1. Español 1 El 15 de octubre de 2013
Entrada: Verbos de dibujos (Entrance: Verbs from drawings)
Write the date and title, and log the entry in your table of contents.
Write the Spanish vocabulary word/phrase represented by each picture If it is a phrase, circle the first word (the verb).

2. Los infinitivos (Infinitives)
Verbs
Verbs are words that are used to name actions.
Verbs have different forms depending on who is doing the action (subject) or when the action is occurring (tense).
I walk, she walks, we walked, etc.
Infinitives
The most basic form of a verb is called the infinitive.
In English, an infinitive begins with TO.
to talk, to run, to write
In Spanish, an infinitive ends with –AR, –ER, or –IR.
hablar, correr, escribir

3. Los infinitivos (Infinitives)
Using the verbs that you wrote for each picture in the Entrada, make a chart showing examples of the 3 types of infinitives (-ar, -er, and –ir). Then use your vocabulary notes to add more infinitives to your chart. AR ER IR

4. Los sujetos (Subjects)
The subject of a sentence tells who or what is doing the action.
People’s names are often used as the subject:
Gregory listens to music.
Ana sings and dances.
You also use subject pronouns to tell who is doing an action. Subject pronouns replace people’s names.
The English subject pronouns are:
Singular
Plural
1st person I we
2nd person
you
(you all, y’all, you guys)
3rd person
he, she, it
they

5. Los subjetos (Subjects)
The Spanish subject pronouns are:
Singular
Plural
1st person yo
nosotros, nosotras
2nd person tú
(familiar)
usted / Ud.
(formal)
vosotros, vosotras
(familiar, used in Spain & in literature)
ustedes / Uds.
(used everywhere)
3rd person
él, ella
ellos, ellas

6. Los subjetos (Subjects)
Different forms of “you”
Use tú with family, friends, people your age or younger, and anyone you call by his/her first name.
Use usted with adults you address with a title, such as señor, señora, profesor(a), etc. Usted is usually written as Ud.
In Spain, use vosotros(as) when speaking to two or more people who you call tú individually: tú + tú = vosotros(as). Use ustedes when talking to two or more people you call usted individually.
Everywhere else, use ustedes when speaking to two or more people, regardless of age. Ustedes is usually written as Uds.

7. Los subjetos (Subjects)
Groups
If a group is made up of males only or of both males and females together, use the masculine forms (nosotros, vosotros, ellos).
If a group is all females, use the feminine forms (nosotras, vosotras, ellas).
You can combine a subject pronoun and a name to form a subject:
Alejandro y yo = nosotros
Carlos y ella = ellos
Pepe y tú = ustedes
Lola y ella = ellas