LECCION 10- LOS DEPORTES: Paginas 181-207. This is the last chapter in REPASO II. A good place to end the year.                                                                                                                                 There is a also a wonderful Review Section for Repaso II on pages 196- 207, which I highly recommend you do over the summer to keep your mind sharp!                                                               It includes a Buscapalabras on  P. 201 and a Crucigrama on P. 205  plus other easy, fun exercises.                                                                                                                                                           Save your workbook as a reference guide for next year.                                                                          Esta semana: Leccion #1- Copy the 33 Sports related words on pages 181-182 into your Spanish notebook, as we always do, in 2 columns, Spanish and English. Use 2 separate pages: 1-20, 21-33. Say them out loud daily. Quiz yourself by folding back your notebook pages, so you can only see one language at a time. (Spanish II expects you to know most of these words.)                                                                                                                                              Leccion #2 -Despues: Haga ejercicios A y B- Paginas 183-184, only in your workbook.     Leccion #3-  Starting at the bottom of Page 185  to top half of P.186, read over carefully how to say "this" and "these."  ( este, esta, estos, estas)                              OJO: Esto and Eso, ending in -o, mean This and That in general, when you don't have a specific noun attached, are also used somtimes.                                                     Fill in the correct forms: masculine, feminine, singular and plural into the 4 blanks.                                                                                                                                                     Leccion #4- THAT/ THOSE: ese, esa, esos and esas.                                             REGLA: Just take out the "t" from before with "this' and 'these" and you will have "that" and "those!"  Ejemplo: este = this and ese = that!                                               Read over bottom of P. 186- top of P. 187.                                                                 OVER THERE! When something is "way over there," we switch to aquel, aquella, aquellos and aquellas! Fill in the 8 blanks now, top half of Pagina 187.                  Then do Actividades D, E and F, PP. 187-188 for practice.                                                                 As I already have over a dozen marks from each of you this Trimester 3,  and I have to do the report cards this week, I am not collecting any additional assignments.                                                           Thank you for all the hard work you did online!

OJO: Thank you for the more than a dozen assignments that you were able to turn in for grading during this very challenging time! In case you were not aware, I actually printed out each one and wrote comments on them for you to review. I especially hope that you enjoyed doing your Spanish Media Journal and Cinco de Mayo research papers.                                                                  We have been told by Mrs. Carberry, that your parents are coming by in their cars next Tuesday, June 11 from 11AM- 12:30PM.                                                                                                                            I am giving your homeroom teachers Spanish folders with all your work in it.                                  Those unclaimed will be left in the main office for you to pick up.                                                             I hope that I was able to give all of you a solid foundation in Spanish for high school.                 Often, looking back, it was interesting and fun to do our various activities together over the last 2 years. After all, the title of our text is SPANISH IS FUN as I have sometimes reminded you!             Esta semana: From last Friday, Por Favor, Haz Paginas 166-167, Actividades A y B in your workbook only. Recite the TIME Expressions out loud from the top of P. 167 daily until memorized.                                                                                                                                         Despues: Lee " La adivina" en pagina 168 y contesta las preguntas en Actividad C, P. 169.               With this Leccion 9, the subtitle on Page 166 is: Imperfect and Preterit Tenses Compared. Please read over slowly and carefully P. 169, #2, P. 172, #3 and P. 174, #4. Entonces: Fill in the blanks for those last 2 grammar sections on pages 172 and 174.             (I am not going to ask you to do the exercises as this is really Spanish II material that you will be reintroduced to next year.) Read over #5 on PP.176 - 177, CONOCER VS. SABER           (to know) in the Preterit and Imperfect tenses. Say the 4 sample sentences out loud daily to get a feel for it.                                                                                                                                         ULTIMO: For fun, read over the Dialogo on P. 178 about going to a fortune teller. Try to fill in dialog balloons with answers you could give her! Then do the Preguntas Personales on P. 179 and P. 180, Capsula cultural , 1-5 en tus cuadernos. (I am not asking you to turn in any work this week, but doing these exercises will help you in September in Espanol 2!)                                        La semana proxima!  Leccion 10, Los deportes!!

