Puerto Rico Travel Brochure

This unit in our Spanish 2 course we learned a great deal. We learned about new conjugations and how to apply them in conversation. These new conjugations include -ar -er -ir verbs as well as ser and estar. Learning these expanded our potential for sentence complexity, and allowed us to try more new and fun sentences. We also learned about comparatives and superlatives to further describe something. Finally this action project was to create a fake travel brochure for the country of our choice. We had to apply what we had learned into it, and creatively present it.

Afterword: This action project was honestly not my favorite. While it was interesting to apply what I had learned and to refresh my brain on the subjects; there was not much flexibility in how to apply my own creative flair. Otherwise something else worth mentioning is the difficulty I felt with applying all the conjugations I learned in sentences in the slideshow. Overall this project was a solid 7/10.

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