Capítulo 1B
Y tú ¿cómo eres?
Español 1
Objectives
1. Talk about personality traits
2. Ask and tell what people are
like
3. Use adjectives to describe
people
4. Understand cultural
perspectives on friendship
Vocabulario en contexto
 Pages 50 y 51
 Scan these pages.
 What will you learn?
 What cognates do you see?
 www.phschool.com jcd-0197
 Listen to the audio and follow along.
 Complete activities 1 and 2.
Preparación para el 29 de
septiembre
Semana #7
1. What adjectives describe you?
2. In English, are the same adjectives
used to describe males and females?
Vocabulario en contexto
 Pages 50 y 51
 www.phschool.com jcd-0197
 Listen to the audio and follow along.
 Complete activities 1 and 2.
Vocabulario en contexto
 Look at the más vocabulario box on page 51.
What do you notice?
Notes:
 Most adjectives that end in o are used to describe
males.
 Most adjectives that end in a are used to describe
females.
 Adjectives that end in e are used to describe both
males and females.
Descripciones
 Using the adjectives from page 70 (to talk
about what you and others are like),
people.
 Mi mamá es…
 Yo soy…
 Mi amigo es…
 _______ es…
describe the following
Actividades
Study the adjectives on page
70.
Complete activities 5 and 6
on page 54 on your notes.
Google Classroom
 https://classroom.google.com
 We will be making the transition to Google
Classroom. Most of your assignments will
be completed and turned in here.
Tarea (homework)
Study the adjectives on page
70.
Read and study adjectives on
page 55.
Complete the table.
 Write the correct form of adjectives used to describe the
following people.
To describe To describe To describe
males
females
both males
and females

Preparación para el 30 de
septiembre
 Using the adjectives from page 70 (to talk
about what you and others are like),
describe the following
people.
 1. Mi mamá es…
 2.Yo soy (I am)…
 3. Mi amigo es…
 4. _______ es…
 Repasar la tarea
 Write the correct form of adjectives used to describe the following
people.
To describe
males
To describe
females
To describe
both males
and females
Repaso (Review)
 Most adjectives that end in o are used to
describe males.
 Most adjectives that end in a are used to
describe females.
 Adjectives that end in e are used to describe
both males and females.
¿Cómo eres? (What are you like?)
¿Cómo es? (What is he/she like?)
a veces (sometimes)
muy (very)
Yo soy (I am)
Yo no soy
Mi compañero(a)
es
Actividad con compañero
Activity 8 on page 56
Activity 12 on page 57 Mi
compañero(a)
Six sentence paragraph
Follow the example given
Párrafo (Paragraph)
Me llamo la Srta. Serrano. Soy
trabajadora e inteligente.
También soy simpática. Mi
compañera es Mónica. Mónica
es graciosa. También es
sociable y talentosa.
Práctica
You will have a chapter 1 test next
Thursday.
Complete worksheets (check my
website) on a separate sheet of
paper.
Tarea
El poema de diamante
 Activity 14, page 59
 Soy la Srta. Serrano
En general, soy
simpática y trabajadora.
A veces, soy tímida,
desordenada o atrevida.
No soy paciente
ni deportista.
¡Yo soy yo!
Preparación para 2 de octubre
Make corrections.
Me llama Rebecca. Soy
talentoso y paciente. No
es atrevida. También no
soy serio.