Mrs. Beihoff has asked me to alert you that there is now a PE lesson here for you under Special Subjects. I just looked at it. There is a YouTube video, physical exercises to do at home and a quiz. Diviertanse!

Buenas noticias! Con el dia festivo de Memorial Day ayer,  solo hay 3 lecciones esta semana!       Leccion #1: Pagina 160, #4: Recite the 3 irregular verbs out loud daily until memorized: SER to ERA..., IR to IBA..., and VER to VEIA....  Now write out all 5 forms of each verb in the Imperfect Tense in your notebook for additional spelling practice. Remember your accents!                                                                                                           Ahora, Haz Actividad G, Pagina 161 en espanol e ingles y mandamelo hoy mismo por escrito. (Now Type up Activity G, page 161, in Spanish and English and mail it to me today!)              #1 is: a- Tu eras bueno en matematicas. b- You used to be good in math.                                 Leccion #2: Actividad H, Pagina 161. Make imperfect tense sentences segun (according to) las instrucciones. #1 is : Cuando yo era nino(a), mis padres iban al campo.                         (When I was a child, my parents used to go to the countryside.)                                                  Leccion #3: Paginas 162-163, Contesta  las 5 "Preguntas Personales" practicando el tiempo imperfecto. #1: Cuando yo era nino(a), yo hacia muchas cosas en el parque. ( When I was a child, I used to do a lot of things in the park.) Need more space? Answer them in your notebook. (Yes, this is difficult. You will be introduced to it again next year. Do the best you can).      ESO ES TODO PARA EL MES DE MAYO 2020!                                                                                            Quieres un poco mas?!   Empieza Leccion 9, "Cuando?" Paginas 166-167, Actividades A & B. Es muy facil! It later goes on to compare the preterit with the imperfect tenses, on Page 169, #2. A good headstart for next week and next year tambien.

Special Note: It was wonderful to see so many of you in person last Friday at that Parking Lot Pep Rally !!                                                                                                                                      That warm, sunny weather was a sign of happier days ahead!                                            Tambien:  You are invited to read my Grade 7 ELA & Religion Class Pages here.         They wrote some wonderful poems and prayers about our health crisis.                                    Leccion #1: From last Friday, Now type up Actividad D, Paginas 157-158, 1-10, S/E, and email it to me today for a grade. Make sure you use the new Imperfect Tense -AR verb endings in the blue box, P. 157. Please include your 4 line Spanish heading as well. Gracias!                                                                                                         Leccion #2: - ER & -IR Imperfect Tense Endings, P. 158, #3  Recite the 14 sentences out loud daily this week. Instead of -aba, -abas, -aba, -abamos, and-aban for -AR verbs on P. 157, we now switch over to -ia, ias, ia, iamos, and ian for the -ER & -IR Imperfect Tense verb endings.                                                                                                            AHORA: Now fill in those same endings at the bottom of P. 158.                                Despues: Escribe las 14 oraciones (sentences) en tu cuaderno en ingles from the blue box en Pagina 158.                                                                                                                    When translating to English, use the expression, "used to" for each verb.              Ejemplo: #1 is "I used to eat in the cafeteria."  ( Yo comia en la cafeteria.)                                                                               Leccion #3: HAGA AHORA: Actividad E, Pagina 159.                                                       Change each sentence to the Imperfect Tense: #1 is "Un alumno abria las ventanas.( A student used to open the windows.)                                                                 Ten cuidado! Some are -AR verbs and some are -ER or -IR verbs with those second set of endings on P. 158. Not sure which to use? Check Infinitives in Glossary.                                                  Leccion #4:   Actividad F, Pagina 160   We put "hace" in front of any time expression to say "ago."  Example: Hace dos semanas...is Two weeks ago...                                        Then you will add on the verb in the imperfect tense plus a few words to complete the sentence.                                                                                                                                    The example given means, "Two years ago I used to live in another city."                         AHORA: Write out 5 sentences of what you used to do two years ago, using a choice of the 8 verbs given; each sentence should have a different verb for practice.          OJO:   The only asignment collected this week was Monday's.                                                  The rest you do in order to be well prepared for high school!                                                                                       

