UNIT 2 THEME: La hora, la fecha y el tiempo
[Time, date & the weather]
LEARNING TARGETS
INTERPRETIVE
Listening
I can understand some-one saying a
date or time.
I can understand someone talking
about their age and birthday.
Reading
I can understand basic personal
information from communications
such as e-mails, personal profiles.
I can identify some cognates or
characters that help me understand
the meaning.
INTERPERSONAL
Person-to-Person
I can answer questions about my age.
I can tell someone the date and time.
I can tell someone when my birthday is.
I can talk about the seasons and the weather.
PRESENTATIONAL
Speaking
Writing
I can tell the date and time.
I can write an introduction of myself.
I can tell my age and my birthday.
I can write my age and my birthday.
I can write the date & time.
UNIT 2 THEME: La hora, la fecha y el tiempo
[Time, date & the weather]
VOCBULARY
¿Qué día es hoy?
Hoy es…
lunes
martes
miércoles
jueves
viernes
sábado
domingo
la semana
el fin de semana
¿Cuál es la fecha?
enero
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo
junio
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre
What day is today?
Today is…
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
the week
the weekend
What is the date?
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
¿Cuántos años tienes?
Tengo _____ años.
treinta
treinta y uno
cuarenta
cincuenta
sesenta
setenta
ochenta
noventa
ciento (cien)
la hora
How old are you?
I am _____ years old.
thirty
thirty one
forty
fifty
sixty
seventy
eighty
ninety
one hundred
time
UNIT 2 THEME: La hora, la fecha y el tiempo
[Time, date & the weather]
el día
la noche
el reloj
¿Qué hora es?
Es la una.
Son las ____
… y cuarto
… menos cuarto
… y media
de la
mañana
de la tarde
de la noche
day
night
clock
What time is it?
It's one o'clock.
It's ___ o'clock. (2-12)
quarter past (:15)
quarter before (:45)
half past (:30)
in the morning
el tiempo
¿Qué tiempo hace?
Hace calor.
Hace frío.
Hace fresco.
Hace viento.
Hace sol.
Hace buen tiempo.
Hace mal tiempo.
Está nublado.
Llueve.
Está lloviendo
Nieva.
Está nevando
la primavera
el verano
el otoño
el invierno
la lluvia
la nieve
la temperatura
weather
How is the weather?
It's hot.
It's cold.
It's cool.
It's windy.
It's sunny.
It's good weather.
It’s bad weather.
It's cloudy.
It rains. / It's raining.
It’s raining. (right now)
It snows. / It's snowing.
It’s snowing. (right now)
spring
summer
fall, autumn
winter
the rain
the snow
temperature
in the afternoon
in the evening, at night
UNIT 2 THEME: La hora, la fecha y el tiempo
[Time, date & the weather]
GRAMMAR
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Memorized forms of the verbs SER, HACER, and TENER.
Telling the day of the week in Spanish.
Telling the date in Spanish.
Telling the weather in Spanish.
Telling your age in Spanish
Telling time in Spanish.
CULTURE
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Reversed seasons in southern hemisphere.
Differences in telling time & date in Spanish countries.
General weather in Spanish Speaking countries.
ASSESSMENTS
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Vocabulary quizzes
Telling the day & date quiz
Telling time quiz
Speaking Performance [Ask & answer personal/basic questions]
o Both students will ask & answer questions relating to:
 Name
 How are you?
 Where are you from?
 Phone number
 Age
 Birthday
o Student A will ask student B about:
 The date
 The weather
o Student B will ask student B about:
 The day of the week
 The time
UNIT 2 THEME: La hora, la fecha y el tiempo
[Time, date & the weather]
NOTES
To ask what day it is, say: ¿Que día es hoy?
To answer say:
Hoy es name of day of the week.
To ask what day tomorrow is, say: ¿Qué día es mañana?
To answer say:
Mañana es name of day of the week.
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The days of the week are not capitalized in Spanish.
Note that the week is considered to begin on Monday in most Hispanic countries
To ask the date, say: ¿Cuál es la fecha?
To answer say:
(Hoy) Es el # of date de name of month
(Today) It is the _____ of _____.
Examples:
Hoy es el dos de marzo.
Today is the second of March.
Mi cumpleaños es el dieciocho de noviembre.
My birthday is the eighteenth of November.
EXCEPTION – the 1st of the month
 Use the word primero (1st) instead of uno (1).
Mañana es el primero de mayo.
Tomorrow is the first of May.
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The months are not capitalized in Spanish.
To ask someone’s age say: ¿Cuántos años tienes?
[literally – “how many years do you have?”
To answer say: Tengo #of years old años.
(literally – I have # years.)
To ask the time in Spanish, say: ¿Qué hora es?
[literally – What hour is it?]
If it is one o’clock [1:00] say: Es la una.
UNIT 2 THEME: La hora, la fecha y el tiempo
[Time, date & the weather]
If it is any other hour [2:00 – 12:00] say: Son las followed by the # of the hour.
Son las cuatro.
[4:00]
For times between :01 and :30, you add the word y and the # of minutes after the hour.
Examples:
Son las cinco y veinte.
Son las once y dos.
[5:20]
[11:02]
For the quarter [:15] and half [:30] hours, the words cuarto and media are used instead of
the words for fifteen and thirty.
Examples:
Son las seis y cuarto.
Son las doce y media.
[6:15]
[12:30]
For times between :31 and :59, you go up on the hour to the next, add the word menos and
subtract minutes back from the next hour.
Examples:
Son las ocho menos diez.
Son las cuatro menos veinticinco.
[7:50]
[3:35]
For quarter till the hour [:45], a special word is used.
Examples:
Son las diez menos cuarto.
Son las tres menos cuarto.
[9:45]
[2:45]
Watch out for:
Es la una menos diez.
Son las dos menos cuarto.
[12:50]
[1:45]