HOMEWORK: ANARANJADO
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 1 (due at class 2)
Lesson: Comparative Sentences
There are three types of comparative sentences.
1. Comparisons with two clauses.
Alfredo es más rápido que Simón. (quality) ("Alfredo es más rápido" is an independent clause. "que Simón [es]" is a dependent clause.)
Italia tiene más católicos que Turquía (quantity).
2. Superlatives (Note the use of the definite articles EL and LA.)
Este jardín es el más hermoso de la ciudad.
La casa de Roberto es la menos organizada del mundo.
3. Declarations of comparative quantity. (Note the use of the preposition DE and the presence of only one clause, not two.)
Rita tiene más de tres gatos.
Bill Gates tiene más de 2 millones de dólares.
Assignment 1
Do reading of your choice in Spanish (a children’s book, a chapter book, an article) and bring it to class, prepared to tell a partner about it. (This assignment applies to Homework 1, 3, 5, and 7.)
Assignment 2
Write four examples of each type of comparative sentence. Regarding your examples corresponding to type 2: please write them about singular
things (as in the examples).
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 2 (due at class 3)
Lesson: Plural Superlative Comparisons
When the superlative in question is plural, then everything referring to it has to correspond in gender (if possible) and number.
Example: Estos jardines son los más hermosos de la ciudad.
Note that four words (ESTOS, SON, LOS, and HERMOSOS) owe their form to the fact that JARDINES is plural and masculine.
OPTION 1
Option 1, Assignment 1
Redo the Assignment 1 from Anaranjado Class 1 over again, inventing new sentences, paying close attention to word order and that you have all
the parts necessary to convey the sort of comparison you want.
Option 1, Assignment 2
Rewrite your 5 new superlative sentences so that they are describing something plural. (With Option 1, between Assignments 1 and 2, you will have 20 twenty sentences.)
OPTION 2
Option 2, Assignment 1
Write a story about some who goes shopping in search of something (a watch, for example). Use at least one example from each type of comparative
sentence from last week's lesson in the story.
Option 2, Assignment 2
Write your 5 new superlative sentences so that they are describing something plural. These can be integrated into your story or not. What's
important is that you practice making everything correspond.
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 3 (due at class 4)
Lesson: Comparisons with Adverbs
Comparisons are made with adverbs in the same way they are made with adjectives.
Examples:
Alejandro es más atento que Eunice. (atento: adjective)
Alejandro escucha más atentamente que Eunice. (atentamente: adverb)
Alejandro es más sinceramente atento que Eunice. (sinceramente: adverb)
NOTES:
Adjectives describe nouns.
Adverbs describe verbs OR adjectives.
In example 2, ATENTAMENTE (the adverb) describes ESCUCHA (the verb in the sentence).
Example 3 is the same as example 1 except that SINCERAMENTE (an adverb) has been thrown in to qualify (describe) ATENTO (an adjective).
Like most adjectival comparisons, most adverbial comparisons use MÁS or MENOS and an adverb. But there are these exceptions:
BIEN becomes MEJOR
MAL becomes PEOR
Assignment 1
Do reading of your choice in Spanish (a children’s book, a chapter book, an article) and bring it to class, prepared to tell a partner about it.
Assignment 2, OPTION 1
Write five independent sentences like example 1 above and five more like example 2. Try to incorporate vocabulary from the unit we're studying.
Assignment 2, OPTION 2
Write a story using as many adverbial comparisons as you can, of both types, again about someone going shopping.
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 4 (Due at class 5)
Lesson: Comparisons of Equality (Adjectives and Adverbs)
Here's an example of this in English: My shoes are as red as a stop sign.
The operative word in English is AS, used twice: before both the descriptor (here, it's RED) and the second thing (here it's A STOP SIGN, but it could
be any noun or verb).
In Spanish, the same sentence is translated: Mis zapatos son tan rojos como una señal de alto.
Note that the words TAN and COMO take the place of AS... AS.
Here's an adverbial example: Alberto corre tan rápidamente como Eduardo.