Repasar la tarea
El poema de diamante
 Activity 14, page 59
 Soy la Srta. Serrano
En general, soy
simpática y trabajadora.
A veces, soy tímida,
desordenada o atrevida.
No soy paciente
ni deportista.
¡Yo soy yo!
Lectura de poemas
 1. All students will stand.
 2. I will choose one poem and I’ll read it
aloud to you one verse at a time.
 3. If the statement doesn’t describe you,
you must sit down.
 4. When a few students are left standing,
the class will guess who’s the owner of the
poem.
Chapter test
 You will be tested on chapter 1A and 1B next
Thursday.
 You will have a few questions that will require
you to draw. We will practice a few times today.
 1. Me gusta nadar.
 2. Me gusta ver la televisión
 3. Tim es deportista.
Google Classroom
 https://classroom.google.com
 We will start using Google Classroom today
for most of the assignments.
 Assignments will be due at 8 a.m.
Typing accents using the
keyboard
 á, é ;i, ó, ú: option key + e + vowel (a, e, o,
i, u)
 ñ: option + n + n
 ¡: option + 1!
 ¿: option + shift + ?
28
Typing accents using the virtual
keyboard
 Tap and hold on any letter to see the
associated accents.
 Drag your finger to the accent you wish
to use and release to place it in the text
field
29
 The middle schools students are very
happy because they all received their
iPads yesterday. The iPads are nice but
students complained about the covers
and the keyboards. Others complained
about that they couldn’t sign in into the
app store.
Definite Articles
(Artículos definidos)
 A definite article is used to refer to a definite
or specific person or thing.
 El and la (the) are the singular definite
articles in Spanish.
 El is used with a masculine noun

and
 la is used with a feminine noun.
31
What do you notice?
Examples:
 la muchacha
el muchacho
la chica
el chico
 la amiga
el amigo

32
Gender of Nouns
Most nouns that end
in o are masculine.
Most nouns that end
in a are feminine
Practice
 Write the definite articles for the following nouns.
 1. ________ sombrero
 2. ________ sala de clases
 3. ________ libro
 4. ________ carpeta
 5. ________ teléfono
 6. ________ cuento
 7. ________ guitarra
34
Review Questions
 Answer the following questions orally a
35
neighbor.
 1. What are nouns?
 2. Nouns in Spanish are either
___________ or ____________.
 3. How can we identity the gender of
some nouns?
 4. What are the two singular definite
articles in Spanish?
Review Questions
Open your textbook to page 46 and look for
nouns. Make a list of masculine and feminine
nouns and write the correct definite article.
For example,
el libro
36
la señora
Indefinite Articles
 Indefinite articles (artículos indefinidos) refer
to nonspecific people or things.
 Un and una (a/an) are the singular indefinite
articles.
 Un is used with a singular masculine noun and
una is used with a singular feminine noun.
37
Singular Indefinite Articles
Examples:
 una muchacha
un muchacho
 una alumna
un alumno
una camisa
un vestido

