BIENVENIDOS A LA CLASE DE ESPAÑOL

Miss Fairchild

¿Qué pasa hoy? 1/24

Attendance

First day questionnaire

Syllabus

Why learn Spanish?

Tips for learning Spanish

Textbook race

Spanish speaking countries

A little about me...

From a little town called Galion, OH

Was a gymnast and cheerleader

Traveled to Spain in the 10th grade

Studied abroad in Spain for 4 months my junior year of college

Student taught in New Mexico

España

QuestionnaireYour name:

Class period:

Grade:

Address:

Parents’ names:

Parents’ phone number:

Parents’ e-mail address:

1. Do you have any brothers or sisters? If so, what grades?

2. What sports or activities (in or out of school) are you infolved in, if any?

3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

4. How do you feel you learn best? (i.e.: lecture, hands on, etc.)

5. What is something that you’d like to do in Spanish this semester?

6. How do you think a typical day should be in Spanish class?

7. Would you enjoy learning songs to help you remember various things in Spanish such as numbers?

8. Have you been exposed to Spanish at all? If so, how?

9. How many countries do you think there are that speak Spanish?

10. Have you ever traveled out of the country? If so, where?

WHY LEARN SPANISH?

Open books to pg. xvi

TIPS FOR LEARNING SPANISH

Open books to pg. xxiii

TEXTBOOK RACE

1. What page is a brief table of contents on?

2. What country does Chapter 1 focus on?

3. How many sections of vocabulary does each

chapter have?

4. How many sections does each chapter have?

5. How many chapters are there?

6. What page starts a section of additional

vocabulary by category?

7. On what page does the Spanish to English dictionary start?

8. Where would you find translations of directions

found throughout the book?

9. What is the capital of Spain?

10. What do the speaker symbols mean throughout

each chapter?

11. Where is the grammatical index?

12. Where do you find the objectives for each

chapter?

13. What are the seven tips for learning Spanish?

14. What page is a map of South America on?

15. What do you think Exprésate means?

SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES

Argentina Nicaragua

Bolivia Panamá

Chile Paraguay

Colombia Perú

Costa Rica Puerto Rico

Cuba República Dominicana

Ecuador Uruguay

El Salvador Venezuela

Guatemala España

Honduras Equatorial Guinea

México

CAPITALSArgentina-Buenos Aires Nicaragua-Managua

Bolivia-La Paz (Administrative), Sucre (Constitutional) Panamá-Panama City

Chile-Santiago Paraguay-Asunción

Colombia-Bogota Perú-Lima

Costa Rica-San José Puerto Rico-San Juan

Cuba-Havana República Dominicana-Santo Domingo

Ecuador-Quito Uruguay-Montevideo

El Salvador-San Salvador Venezuela-Caracas

Guatemala-Guatemala City España-Madrid

Honduras-Tegucigalpa Equatorial Guinea-Malabo

México-Mexico City

La tarea

Read syllabus and fill out index cards