What better way to start up a conversation with someone than to ask them the time? The only glitch is, you need to know how to do it!
In Spanish it is a little different than in English, so you need to know the correct formula and way to tell the hours and minutes.
Bueno, entonces… Class 9 will teach you all about asking and telling time, so you can get somewhere without the burden of a watch!
Oh, and it also goes into Prepositions and the days of the week, crucial FOR setting UP dates! hee hee…
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Week 2
Class 9
| CAPÍTULOS (Chapters) |
| INFORMACIÓN DE REFERENCIA (Reference Information) |
| GLOSARIO (Glossary) |
| EJERCICIOS ESCRITOS (Written exercises/Quiz) |
| PRÓXIMAMENTE (Preview) |
| SEE ALL THE SUPPORT MATERIALS |
There was a lot in Bueno, entonces…Class 9, such as TIME, DAYS, PREPOSITIONS as well as a review over Reflexive verbs and Adverbs.
Make sure you understood it all by looking over this Study Guide for Class 9. You can also take the Quiz for Class 9 to be certain you got the concepts before starting Bueno, entonces… Class 10.
As always, if you are ever in doubt about the very helpful color codes and symbols shown to you on the Magic Pizarro, review them here: http://www.generallinguistics.com/bueno-entonces-key.html
CAPÍTULOS
Here are a list of the different sections for Class 9. Make sure to go back and review the section if you didn’t understand the concept completely:
| Chapter | Time | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | 00:00-00:26 | Opening & title |
| Chapter 2 | 00:27-02:16 | Introduction to Time |
| Chapter 3 | 2:17 – 3:32 | Time & date |
| Chapter 4 | 03:33 – 6:59 | Time explained |
| Chapter 5 | 6:59 – 12:35 | Practice telling time / Routines |
| Chapter 6 | 12:36 – 13:43 | Time qualifying words |
| Chapter 7 | 13:44 – 16:35 | Time discussion / Pronunciation of the J & G |
| Chapter 8 | 16:36 – 18:21 | Verbs + “que” |
| Chapter 9 | 18:22 – 21:06 | Preposition combinations |
| Chapter 10 | 21:06 – 25:20 | Preposition practice |
| Chapter 11 | 25:21 – 26:13 | Tampoco v. también |
| Chapter 12 | 26:14 – 28:43 | Cultural differences / Practice with question and time answers |
| Chapter 13 | 28:43 – 30:58 | Military time / Farewell using time |
| Chapter 14 | 30:59 – end | Closing |
INFORMACIÓN DE REFERENCIA
Grammar / Language tips:
VERB + QUE:
When placing QUE after these verbs: “Saber” (to know facts), ”Creer” (to believe), “Pensar” (to think), QUE then means “THAT”.
For example:
“Creo que los hombres son estúpidos” (I believe that men are stupid)
“Sabes que la palabra ‘esposa’ no es amable” (You know that the word ‘esposa’ is not nice.)
“Ellos piensan que es gracioso” (They think that it is funny).
Prepositions:
Prepositions can be tricky things to get your head around. Essentially they describe the relationship between two things in regards to LOCATION (on, in), DIRECTION (forward, through) and TIME (before, during).
The important thing to remember is that there is not always a reason for WHY we use certain prepositions with specific verbs, and this is true in English and Spanish.
For instance, in English we say “I’m talking ON the telephone”, while in Spanish you say “Estoy hablando POR el telefono” (I am talking for the phone).
Another: in English we say, “The money is ON the table” and in Spanish it goes, “ La plata está EN la mesa” (The money/silver is in the table).
Unfortunately, you need to memorize which prepositions go with which verbs, as there is no steadfast rule. See all the prepositions in Spanish in the glossary and pay attention when Jimena speaks to see how she uses them!
Days of the week:
Can you tell which days are which?
Review Reflexive Verbs and Adverbs:
You might have noticed that David and Jimena were practicing some reflexive verbs. Don’t remember how they work? Check out Study Guide 6 for a flashback: http://blog.buenoentonces.com/2010/12/study-guide-for-class-6/#info
They also reviewed how to make ADVERBS, which are very handy for describing what actions are like. You first saw this in Class 5, so look again if you want a refresher:
http://blog.buenoentonces.com/2010/12/study-guide-class-5/#info
TIME:
You can tell the time using the verb SER + la(s), because the noun hora (hour) is feminine. Notice that with most hours you use son las… , but with one o’clock you use es la…
Use y (and) to add minutes past the hour. You can also use cuarto (quarter) or quince (fifteen) for a quarter of an hour. Notice media (half) or treinta (thirty) can be used to mean half an hour.
When telling time past the half hour, you subtract the minutes from the hour and use menos (less), like this:
GLOSARIO
Check out all the new words you learned! Make sure to review above for vocabulary on TIME and DAYS.
Remember the Color coding? We’ve used it here too:
Feminine Nouns / endings
Masculine Nouns / endings
Adjectives / Adverbs
Verbs – are all seen in the INFINITIVE form, click on them to see all their many conjugations.
