cracks down on Wildcat Miners

The Trend for Latinos Is more US-Born, More Adults

The Trend for Latinos Is More U.S.-Born, More Adults: Pew Report

More and more U.S.-born Hispanics are entering adulthood, the Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project reported Tuesday.

At this point some 800,000 U.S.-born Hispanics enter adulthood annually and in coming decades it will be more than a million annually, the center reported.

That acceleration is happening as a slowdown in Hispanic immigration is occurring and is being outpaced by Latino births. About as many people from Mexico are leaving the U.S. as they are entering.

In the decade from 2000 to 2010, there were 9.6 million Hispanic births in the U.S., while the number of newly arrived Hispanic immigrants was 6.5 million. In the two decades preceding, immigration had been the driver of Latino population growth.

Latinos are the largest minority group, 17 percent of the U.S. population, and the population's numbers are expected to grow to 129 million by 2060, with Hispanics making up 31 percent of the population by then. Hispanics can be of any race.

Additional findings from Pew’s analysis of the 2012 American Community Survey data were: Though California and Texas still have the largest number of Hispanics, the five states with the fastest growing Latino populations from 2000 to 2012 were: Tennessee (up 163 percent); South Carolina (161 percent); Alabama (157 percent); Kentucky (135 percent) and South Dakota (132 percent).

About 70 percent of immigrant children between 5 and 17 say they speak only English or speak English very well. But about a third of immigrant adults say they speak only English or speak English very well.

A larger share of Hispanics are remaining single, with 37 percent ages 18 and older never marrying in 2012, compared to 27 percent in 2000. The percentage of households with 5 or more people has fallen from 31 percent in 2000 to 26 percent in 2012.

About 48 percent of native-born Latino households are owner-occupied, compared to 44 percent of immigrant Latino households.

Some 29 percent of Latinos did not have health insurance in 2012, more than any other group. There is variation though - only 18 percent of native-born Hispanics lacked insurance, compared to 49 percent of foreign-born Latinos and 61 percent of non-citizen immigrant Hispanics.

--Suzanne Gamboa

Missing Van Gogh painting reported found in safe-deposit box in Spain

Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. The Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna, above, was home to Vincent Van Gogh's "Cypress, Sky and Country" before it went missing four decades ago.

By David Ng

May 12, 2014, 12:42 p.m.

 

A long-missing painting by Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have been discovered in Spain by tax collectors who were going through the contents of a safe-deposit box. The small work of art, titled "Cypress, Sky and Country," is thought to have been missing for about four decades.

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that the painting, found in December, measures a little more than 1 foot tall and 1 foot wide.

The landscape painting bears three seals on its back indicating that the work resided in different museums during the 20th century. The most recent seal appears to be from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, according to the report.

El Mundo said that the painting is dated 1889 and was probably created during Van Gogh's stay at the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence asylum in the south of France. Authorities in Spain are working on authenticating the painting, according to the paper.

The safe-deposit box was one of more than 100 targeted by Spanish officials in a tax-evasion investigation. The painting was discovered unframed in the box, El Mundo said.

Van Gogh's stay in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence was a productive one. The tormented artist created his most famous painting, "The Starry Night," at the mental hospital.

At White House, Uruguay president urges U.S. to become bilingual

By Jeff Mason 22 hours ago

Uruguay's President Jose Mujica (L) delivers remarks as U.S. President Barack Obama (R) welcomes him before their meeting in the Oval Office in Washington May 12, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uruguay President Jose Mujica, meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama, on Monday urged the United States to become bilingual, joking that immigrants from Latin America would fill the country with Spanish speakers.

"We belong to a continent where our mother tongue is more or less Spanish. And we live in a time where we need to learn English," the leftist Mujica, dressed in a suit but no tie, said to Obama.

"And you will have to become a bilingual country ... because the strength of Latin women is admirable and they will fill this country with people who speak Spanish and Portuguese, too," he said.

Obama is pushing for broad immigration reform in the United States that would require undocumented immigrants to learn English, pay fines and eventually earn a pathway to citizenship. The effort is stalled in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mujica also used his time with the U.S. president to encourage a fight against smoking, which he said was killing 8 million people around the world every year.

"That is more than World War I, World War II. It's murder. We are in an arduous fight - very arduous - and we must fight against very strong interests," he said, according to an interpreter.

Obama is a former smoker.

The U.S. president praised Mujica for his leadership. He did not mention the issue of marijuana. Mujica signed a decree earlier this month outlining a new policy that would allow Uruguayans to be able to buy up to 10 grams of marijuana a week at between $0.85 and $1 a gram, a low price compared to the black market.

"I have had the pleasure on several occasions of having discussions with President Mujica, and have been consistently impressed with the progress that Uruguay has been making under his presidency," Obama told reporters, speaking before his counterpart in the Oval Office.

He said both men were interested in deepening their respective countries' mutual bonds.

"So this gives us an opportunity to find ways that we can further deepen this relationship. We both think that there's room for additional work to expand trade and commerce between our countries," Obama said.

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