Transcript Capítulo 9 alrededor del mundo Concepto

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Concepto:
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What you will find in this presentation:
1. Introduction to Weather Expressions
A. How to express “it”
B. Differing Verb Expressions
2. Nouns vs. Verbs
3. Practice Exercises
It’s important to know the phrase “it’s _____”.
In English, we use this all the time when we express the
weather. But…what exactly is “it”?
Are we talking about the sky?
The location of where we are at?
What is “it”?
In Spanish, it is the same thing. However, there is no specific
translation for the word “it”.
In order to express “it”, in Spanish, you simply do not put a subject in
front of a verb at all.
Example: Es bonito. (It’s pretty.)
Example: Es una lástima. (It’s a shame.)
Example: Me aburre. (It bores me.)
Notice that in all of the above examples, there are no subject
pronouns in front of the verb. This is the simple way to express “it” in
Spanish.
Weather expressions vary in English and in Spanish.
This means that we use different verb forms to express the
weather.
For example, one can say in English:
• “It’s cloudy.”
• “It’s storming.”
• “It’s hot.”
However, you would never say “It’s clouding.” or “It’s hotting.”
Weather expressions vary. This means that there are different verb
forms to use when expressing the weather. It depends on the
expression, just like in English, we would say “It’s sunny” instead of
“It’s sunning.”
The four ways to express weather are:
• Hace
Example: Hace calor.
• Hay
Example: Hay niebla.
• Está
Example: Está nublado.
• A verb that stands alone. Example: Llueve.
(It’s hot.)
(It’s foggy.)
(It’s cloudy.)
(It’s raining.)
Review:
• Nouns: are names of people, places or things that when in the common
form can take an article “the” or “a/an”.
• Verbs: are words that express a state of being, action and that can take
tense (i.e. past, present or future).
These concepts apply to nouns and verbs in Spanish.
You will notice that the verb phrases that you are learning in Spanish refer to
weather that is occurring or happening.
Many of these words though can be used as nouns. How do you tell?
Simple…by the article.
Llueve. vs. la lluvia
• Llueve. Is actually a sentence in Spanish, which is why it is capitalized and
ends with a period.
• La lluvia is obviously a noun, because it takes the article “la”.
Llueve. is a verb phrase already, it cannot DO something.
La lluvia is a noun, it can DO something, because it can be a subject.
Example: La lluvia es deprimida. (The rain is depressing.)
Nieva. vs. la nieve
Let’s try this example with “snow”.
1. La nieve es blanca.
(The snow is white.)
2. Nieva mucho en Colorado.
(It snows a lot in Colorado.)
1. La nieve is an object that takes an article and can “do” something. The verb
that it is doing is “being” white.
2. Nieva is a verb phrase that is the actual action pertaining to what it does a lot
in Colorado.
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the answer.
1. The first click will show all the problems.
2. Write your answers on a piece of paper LARGE and NEATLY
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5. Take each piece of the number at a time, as it takes a step by step process to build large
numbers.
1. It is humid in August.
Hay humedad en agosto.
2. It is always sunny in Philadelphia.
Siempre hace sol en Philadelphia.
3. The rain is depressing.
La lluvia es deprimida.
4. It is cold when it is cloudy.
Hace frío cuando está nublado.
5. It never snows in Phoenix.
Nunca nieva en Phoenix.
6. It is windy in the fall.
Hace viento en el otoño.
7. I like the snow.
Me gusta la nieve.
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1. Check over your work.
2. If you had any errors, make sure to be aware of what they were.
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If they were common errors, then make sure you aware of that error before the exam.
3. If you had different kinds of errors, and are having difficulties with expressing weather; this
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4. If your errors are minor and consistent, make sure to fix those errors.