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Los meses y los días de la semana

(Months and Days of the Week)

Below is a mini lesson you can do on your own as an extra. Enjoy!

Los meses (The Months)

enero febrero marzo abril mayo junio

julio agosto septiembre octubre noviembre diciembre

Los días (The Days) - In Spanish the days of the week begin with lunes (Monday).

lunes martes miércoles jueves viernes sábado domingo

Learning Your New Vocabulary

• Make flashcards for your new los meses and los días vocabulary. See
Making Flashcards page for ideas on how to do this.
• Choose activities from the Making Flashcards page to begin learning these.
• Do Los días y los meses worksheet AND Más días y meses worksheet.

Using Your New Vocabulary: Audio files are included for these activities.
• Lay all your days flashcards on a table, English side up. Touch the day you
hear in Spanish. For extra challenge, have your flashcards out of order.
• Get a pencil and piece of paper. Write the day you hear in Spanish and then
the English next to it. After you do all of these, check your spelling.
• Lay all your months flashcards on a table, English side up. Touch the month
you hear in Spanish. For extra challenge, have your flashcards out of order.
• Now listen and write the month in Spanish you hear. Then check spelling.
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Making Flashcards

You can make your flashcards in different ways:

• Write the Spanish word on one side and the English on the back.
• Write the Spanish word on one side and draw or glue a picture on the back.
• Use your computer to make cool flashcards!
• Use a website that makes flashcards.

Practice ideas for flashcards

• Look at the Spanish word and guess the English word.

• Look at the English word and guess the Spanish word.
• Look at the English word and write the Spanish word.
• Look at the Spanish word and draw a picture of it.
• Quiz and time yourself. See how many you get in a certain amount of time.
• Have someone quiz you.
• Be the teacher and teach the words to someone.
• Challenge someone to see who can guess the most or the fastest.
• See if you can make sentences by putting flashcards together.
• Play charades with someone.
• Play "Spanictionary" – one person reads a flashcard, then draws it while the
other person tries to guess before a timer goes off.
• Play Hangman by laying out a group of new flashcards. Have someone
choose a word and write blanks for each letter of the word. You guess the
letters and see if you can beat the hangman.
• Play ¿Cuál falta? (What’s Missing?)
• Play Memory or Big Memory.
• Play Bingo
• Play Grab the Vocab
• Play Matamoscas (Swat the Flies)

The games suggested here can be found on the Spanish for You! website,
www.spanish-for-you.net, Curriculum Activities page.

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