February 2 nd & 3 rd (SPAN 2) Bell ringer: Verb of the day: Cortar – to cut/to chop On the top of the index card, write today’s date. Then write today’s verb and draw a picture to help you remember the meaning of the verb. On the back side of the same index card, write the meaning of the verb in English. Write a sentence in Spanish saying….. “Yesterday, I cut the apples for the fruit salad.”

Padre Nuestro En el nombre del padre, el hijo, y el Espíritu Santo, Amen. Padre nuestro, que estás en el cielo. Santificado sea tu nombre. Venga tu reino. Hágase tu voluntad en la tierra como en el cielo. Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día. Perdona nuestras ofensas, como también nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden. No nos dejes caer en tentación y líbranos del mal. Amen.

Spanish Club Members:  Your chocolate money was due on Friday, January 30 th. I have several students who did NOT turn in their money. I need you to bring it to me tomorrow!  Bailey Marchal & Laura Mendez will each receive a $25 gift card for selling 100+ bars!  Isabelle Rindahl, Hannah Brockette, & Katherine Haley will each receive a $10 gift card for selling over 50 bars!

QUIZ TIME: Grammar Quiz # 13: Making Comparisons Take out a sheet of paper and number from 1 to 10. Don’t forget to write your heading! Flip your paper over when you finish and then SIT QUIETLY! You can put your head down on your desk, draw a picture, or write me a note while you wait for your classmates to finish testing!

Homework check: Last class you were asked to complete WB pg. 91 in el cuaderno de práctica. Please place your work on your desk now, so that you can get a completion stamp. We will go over the correct answers together. You should be checking & correcting your answers!

Ch. 8 Goals “La comida” Learn vocabulary to talk about food and describe meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) Review how to conjugate stem-changing verbs in the preterite past tense (“slipper verbs”) Review: how to use double object pronouns to avoid repetition Culture - Identify some native fruits & vegetables of the Americas & some special dishes of Latin America Learn how to use comparisons of equality, inequality, and irregular comparisons to compare 2 people or things. (better than, more than, etc.) Learn how to use superlatives to express the highest or lowest degree of a quality (the best, the worst, etc.)

Review: Comparisons of Equality & Inequality  To say that something is equal (“as much as”), use… Tan como with adjectives/adverbs (the “ly’s” in English) Tanto/a (s) como is ONLY used with nouns Tanto como can be used after verbs, but it DOESN’T change in gender or number!  To say that something is unequal “more/less than”, use… más/menos que with adjectives/adverbs/nouns *When making a comparison with numbers, use más/menos de rather than más/menos que!

Let’s talk….Superlatives! Are used to express the highest or lowest degree of a quality. (ex. Restaurant survey/rating) Use the following formula to form superlatives: el/la/los/las + [noun] + más / menos + adjective + de *NOTE: The noun can be omitted if the person, place, or thing being referred to is clear! el / la peor (the worst) el / la mejor (the best) zero 10

Example: The girl is the tallest of the students. (Tallest is not a word in Spanish, so we have to say it as “most tall”.) Use the Superlatives formula: El/la/los/las + más/menos + adjective + de La chica es la más alta de los estudiantes. *NOTE: Make sure the adjective & definite article (el/la/los/las) agree with the subject in gender & number!

Like with comparisons, some adjectives will also change when made into a superlative: Bueno/a el/ la mejor (good) (the best) Malo/a el/ la peor (bad)(the worst) Grande el/ la mayor (big)(the biggest) Pequeño/a el/la menor (small)(the smallest) Joven el/la menor (young)(the youngest) Viejo/a el / la mayor (old) (the oldest) changes to

Example: The girl is the youngest of the family. Use the Superlatives formula: El/la/los/las + más/menos + adjective + de La chica es la menor de la familia. *Notice how this sentence DOESN’T use más/menos! With irregulars, you do not need to use more/less because it’s already in the word = youngest.

Absolute Superlatives: To exaggerate that something is “extremely” or “very”, you can drop the last vowel of the adjective and add “–ísimo/a (s)”. Examples: malo mal malísimo/a (s) bueno buen buenísimo/a (s) mucho much muchísimo/a (s) Careful! The following have spelling changes: Rico riquísimo/a (s) Fácil facilísimo/a (s) Largo larguísimo/a (s) Joven jovencísimo/a (s) Feliz felicísimo/a (s) Trabajador trabajadorcísimo/a (s)

Let’s use Superlatives with some Guinness Book of World Records Winners

El perro, Zeus (Michigan) El Libro Guinnes declaró que Zeus es el perro más grande del mundo.

Asako Kanda, una fanática de Hello Kitty El Libro Guinnes declaró que ella tiene la mayor colección del mundo de memorabilia Hello Kitty.

Roger Allsopp El Libro Guinnes declaró que Roger es el hombre mayor del mundo en cruzar el canal inglés.

El perro, Harbor El Libro Guinnes declaró que Harbor es el perro con las orejas más largas del mundo.

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder En 2015, Forbes declaró que Bill Gates es el hombre más rico del mundo.

And now a joke using Superlatives --- ¡Jaja! :D

Homework (la tarea): Do WB pg. 93 in el cuaderno de práctica. -On Activity 1, you need to finish the subject. 1) pick a movie 2) pick a type of food (mexican, chinese, etc.) 3) pick a family member 4) pick any book 5) pick a vacation destination -On Activity 2, you will need to add –ísimo/a (s) to the adjective. DUE NEXT CLASS PERIOD!

YOUR HOMEWORK IS TO STUDY FOR THE …. WHICH WILL BE NEXT CLASS PERIOD OVER USING SUPERLATIVES!