10/18 - "ser" and subject pronouns

1. Esponja - class vocab
2. el verbo ser. We repeated the conjugated forms in order many, many times and in different ways: soy, eres, es, somos, sois, son.
3. I showed how these fit into a conjugation grid.
4. The uses of "ser". There are 2 verbs in Spanish that mean "to be". Ser is used to things that are relatively permanent. The teachers at Heritage like to use the memorization technique of TOPPNIC to remember used of ser.
Time
Origin
Profession
Possession
Nationality
Inherent Characteristic

We discussed how all those uses are relatively permanent, hard or impossible to change.
5. Subject pronouns. Then we discussed the use of subject pronouns. This seemed easy for most students (yay!). When talking ABOUT someone, you use the first or third person (not Ud.) - yo, el, ella, nosotros, ellos, ellas. When talking TO someone, you use a form of YOU - tu, usted, vosotros, ustedes.
6. Text p.82 and 83, we read explanation and did activities aloud.

La tarea: Workbook pp 31 and 35.