38
Articles
 Write the appropriate definite and indefinite articles for the
following nouns on your notes.
 muchacho
 bolígrafo
 familias
39
señora
amigo
señorita
policía
estudiante
alumna
Tarea (homework)
 1. Study the singular definite and indefinite
articles and the chapter vocabulary on page
70.
 2. Complete the online worksheet. Type
answers on Google Doc on Google
Classroom. Please type accents!
 3. Begin studying for the chapter 1A-1B
test on Thursday, October 9th.
Preparación para el 6 de octubre
Google Classroom Semana #8
 1. There are ________ singular
definite articles in Spanish.
 2. The Spanish indefinite articles are
________ and ______.
 3. Why are there more articles in
Spanish?
 4. What are the articles in English?
th
5
period will turn in
week 7 warm ups.
Repasar la tarea (review
homework)
 1. Study the singular definite and indefinite
articles and the chapter vocabulary on page
70.
 2. Complete the online worksheet.
Type answers on Google Doc on Google
Classroom. Please type accents!
 3. Begin studying for the chapter 1A-1B
test on Thursday, October 9th.
Chapter test
 You will be tested on chapter 1A and 1B this
Thursday.
 1A: vocabulary, say what you like and don’t
like to do, cognates and music/dance from
Latin America
 1b: vocabulary, adjectives, definite and
indefinite articles, and placement of
adjectives
Other nouns
 You will have to memorize the gender of
these nouns that we’ve already learned.
 El/la estudiante
 El lápiz
 El pupitre
 El mes
 El monopatín
 El deporte
 La televisión
46
Práctica
www.phschool.com jcd-0198
Activity 16
Activity 17 with a neighbor(5. ojo,
7. el pupitres, 8. la pierna)
Activity 18 with a neighbor
Tarea (homework)
 1. Begin studying for the chapter 1A-1B test on
Thursday, October 9th.
 2. Watch the video on articles. Ignore the plural
articles since we aren’t learning them this chapter.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jpaVGM8M
 3. Read about the placement of adjectives on page
62.
Preparación para el 7 de octubre
Google Classroom Semana #8
 1. Qué te gusta hacer después de
escuela?
 2. ¿Qué no te gusta hacer?
 3. ¿Cómo eres?
 4. ¿Cómo es tu mejor amigo?
 5. Mi mejor amigo es…
Tarea (homework)
 1. Study for the chapter 1A-1B test on
Thursday, October 9th.
 2. Complete the online review activities
on Google Classroom. (links)
¿Cuál es la diferencia?
(What’s the difference?)
 Alicia es una chica atrevida.
 Alicia is a daring girl.
 Yo soy un estudiante serio.
 I am a serious student.
 El Sr. López es un profesor simpático.
 Mr. López is a nice professor.
¿Cuál es la diferencia?
(What’s the difference?)
Alicia es una chica atrevida.
Yo soy un estudiante serio.
El profesor López es un profesor
simpático.
subject + verb ser +indefinite
article + noun + adjective
Práctica
Written activity: activity 19
on page 62
Written activity: activity 20
on page 62
Carrera
(Race)
 1. The class will be divided into two
teams.
 2. The objective of this review game is
for students to write a complete
sentence in Spanish using the pattern
written on the board.
 Subject +verb ser +indefinite
article+noun+adjective
Carrera
(Race)
 4. Once the student has sat down, a second student




rushes to the board and writes the correct conjugation of
ser (soy or es) for the verb.
5. Once the student has sat down, a third student rushes
to the board and writes the correct article and a noun.
And so on.
6. The fifth student will make one correction if needed.
7. The team will ring the bell when they think their
sentence is complete and error free.
8. Team will receive one point if correct.
Más práctica
(More practice)
 http://www.phschool.com/atschool/r
ealidades/Activities/Chapter1BL1/Cha
p1BL10115.html
 Similar to activity 19 on page 62.
 http://www.studyspanish.com/practic
e/genoun1.htm
Preparación para el 9 de octubre
Google Classroom Semana #8
1. True or False: La is masculine.
2. A girl and a guy can be impaciente.
3. Me gusta no correr.
4. Dibujar is to sing.
5. We learned about rock en español.
Más práctica
You have ten minutes to review for
the test.
Take test
¿Qué es un amigo?
 Discuss the following questions with a
neighbor.
 1. What is your definition of a friend?
 2. Do you have many friends or a few
close ones?
 3. What qualities do you look for in a
friend?
¿Qué es un amigo?
 Read page 66.
 Check it out!
 Find what other expressions used to say
friend in Spanish-speaking countries.
 México España




Cuba Honduras
Uruguay Costa Rica Guatemala Venezuela
Colombia Nicaragua El Salvador Chile
Panamá Ecuador Bolivia Paraguay
República Dominicana Puerto Rico Perú Argentina
¿Qué es un amigo?
 Pick one of your Spanish-speaking
countries.
 Research what the similarities and
differences are between someone your
age in the U.S. and a teenager in the
country you’ve chosen.
I need
¿Qué es un amigo?
 Pick one of your Spanish-speaking
countries.
 Research what the similarities and
differences are between someone your
age in the U.S. and a teenager in the
country you’ve chosen.
I need at least three similarities and
differences.
¿Qué es un amigo?
 All students will share their
research with a few people.
A certain amount of students
will share their research with
the class.
Tarea (homework)
 1. Complete the homework section of
the warm ups. Week 8 warm ups are
due by 8 am on Monday for 1st period.
(Google Classroom)
 2. Chapter 2A Tu día en la escuela
 Read the objectives on page 73
 Read vocabulario en contexto on pages
74 and 75.