Or look at our handy Verb Page (http://www.generallinguistics.com/conjugate-spanish-verbs/) to see them all!
| NOUNS | VERBS | ADJECTIVES/ADVERBS |
| La Atención (attention) | Abrir (to open) | Calificativo/a (qualifier) |
| El Banco (bank) | Adorar (to adore) | Cerrado/a (closed) |
| El Bar (bar) | Alcanzar (to be enough/ reach) | Cualquiera (anyone) |
| La Bicicleta (bicycle) | Andar (to ride/go) | Despitado/a (absent minded) |
| La Canción (song) | Aprovechar (to be useful) | Equivocado/a (wrong) |
| La Carta (letter) | Bañarse (to bathe onself) | Generalmente (generally) |
| La Casualidad (coincidence) | Buscar (to search, look for) | Íntimo/a (intimate) |
| El Colectivo (bus) | Conmemorar (to conemorate) | Jamás (never) |
| La Combinacion (combination) | Conversar (to converse) | Medio/a (half) |
| La Cuestión (question) | Ganar (to win) | Nunca (never) |
| La Culpa (blame) | Levantarse (to get up) | Ocasional/es (occasional) |
| El Daño (damage) | Masturbarse (to masterbate) | Ocasionalmente (occasionally) |
| El Dato (fact) | Morir (to die) | Obvio/a (obviously) |
| El Derecho (right) | Pasear (to take a walk) | Patriótico/a (patriotic) |
| El Descubrimiento (discovery) | Sacar (to remove, take out) | Siempre (always) |
| El Día (day) | Salir (to leave) | Sino (if not) |
| La Ducha (shower) | Valer (to be worth) | Tampoco (neither) |
| El Esgrima (fencing) | Útil (useful) | |
| El Espíritu (spirit) | ||
| La Esposa (wife/handcuffs) | ||
| La Fecha (date) | ||
| El Feriado (holiday) | PREPOSITIONS | |
| La Función (function) | A (to) | |
| La Gana (desire) | Antes (before) | |
| El Ganador (winner) | Con (with) | |
| La Hora (hour) | De (from) | |
| La Jirafa (giraffe) | Desde (from) | |
| El Lugar (place) | Después (after) | |
| Mentiroso/a (liar) | Durante (during) | |
| La Mesa (table) | En (in) | |
| La Natación (swimming) | Entre (between) | |
| El Nene (child) | Hasta (until) | |
| La Noche (night) | Mientras (while) | |
| La Novela (soap opera) | Mientra tanto (meanwhile) | |
| El Paraguas (umbrella) | Ni (nor) | |
| El Partido (game) | O (or) | |
| El Pensamiento (thinking) | Para (for) | |
| La Plata (money) | Por (for- time duration) | |
| La Preposición (preposition) | Sin (without) | |
| El Prisionero (prisoner) | Sobre (on) | |
| El Segundo (second) | ||
| El Tiempo (time) | ||
| La Tortura (torture) |
USEFUL PHRASES:
¿Qué hora es? (What hour is it?)
¿Me decís la hora? (Tell me the hour?)
¿Sabés la hora? (You know the hour?)
¿A qué hora empieza el partido? (At what hour does the game start?)
¿A qué hora cenamos hoy? (At what hour do we have dinner today?)
¿Qué día es tu cumpleaños? (What day is your birthday?)
…de vez en cuando (once in a while)
EJERCICIOS ESCRITOS
Make sure you’ve got it all! Test yourself here:
http://blog.buenoentonces.com/2011/01/quiz-for-class-9/
It’s a quick review, with only 10 questions. Get more than 70% and you can happily continue to Class 10 and find out how you can talk about all the fun things you like to do in your free time.
PRÓXIMAMENTE
WEEKENDS!
PARTIES IN SOUTH AMERICA!
FUN ACTIVITIES!
GRAMMAR!
Okay, so the last one doesn’t sound as fun, but it is also necessary for speaking a language. But that’s the good thing about Bueno, entonces… it teaches you both the difficult stuff and the fun stuff at the same time, so you aren’t bored and you are learning. Crazy that!
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David’s QUOTE of the CLASS:
Like to see ALL of the Support Materials?
You can view the most recent and up to date support materials here:
http://blog.buenoentonces.com/2011/01/see-all-the-support-materials/
Missed the Study Guide and Quiz for Class 8? Check it out here:
Study Guide: http://blog.buenoentonces.com/2011/01/study-guide-for-class-8/
Quiz: http://blog.buenoentonces.com/2011/01/quiz-for-class-8/
Let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions on the new materials in the comment section. Muchas Gracias!
That quiz was quite good…been very disappointed with the quizzes up to now…this one actually tests Spanish material covered in the course like telling the time, days of the week and conjugating verbs whilst the others have been too focussed on fun and games rather than really testing Spanish content…more of the same please. If I have not passed because of a fun and games question I move on to the next question anyway.