Mis Amigos y Yo
Sra. Waters
MOT Charter
Manu Chao’s Me Gustas
Tú
• Canción para
comenzar
2
Amigos en Español
• Video clip….
• Most of you already know the words
for our Unit’s title… So tell me what
are we going to studying???
Unit Objectives
Throughout this unit students will revisit:
– Greetings & Salutations
– the verb Ser in the present tense
– Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él, ella, etc)
Students will also be able to:
• Understand gender as it applies to Spanish
nouns & adjectives
• Practice using definite & indefinite articles
• Describe their personality & physical attributes
as well as those of their friends
• Express likes and dislikes using the verb Gustar
Lesson Goals
• Understand gender as it applies to
Spanish nouns & adjectives
• Introduce definite & indefinite
articles
Abeja
• On your abeja sheet, list the names
of at least 5 friends you have.
• Next class we’re going to list
adjectives to describe them…
Essential Questions
• Q1: How can I figure out the gender of
words in Spanish?
• Q2: What the heck is a definite article?
Or an indefinite article? Do these exist in
English?
• Q3: How are these 2 types of articles
different? When should they be used in
Spanish?
In Spanish many words
have a gender…
Video Lessons
• Gender & Adjectives video clip
– Sra. Ebert is going to teach this lesson
for me….
Definite Articles help us figure out
Gender
• Masculine nouns have the article "el" in
singular form & the article "los" in plural.
• Feminine nouns have the article "la" in singular
form & the article "las" in plural.
• When a plural includes both masculine and
feminine elements, the masculine noun is used
with the article "los" (for example: parents
are "los padres", children are "los niños”
♂
el pasajero
el médico
el cirujano
el perro
♀
la pasajera
la médica
la cirujana
la perra
FEMININE Words
1) Words that end in – tad, – tud y – dad are FEMININE
la amistad, la libertad
la lentitud, la multitud, la juventud
la felicidad, la calidad
2) Words that end in – ción y – sión are FEMININE
la canción, la sensación, la imaginación
la sesión, la ilusión, la revisión
3 Words that end in any letter of the A,B, C are FEMININE
a, b, c, d, etc.
Definite/ Indefinite
Articles
Definitivo
Singular
Plural
Indefinitivo
Masculino
Femenino
Masculino
Femenino
el
la
un
una
los
las
unos
unas
Check out the worksheet…
Review 1x Video Lessons
• Spanish Articles
Online Help…
• http://www.espanyol.hu/en/grammar/gender.php
• http://www.123teachme.com/learn_s
panish/conversational_spanish
Exit Visa & A Song
• Spanish Articles Song
– Notice this is a student project… I want
us to get to this point!
– On your abeja paper, answer the 3 EQs
for today.
EQs for Exit Visa
• Q1: How can I figure out the gender of
words in Spanish?
• Q2: What the heck is a definite article?
Or an indefinite article? Do these exist in
English?
• Q3: How are these 2 types of articles
different? When should they be used in
Spanish?