Assignment
Write a story featuring original, creative sentences, using a different real-life comparison of equality of adjectives or adverbs. Incorporate vocabulary
from Unit Anaranjado 1: "DE COMPRAS."
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 5 (due at class 6)
Lesson: Comparisons of Equality (Nouns)
These comparisons have to do with quantity.
Examples:
El pescado tiene tanta sal como el pollo frito.
Fernanda conoce a tantos pilotos como Eduarda.
NOTES:
Example 1 uses TANTA... COMO, which means AS MUCH... AS. This expression is used with "non-count" nouns: things you don't count, like powder and liquids.
Example 2 uses TANTOS... COMO, which means AS MANY... AS. This expression is used with "count" nouns: things you do count, like pilots, shoes, and trees.
TANTO in any form is an adjective and therefore corresponds in gender and number with the noun it modifies.
Assignment 1
Do reading of your choice in Spanish (a children’s book, a chapter book, an article) and bring it to class, prepared to tell a partner about it.
Assignment 2
Write 10 different, original, creative sentences, using a different real-life comparison of equality of quantity of nouns.
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 6 (due at class 7)
Lesson 1: Some Uses of Definite Articles
1. With titles when speaking in the third person (though not when addressing someone directly)
El señor Pérez es ingeniero mecánico.
2. As a pronoun
Tu novela es más interesante que las de Isabel Allende.
3. When referring to part of the body or articles of clothing (instead of a possessive adjective)
Es necesario lavarse las manos antes de comer.
Tienes los zapatos sucios.
4. When talking about a family, though the surname remains in singular form.
Los García vienen a visitarnos hoy.
Lesson 2: Verbs Conjugated Like CONOCER in the present tense.
All these verbs use "-zco" in the first person singular form.
Here’s the conjugation of CONOCER:
conozco
conoces
conoce
conocemos
conocen
Other verbs that follow this pattern include:
agradecer
aparecer
carecer
complacer
crecer
desaparecer
enloquecer
establecer
fallecer
merecer
nacer
obedecer
ofrecer
parecer
parecerse a
pertencer
Assignment
Write an original story inspired by the unit vocabulary IN THE PRESENT TENSE, FROM THE FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE.
Use examples of each of the uses of definite articles given in Lesson 1, above.
Use a minimum of three of the verbs from the list from Lesson 2, and use them each in the first person singular form.
ANARANJADO HOMEWORK 7 (due at class 8)
Lesson 1: More Uses of Definite Articles (el, la, los, las)
1. When making generalizations
Los hombres son impacientes.
Las manzanas son ricas.
2. When talking about the time
Es la una.
Son las ocho y media.
3. When talking about days of the week.
El lunes tengo una cita con el doctor.
Estudio español los martes.
4. BUT NOT after the verb SER when talking about when an event will take place
La fiesta es viernes.
Lesson 2: Place names that take a definite article
Numerous (but by no means all) place names take an article. Examples:
El Cairo
La Haya (the Hague)
La India
La República Dominicana
El Salvador
La Arabia Saudita
La Argentina
el Brasil
el Camerún
el Canadá
la China
el Cuzco
el Ecuador
los Estados Unidos
las Filipinas
la Florida
la Habana
el Irak
el Irán
el Japón
el Líbano
La Meca
el Nepal
los Países Bajos (the Netherlands)
el Pakistán
el Paraguay
el Perú
el Reino Unido (the UK)
el Senegal
la Somalia
el Sudán
el Tibet
el Uruguay
el Vietnam
el Yemen
Assignment 1
Do reading of your choice in Spanish (a children’s book, a chapter book, an article) and bring it to class, prepared to tell a partner about it.
Assignment 2
Write two sentences for each use (or exception)--total 8. Use unit vocabulary.
Assignment 3
Online, do a search for at least one example from the above list in the text of any document. (Tip: Put your search phrase in quotes. For example, “el Yemen.”) Read at least some of the document and bring a printout to class.