OQMS Foreign Culture http://adalessandro.edublogs.org adalessandro@sd113a.org Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:49:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Thursday, 5 November, 2009 http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/thursday-5-november-2009/ http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/thursday-5-november-2009/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:49:41 +0000 Angela http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/?p=581 We were able to review the final exams today.  Tomorrow students will receive their final grade for my class and Monday will be their last day for rotation two.  Please review with your student their school schedule so that they know what new class they start on Tuesday.

Have a great day!

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           German Study Guide answer key             spanish study guide answer key              French Study Guide key

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Draw it

Spanish students received their food vocabulary list today and filled in the missing vocab words by watching videos on the food and culture.

Comida vocabulary

French students had several verbal activities to practice using their food vocabulary then played the card game of War! (French educational version) to practice their numbers.

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German students played food bingo all class period and there is no homework for tonight. 

Spanish students did a quick activity to practice their adjectives and then received a project that is due tomorrow.

Poema Diamante

French students watched a video on French Cuisine.

Everyone has a quiz this Friday.

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German food vocabulary

Spanish students learned about articles and adjectives through video shorts and worksheets.

Spanish articles 1b3         Spanish adjectives 1b4      Spanish adjectives1b2      Spanish adjectives1b1

French students worked a little more on the weather and months with a worksheet and then received the vocabulary sheet about food.

weather and months worksheet French             french food

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Spanish students finished the Ecuador video and then learned a little about some of Mexico’s most traditional food.  Would you like a grasshopper taco today?

French students are actually learning what was in the post from yesterday because I went home ill.  They do have a project to complete over the weekend.

Four seasons Project and Rubric

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Spanish students traveled to Ecuador (through a video).

French students received their vocabulary three worksheet, learned a song about the days and learned how to tell time iin French including the 24 hour clock.

French vocab 3                  French days song               quand

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Wunderbar Mich Book

Spanish students went to the computer lab today to create a weather forecast, in Spanish.

Weather Project

French students visited Morocco today with Ian (a video with worksheet).

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German students continued to watch the video on Germany and Austria.

Spanish students had a verbal activity and then a writing activity in Spanish.  If they had spare time, they were to work on their quiz corrections.

weather activity8PE           writing activity11 1A

French students had a verbal activity, audio activity and a grammar worksheet to learn how to make a sentence negative.

 negative sentences

]]> http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/2009/10/20/tuesday-20-october-2009/feed/ 0 Monday, 19 October, 2009 http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/2009/10/19/monday-19-october-2009/ http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/2009/10/19/monday-19-october-2009/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:33:31 +0000 Angela http://adalessandro.edublogs.org/?p=539 We are almost half way through the second rotatation and the first trimester!  Isn’t incredible how quickly time flies?

German students visited Germany today with Mr. Rick Steves (in a video).  We will be continuing this video tomorrow.  Also, students will receive quiz number two tomorrow and the corrections are due this Freitag.

Spanish students, quiz corrections are due this viernes.  Please do them!  Today we learned about nouns and verbs.  We learned that nouns have a gender.  They are either masculine or feminine.  Also, there are three types of verbs.  They are -ar, -er and -ir.  More to come tomorrow!

French students were very lucky and were able to visit Paris today!  They received their quiz #2 and corrections for that is due this vendredi also.

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