"Una Semana Típica" means "A Typical Week." We already started this Chapter with "Verbos Tener y Venir." Try to understand these verbs and start memorizing them, please! I also gave you handouts with these verbs and exercises (to conjugate them in sentences). You will have a Quiz on this before the end of this Third Quarter (March 28).
Quiz date: Friday, March 21, 2014. I will add this quiz grade for this quarter, and also give you a Workbook grade. Workbook pages to complete for a grade: From Chapter 4, pages 72-79 (pg. 73, No. 4 only); from Chapter 5, page 81 (No. 2 only, to answer these True and False questions you must read pages 185 and 193 on your LIBROS, to learn about Costa Rica, my country); and also page 82 ("Verbo Tener") and page 94 ("Verbo Venir"), great to review for the Quiz.
The quiz will include "muy" and "mucho." Remember: "muy" (adverb) means very and you use it with adjectives - ie. Estoy muy cansada; él es muy simpático. "Mucho" (an adjective and an adverb) means many or a lot, and you use it with nouns and verbs. When used with nouns it changes with the nouns' gender -whether they are feminine or masculine- and whether the nouns are singular or plural - ie. Mi hermano tiene muchos libros en su mochila; mi prima tiene muchas blusas verdes. So, unlike other adjectives, "mucho/mucha/muchos/muchas" is placed before the noun they modify. When used with a verb, as an adverb, "mucho" remains the same and is placed after the verb - ie. Me gusta leer mucho; yo como mucho (with a noun used as an adjective it would change: yo como muchos frijoles); ella estudia mucho; ella habla mucho. Check the video on "Fave Links" or click here: Muy vs. Mucho. Any questions? Please ask señora Feld.
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| Verbos Tener y Venir (also check Textbook pages 186 and 204) |
Notice that these verbs are very irregular, and they are also "stem-changing" verbs; which means that their base or stem changes. The stem of "tener" is "ten" and the "e" changes to "ie" in some of the conjugations, as you can see above. The same happens with "venir." The "e" changes to "ie" for "tú, Ud./él/ella" and "Uds./ellos/ellas;" but it remains the same for "nosotros y vosotros." The "yo" form is different, though. It's not "yo teno" or "yo veno," but "yo tengo" and "yo vengo."
Examples with Verbo Tener: ¿Cuántos años tienes (tú)? Yo tengo 15 años. ¿Cuántos libros
tienes en tu mochila? Tengo seis libros grandes. ¿Qué tiene el profesor en la
clase de español? Tiene un mapa de Costa Rica. ¿Qué tiene tu hermano en su
mochila? Tiene dos cuadernos, tres libros y seis CDs. Daniel tiene una revista.
Tu abuela tiene una casa muy bonita. Tus padres tienen un equipo de sonido muy
bueno. Mi mamá tiene tres hermanas. ¿Cuántos hermanos tienes tú? Yo tengo un
hermano y dos hermanas. Nosotros tenemos frío. Tenéis dinero? Mis tías tienen
muchas revistas.
Capítulo 5 starts on page 180, and I need you to learn the following vocabulary words and expressions (not all the vocabulary words from this chapter): una semana típica, el dinero, la tienda, los artículos electrónicos, el correo electrónico, el equipo de sonido, la computadora, el disco compacto, el CD, los discos compactos, los CDs, el DVD, los DVDs, la televisión, la radio (el radio), la canción, las canciones, la música, ¡Qué lástima!, la chica entra a la tienda, la película. You can learn the other vocabulary words from page 182 if you wish, or learn to recognize them (but I won't ask you to define them in test or quizzes - we can work with these words in sentences, but you don't have to memorize them). You only have to memorize the ones in this paragraph!
In this chapter, you will also learn the "Direct Object Pronouns" (los pronombres de complement directo), page 194. Read and understand the "Estructura" on this page. I will explain these in class and we will do many exercises to try to understand how to use these pronouns in sentences. So we will learn a new song, notice the differences. First song: me te se - nos os se (Reflexive Pronouns); Second song: me te le - nos os les (Indirect Object Pronouns); Third song: me te lo la - nos os los las (Direct Object Pronouns).
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