Skip to main content

Buenos Aires Matching Game

         In this term of our Spanish 2 class we've been learning about how to use direct and indirect object pronouns in sentences.  We can use these types of pronouns to refer to something without directly using it's name.  With this new info we can now use sentences like: es el favorito de mi papá. él se lo comerá. which mean's 'That's my dad's favorite. He will eat it.'  This concept is important because it makes it so we don't have to keep saying the persons' name after it's already been established.  Aside from this, we also learned to use and conjugate -er, -ar, and -ir verbs in the present tense and present progressive.  We took these concepts and made it into a little matching game or 'Juego de Pareo'.  We made the matching game based on sights and activities from Buenos Aires, Argentina. On top of this we included vocabulary of common neighborhood spots such as churches, banks, schools, libraries, and bookstores. Lastly, we needed to find pictures of action verbs that relate to the grammar we learned, such as the afore mentioned present progressive.  Here are the images of before and after playing the matching game with a friend.

E.R - 'Buenos Aires Matching Game, Before' 2023

E.R - 'Buenos Aires Matching Game, After' 2023



Grammar Content:

Sentences using -er, -ar, and -ir verbs in the present tense.

Él come

Él nada

Élla camina

Él decide comer pasta

Sentences using the present progressive

Él esta comiendo

Él esta nadando

Élla esta caminando

Sentences using the direct and the indirect object pronouns.

Él la decide comer.

Ella les da la comida.


        This Action project was quite leisurely compared to most but I definitely enjoyed researching Buenos Aires and it's many 'must see' sights. The one part that was quite difficult for me, and took me some time to get down was the present progressive conjugations. They caused me a bit of confusion because mentally I wanted to just conjugate it like I would for the present tense. I learned to correct this silly mistake through practice and a lot of correcting throughout the course of the project. Glad I got the hang of it. If I were to to it again I would probably make more cards for a longer and more varied game. Altogether though I learned a lot and I hope to learn more soon!


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Drippy Stats

      This week at my unorthodox, project based high school, GCE lab school, we have finished up with our first Action project of the year for our water class. An action project is a project we complete that can be used to broadcast and show our learning in a unit, this unit we learned about conversions, fractions, and part vs. Percent. These topics were then applied to the real world when we learned about how many around the world do not have easy access to clean water and how this means that many around the world must walk long distances every day to bring home surface water to sustain themselves and their families.  This units action project echo's what we've learned and has provided us an opportunity to teach others about this ongoing tragedy.     to get some perspective on water usage we used a website to calculate approximately how much water we use on a daily basis, I learned that I use about 161 gallons of water daily which I found out is MORE than the US national avera

The US vs New Zealand: Push for Rainbow Leadership

     This week (10/22/21) in our humanities class, 'Sustainable Development goals and You'. We learned about Gender Equality and more specifically what gender is. We explored the gay rights movement and the women's suffrage movement. We saw how discrimination for gender or sexual identity badly affects things like safety and access to quality medical treatment. To see this in a different light we took a field experience to Andersonville to meet H-Melt and Molly who are activists for the gay rights movement. Molly created a mural in Andersonville that displayed what an abolitionist feminist world would be like, and H-melt helped as a consultant for Molly's art. This experience gave me a great opportunity to ask questions on Abolitionist Feminism. To put this all together we created a comparative essay to see how different countries are working on gender equality. Eyten, Ted. " Virginia Delegate Danica Roem speaking at the Victory F

Keeping our Vision on Fission!

 This unit we've been hard at work learning about functions, system of equations, and renewable energy.  We learned all about all the different types of energies and how they work and are used in the real world.  We spoke with Christa Markgraff who works in the natural gas industry to hear from someone with in-depth experience with all kinds of energy. Even though her work is in natural gas she explained all the different pros and cons of each energy type.  Did you know thorium used in nuclear power plants is one of the most efficient power sources?  I didn't It was really cool to talk to and ask questions to someone with proper experience in the field.  To wrap it all up we worked on creating an infomercial for a renewable resource of our choice.  It was fun because we got to take lots of creative liberty on this one. We even took lots of inspiration from the flex tape infomercials featuring the legendary Bob Saget. Now without further ado here's my infomercial! After comp