July 2015 Speaking Assignment

¡Hola estudiantes! Welcome back to our class blog! Just like last time, our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions.

Activity:

In the IB Summer Assignment packet, item #4 was the speaking assignments. For the July message, you may call my school voicemail at 517-755-4261 and leave a message describing one of the pictures below, or you may do an audio recording of yourself on your computer and e-mail the file to me at charles.horner@lansingschools.net. Choose one of the pictures below. Spend a few minutes thinking about what you can say to describe what you see, what might be happening in the picture, where it might be, etc. Call my voicemail, state your name, and talk about the photo for about two minutes in Spanish. DO NOT write out exactly what you want to say and read it over the phone. DO NOT memorize what you want to say! You can describe the photo, but also BE SURE to talk about the TOPIC of the photo. The captions can help, but should not limit you.

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July 2015 Articles

¡Feliz verano estudiantes! Welcome back to our Spanish 4 IB blog! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the drop down boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). If you have ANY questions, please let me know! Tip: If you have any doubts or fears about losing your work, do as I do, and copy and paste your answers into a Word document, Notepad, e-mail to yourself, etc., so you have an electronic copy as backup. I will be posting to the class blog on a weekly basis from now on, so stay tuned and check back frequently!

Activity:

In the IB Summer Assignment packet, item #3 indicated that you were to go to the following links to find a newspaper or news site from a Spanish-speaking country to find articles in Spanish:

http://mexico.cnn.com/?hpt=ed_Mexico

http://internacional.elpais.com/

http://noticias.latino.msn.com/

http://www.prensaescrita.com/

You are required to find two current events articles published in July 2014, just like you did for the month of June. Have a hard copy printed of each article. You need to have read them and understand them. A great online dictionary is www.wordreference.com if you need help with the vocabulary, verb tenses, etc. Here are the questions to answer for EACH article for the month of July. These questions are the same as the questions for your June articles, but be aware that the August questions will be different: 1) What is the name of the article? 2) What website did you find the article on? 3) Type a 3 sentence summary in English of what the article is about. An easy way to do this is to summarize it in a sentence or two and then tell me your personal opinion or reaction. Sounds easy, but being succinct and including the most relevant information can be difficult. Do NOT copy and paste a sentence from the article and don’t use a translator! ¡Buena suerte!