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Unit 2A

Objectives

•Talk about school schedules and the subjects you are taking.
• Discuss what students do during the day.
• Ask and tell who is doing an action.
• Compare your school with that of a Spanish speaking student

Vocabulary to know

• periods (1st, 2nd, 3rd -> 10th)
• subjects generally taken by high school students
• verbs like estudio (I study), necesito (I need), and tengo/tienes (I have/You have)
• adjectives to describe classes
• question words like: how many, which, what's the class like, st what time, and who (cuántas, qué, cómo es la clase, a qué hora dn quién)
• subject pronouns like:

Singular subject pronouns		Plural subject pronouns
I	yo	nosotros (male + females or just males) nosotras (just females)	we
you (familiar, informal)	tú	vosotros(male + females or just males) vosotras (used only in Spain - (just females))	you guys
you (as in Sir or man - unfamiliar, formal)	Ud. (usted)	Uds. (formal in Spain; both formal and informal in latinamerica)	you (gentlemen, ladies in Spain) or you guys
he	él	ellos (male + females or just males)	they
she	ella	ellas (just females)	they

Unit 2 B

Objectives

• Describe a classroom
• Indicate where things are located
• Talk about more that one object or person
• Understand cultural perspectives on school

Vocabulary and grammar to know

• words for the usual things found in a classroom, pgs. 100-103 (words in blue)
• words to describe where something is (encima de ____ , debajo de ____ , detrás de ____ , delante de ____ , al lado de ____ , a la derecha de ____*, a la izquierda de ____*
• Hay (there is, there are)
• question word or where is something (Dónde está ____ ?)
• conjugation of the verb estar

yo	estoy	nosotros nosotras	estamos
tú	estás	vosotros vosotras	*estáis*
Ud.	está	Uds.	están
él		ellos
ella		ellas

• how to make nouns and their definite or indefinite articles plural

	Article	Singlular	Plural
♂ male	definite	el escritorio	los escritorios
♂ male	indefinite	un escritorio	unos escritorios

♀ female	definite	la ventana	las ventanas
♀ female	indefinite	una ventana	unas ventanas

• using de to express posession (Es el libro de Miguel- It is the book of Miguel) because in Spanish there isn't a way to express posession using the 's that is normally used in English (It's Mike's book)