Have you ever happened upon a magazine that had a really eye catching picture only to find out that it was written in Spanish? Well don't let language barriers stop you, Spanish has many cognates (words that are very similar in Spanish and English) that make deciphering it much easier than one might imagine. Examples include el arte, los colores, entratenameinto etc. Additionally, think of all of the things you can learn in a magazine just by looking at the pictures and making inferences.
This was what we did today in class. Using descriptions and pictures of magazine covers in our books, we made a list of all of the cognates and another list of all the words that we had already learned in Spanish. It is amazing how much students were able to understand after only a few months of Spanish.
We also introduced vocabulary and expressions from the third section of the Chapter which we began today. Tomorrow we will continue to practice this new information.
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