OJO:    Muchas gracias por tus composiciones sobre El Cinco de Mayo. Me gustaron leerlos.  Espero que en 2021 pueden todavia recordar La Batalla de Puebla en 1862 y que tendremos todos buena salud!                                                                                                          lunes, el once de mayo: Introduccion, Leccion 8- Las vacaciones y el tiempo imperfecto, paginas 152-165.                                                                                              Leccion #1: VOCABULARIO-Pagina152-Picture Words & Phrases.                             As we always do with each new chapter, in your Spanish notebook, make 2 columns Spanish/English for the 17 Las vacaciones expressions. (No. 1 is montar a caballo/ to ride a horse and No. 17 should be jugar a las cartas/ to play cards.) Be sure to look up the difficult ones in the glossary or a dictionary, but many look like English! Say them out loud every day this week and quiz yourself.  Leccion #2: Hagan Uds. Actividades A y B en paginas 153-155 en tus libros solamente.                                                                                                                     Leccion #3: Lean Uds. el cuento, "Doctor, tengo muchos problemas," en paginas 155-156 y despues contesten las 4 Discusion preguntas en pagina 156 en tus cuadernos solamente.                                                                                             Leccion #4: El Tiempo Imperfecto - Read over carefully Paginas 156-157, #2, on how to do the Imperfect Tense and when to use it. Say the new -AR verb endings out loud daily this week in the blue box on P. 157.                                        Haz Actividad D, 1-10, en paginas 157-158 using these new imperfect tense endings.                                                                                                                                  OJO: I am not collecting any work this week in order to give you a break. I also want you to focus more on your other classes.( I already have 11 marks for Trimester 3.)

LECCION #1: Go to " 7th Grade Spanish with Mr. Ranft" on these Class Pages now. Please do the same exact assignment on EL CINCO de MAYO as they are doing under "martes, el cinco de mayo!!!" Same instructions apply to Grade 8.                (Someday, I may learn how to "cut and paste!")                                                                      LECCION #2: Pagina 148, Dialogo: Trabajo de clase: Fill in the missing dialog balloons with Spanish questions ..                                                                              TAREA: Type up only the 5 Dialogo balloons printed already on Page 148 in S/E. #1: Anoche estuve en una fiesta.                                                                                                     Last night I was at a party.                                                                                                   Por favor: Include my required 4 line Spanish heading; then email it today to my school email address only: eranft@stchris-school.org. GRACIAS.                                      LECCION #3: Fill in both exercises on Pages 149-150,  Informacion Personal and Composicion. This is needed practice in the past tense. If you go into Spanish 2 next year, they will expect you to be familiar with it to some extent.                                                      LECCION #4: LEE "Capsula cultural" en pagina 150. Despues, Contesta las 5 Discusion preguntas de Pagina 151solamente en tu cuaderno.

OJO:   Soon the Progress Reports will be issued for Trimester 3!  Before moving forward with this week's work, please scroll down here to see if you have completed and emailed to me all of the required assignments since March 16th. You can also check on Parent Portal for which assignments were graded. It will be too difficult to make up all of these assignments at once upon return, so do them now. There is already a late penalty. At some point, you may not be allowed to make up very old assignments. Also, as I add new assignments on this page, I have to make room for and delete the oldest ones, so catch up this week, please!                                          LECCION #1:  Paginas 146-147. Recite the irregular preterit verbs DECIR (to say or to tell) and TRAER (to bring) outloud for the next 5 days or until memorized.                            Entonces, haz Ejercicio M, 1-6, en espanol e ingles y envialo a mi hoy. (Send it to me today for a grade.)  Asi: #1 Que trajiste tu, Daniel? What did you bring, Daniel?                                              LECCION #2:  En tu cuaderno, Traduce las preguntas de Act. N y Preguntas Personales al ingles, paginas 146 y 147. (Not collected, but checked upon return as a notebook grade.)               LECCION #3: Ahora, Contesta las preguntas en espanol para Actividad N y Preguntas Personales, paginas 146-147. Ejemplo:  Act. N, #1  Si, ayer lei el periodico. (See P.145, box #2.)                        Preguntas Personales: #1- Fui al supermercado el sabado pasado por la noche. (Vea P. 143, #6.)                                                                                                                                                                     LECCION #4: Somthing different, Type up the questions and answers to Preguntas Personales, Pagina 147, in English only, and email it to me for a grade.                                                   Example: #1: Where did you go last Saturday night? Last Saturday night, I went to the supermarket.

