Hazlo Ahora Silently on your Hazlo Ahora box

Hazlo Ahora • Silently, on your Hazlo Ahora box, copy and complete the following statements about your age in YEARS: • heard your first English word at _____. - said your first word at ______. - read your first word at ______. - wrote for the first time at _____.

Metas de Aprendizaje • I can identify five key points to learning a language. • I can follow Srta. MV’s directions in Spanish. Expectation: Hold your questions until the end. Write the question down if you think you will forget.

¿Cierto o Falso? • After I say a statement show whether you think it’s true or false • Cierto - stand • Falso - stay seated

How humans learn languages… Stop, Think, & Write! ➢ How did you learn English? ➢ When you watch a baby, how do they learn to speak and communicate? ➢ Did you take grammar lessons when you were 3 or 5?

Key Point #1: Babies learn by listening and watching people. People make language easy for babies to understand babies slowly try to repeat.

Adults should learn languages in the same way! It’s much easier to remember something if you have experienced it in context. Books and CDs can be used, but they are not as fast as natural acquisition. → So learn like a baby!

Stop and Think! Would you learn Spanish faster…… I. by moving to a place where they only speak Spanish, talking to your new friends, going out and watching TV? OR II. by moving to a place where they only speak Spanish, staying in your house, reading a Spanish grammar book and doing grammar exercises?

Key Point #2: The most natural way for adults to learn a language is to imitate the way that babies learn. The ability to understand, read, write and speak in Spanish.

How many times do adults need to read and hear words? Science tells us that the average person needs to hear words at least 50 times in context before they can remember them. hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola

Adults need as much or more repetition than babies! ? ?

Babies get… 10 hours a day X 6 years ______ 20, 000+ hours

UYA Spanish students get… 50 minutes a day X 172 days ______ ~143 hours

Key Point #3: In Spanish class, every minute counts.

Stop, Think, & Write! ➢ Can you remember words you’ve heard only once? ➢ Have you read a word, been told the meaning, only to forget what it means the next time you are reading? ➢ How many times do you have to read a new word before you can use it when you write?

Key Point #4: • Adults must also listen and read many, many times before they are capable of speaking or writing in a language.

Time well spent… • We will spend most of our time in class listening and reading because listening and reading words and phrases in context, many times over will help cement Spanish into our brains. • This will enable us to produce Spanish through writing and speaking in the rest of our class time.

Key Point #5: Input (listening and reading) takes up 80% of our focus, while output (writing and speaking) takes up 20%. INPUT Listening Reading OUTPUT Writing Speaking

Recap! (Cough! Check your notes) 1. Babies learn by listening. 2. The most natural way for adults to learn is to imitate the way that babies learn. 3. In Spanish class, every minute counts. 4. Adults must also listen and read many, many times before they can speak or write. 5. Input takes up 80% of our focus in class, while output takes up 20%.

TPR Rules 1. No talking! 2. 100% participation, 100% of the time 3. Do exactly as I do

Comentario What was one of the easiest and hardest thing about TPR?

What’s our signal if I don’t understand? → Time Out! What am I supposed to be doing? → Just this! → Head up. → Shoulders squared. → Eyes on me.

Boleto de Salida Answer the following questions: 1. How will listening and watching help you learn Spanish? 2. Why does every minute count in Spanish? 3. What did you have to do to be able to follow Stra. MV’s directions during the last activity?