Assignments
Week 1
Question words
¿Qué?
¿Cómo?
¿Cuál?
¿Dónde?
Negative
no
Sentences
Buenos Dias, (Señor, Señora, Señorita)
Buenas tardes.
Buenas noches.
Me llamo ____.
¿Cómo estás? (offer your hand to shake)
¿Como está?
Estoy bien, gracias.
¿Cómo se llama?
¿Cómo te llamas?
Estoy aprendiendo español.
Necesito ayuda.
¿Puede usted ayudarme?
¿Cómo se dice _____ en español?
¿Qué quiere decir _____ en inglés?
¿Qué es ____?
¿Qué significa ___?
Your sentences
(Imagine you are with a good friend or family member in a familiar situation. Using each of the question words above, imagine some real questions –in English- that you would ask them, and a possible answer they might give you.
Situation ________________
Question 1____
Answer 1 ___
Q 2 ___
A 2 ___
Q 3____
A 3 ___
Q 4 ___
A 4 ___
Homework
"Follow" the class blog and add your comment to the blog question. Subscribe by email to the comments for each post. If you haven’t had such an experience, interview someone who has, and write about their experience. Write a careful, detailed, paragraph.
Do one lesson from each “StudySpanish” section, “Pronunciation, Grammar, and Vocabulary.” (A weekly assignment to total about 1-1.5 hours a week, spread over three different days)
Make a folder for this class on your computer.
Go to a place where mostly Spanish is spoken and introduce yourself. Write the name of a nice person there who helped you learn a bit of Spanish. Write what you learned. (A weekly listening-speaking assignment of about 1 hour total duration)
Find a native speaker of Spanish who is willing to chat with you in Spanish on a regular basis, and/or who might come and share something with us in class.
Go to the Jackson Public Library (or go online to them) and check out a simple language Spanish children’s audio book or CD that has the text or lyrics with it. Bring them to next class. (Listen to it at least three times, three different days, trying to say or sing it aloud along with reading it)
Practice your sentence cards every day for 20 minutes a day, OUT LOUD. Begin to memorize them. Work with a partner if you can. (Over Skype? With a native speaker? Friend, sibling or parent?)
Always be thinking of things you want to be able to say to people in Spanish and write those sentences down to be put on your cards later