Hope you are all holding up well. For me, I enjoy getting outside on the warm, sunny spring days. I want to give you a headstart today, April 15th, on next week's work as you probably don't need more "vacation!"                                                                                                                                               Scroll down below now and review the last 3 sections from March on how to enhance your Spanish fluency at home this past month, that I advised you to do.                                                                                                                                                     (Of course, at that time, I had no idea we would be out so long!)                                               Your Spanish fluency needs to be maintained at home to keep up your reading and listening comprehension, otherwise, it will be lost.                                                                             I also recommend that you look over ideas I gave the seventh graders on Class Pages now for more tips on what to do.                                                                                                            Required Assignment:  I would like you to type up and email to me a Journal of what you have done this past month, March 16- April 15, to enhance your Spanish at home. Please do it in 2 parts:                                                                       PART 1 --  Explain what you did the first month off  to improve your Spanish :       If you continued with Rosetta Stone, mention new levels and vocabulary mastered;  Apps like Duolingo or Babbel ? - give details about the format of the apps and what you liked and learned;  Episodes of El Gato y el Perro? -  mention which titles and include some new vocabulary learned ;  Spanish TV?, mention which programs- the date and time you saw them and what new words you learned and enjoyed. Spanish magazines or newspapers like El Diario?, mention which articles you read and the date of the article.                                                                      **If you did something else, such as downloading Spanish music, mention the artist, song title and some of the lyrics learned.                                                           THIS SHOULD BE ABOUT ONE TYPED PAGE.                                                                                                                     PART 2 -- STARTING TODAY, April 15, or at the latest next Monday, April  20, Keep a DAILY LOG now for about one week as to what you did each day to practice more Spanish until Friday, April 24th. This should be about another typed page, 2 pages total. Do the best you can.                                                         Email to me for a required , special project grade by Sunday, April 26.                                                                              Don't panic, if you didn't do that much yet, START TODAY!! Muchas Gracias.                            

Leccion #1: Based on your last "Week of April 6 -8" assignment below, please now type up the same Actividad J, Pagina 144 in Spanish/English and send it to me HOY. Recuerda: Necesito el heading en espanol como siempre con las 4 lineas.                                                                                                                              Leccion #2: HAGAN UDS. AHORA: Pagina 144, Actividad K, en el tiempo pasado o sea el preterito. Despues, en tus cuadernos solamente, escriban Act. K en ingles.                               Leccion #3: Read over carefully top half of Page 145, #7 , then recite the 2 new verbs: creer, to believe or think and oir, to hear, daily en voz alta until memorized.                      Now fill in the blue chart with leer, to read and caerse, to fall down, in the past tense. (They are done the same way as creer.) Now you have 4 new verbs you can recite outloud daily until memorized!                                                                  TAREA: Actividad L , P. 145. Just in text, until Leccion #4.                                             Leccion #4: Now type up Actividad L, Pagina 145, 1-6 , in S/E, and email it to me today. There will be a late penalty.                                                                            Remember to include the required 4 line Spanish heading at the top as usual for the last 2 years. No excuses. Heading will be part of the grade as some students are not doing it correctly and it is difficult to sort out homework from 3 grades, especially when turned in late without any heading.                                                       OJO:   Recuerda, Your Spanish Journal explained in great detail above is due emailed to me by this Sunday, April 26. Keep working on it today!                         Equal in value to a test!