Elementary Spanish/Unit3.1

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Unit 3: Elementary Spanish

In this Unit, we will focus on the themes of personal experience and family tradition.
Goals Introduction to adverbs Click here for the Warm Up Activity In a previous lesson, we learned that illustrations give a plethora of information in fiction books. In non-fiction books, the picture can also give us hints about definition of words. Using the pictures, please identify what kind of animal is underlined in the story.

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Next, we'll read through the Featured Story for this lesson: Los Animales de la Ciudad. This is a nonfiction story about city animals. Try to practice information from previous lessons and determine the tense of the verbs within the story and identify nouns. Featured Story: Los Animales de la Ciudad

Recognition and Modelling

In this section, we'll begin a more focused practice on the use of adverbs. Adverbs, or verb descriptors, typically follow a uniform formula for creating -ly adverbs based on the root. Generally, to create -ly adjectives, you take the root word followed by -mente. For example: Adjective: Adverb: Example: silenciosa [quiet] silenciosamente [quietly] El hombre camina silenciosamente en la biblioteca. rapido [quick] rapidamente [quickly] La profesora habla rapidamente. Adverb Activities Activity 1 To get more familiarity with adverbs, use these flash cards. Activity 2 Make a list of the adverbs in Activity 1 and use them to create original sentences of your own.

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