SPAN 100 AMU Week 4 lesson Spanish I American Military University

SPAN 100 AMU Week 4 lesson Spanish I American Military University assistance is available on Domyclass

Lesson Overview

• Assignment: Rosetta Stone Unit two, Lessons three & 4 + Milestone
  • Grammar focus (ser v estar)–part of journal entry for this week
  • Cultural Forum: Cultural Notes: Identity in the Great American Melting Pot Cultural  This week students will continue to work towards proficiency with the previously studied content. Students will be introduced to talking about origin and where one is from using the verb SER. Students will begin to distinguish the difference between SER and ESTAR and will demonstrate comprehension through sentence creation in the forum. Students will continue to build on the vocabulary and concepts we have been developing around greetings and introductions and conversation.
    Students will be able to:
    • Apply vocabulary to sentence structure
    • Describe clothing using colors physical attributes;
    • Express physical states, physical attributes using SER and ESTAR
    • Develop conversational dialogue
      In this lesson, we will discuss:
    • Origin
    • Difference between SER and ESTAR
    • Cultural discussion: Identification and the “Melting Pot”
    • SER vs ESTAR
    • Interrogatives
    • Sentence Building
    • Asking and answering questions
    • Clothing, colors
    • Physical attributes; physical states
    • Conversational dialogue
    • Cultural Conversation: Heritage, the Melting Pot, and Identification Note: We have already discusses SER v ESTAR but it is an ongoing theme that requires a lot of attention. Remember how we have used these verbs so far and do not forget that, rather add these additional uses of the verbs and try to keep them separate.
      The following activities and assessments need to be completed this week: Journal Entry Four

Spanish-speaking Countries

Topics to be covered include:

• Greetings and introductions: where are you from?
• Vocabulary – colors, clothing
• Grammar – physical attributes and physical states
• Conversational

In Lesson 4 you will learn the words used to describe color, talk with others about a person’s origin and nationality. We will compare ESTAR and SER and use them in conversations. We will also learn how to discuss a picture or scenario.

Here is a complete list of the Spanish-speaking countries and nationalities (note that not all follow the same pattern of just adding –o, -os, etc.:

Nationality

¿De dónde eres tú? ¿De dónde es Usted? ¿De dónde son Ustedes?

Using the forms of the verb SER that we learned in a previous lesson, let us now use the “tú” form, “Usted” form, and “Ustedes” form to show some examples of questions and the answers that would result.

If you recall, when someone asks a question to “tú” the answer comes back in “yo” form, because the person is asking you a question, so you answer back as I or Yo:

Example: ¿De dónde eres tú? Where are you from?

Yo soy de Uruguay. I am from Uruguay.

If someone asks you what nationality you are, they would ask you like this:

¿De qué nacionalidad eres tú? What nationality are you?

Yo soy uruguayo. I am Uruguayan.

Notice how in Spanish, nationalities are not capitalized, only the countries, so ‘uruguayo’ is written with the lower case, however, the country, “Uruguay” is capitalized and in English, Uruguayan is also capitalized.

Now, let’s suppose that you want to ask more than one person where they are from:

¿De dónde son Ustedes? Where are you (all) from?

Nosotros somos de Guatemala. We are from Guatemala.

Nosotros somos guatelmaltecos. We are Guatemalan.

In a previous lesson, you learned colors. Let us review those and then learn some new ones!

New Colors

Here are some new colors to learn:

Using Ser

This table shows you the ways you can use SER:

Using Estar

This reference guide explains uses of the verb: