200 Most Common Words in Spanish (In Order)

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

-Lily Tomlin

PLEASE COMPLETE BEFORE CLASS BEGINS

NAME:

DATE:

ALL THE WORDS I KNOW IN SPANISH:

(or previous exposure to Spanish)

Leave this sheet on the front of your packet when you have finished filling it out and turn to page 3. See how many of the words on the following page you can guess the meaning of.

Last Day Freewrite

Write a 100 word story using any of the vocabulary you have learned. Relax. Breathe. Focus only on the number of words you can get to come out naturally.

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YOU ALREADY KNOW SPANISH!

COGNATES (WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE ENGLISH)

Can you guess the meanings of these words?

1. acción,
2. acepta la invitación
3. actividad
4. actor

1. admirador

1. alergias

1. alérgica

1. ángel

1. animal

1. animalito

1. artista
2. atención

1. atlético

1. atractivo

1. autor

1. banco

1. bebé (como un bebé)

1. búfalo

1. café
2. capitalismo

1. chino

1. chocolate

1. círculo

1. clasificados

1. colección
2. color

1. comparado con

1. común
2. comunismo

1. comunicaban
2. condición

1. contento
2. cuestión
3. cultura

1. decide
2. decisión
3. dentista
4. día

1. diferente

1. difícil de impresionar

1. director
2. doctor
3. economista

1. electrónico

1. elefante

1. elegante

1. emperador

1. enorme

1. ensalada

1. entra

1. era difícil concentrarse

1. es un secreto

1. especial
2. especialista

1. espía

1. esposa / esposo

1. Euros

1. exactamente

1. experto

1. falso

1. familia

1. famoso
2. favor
3. figura

1. flores

1. fruta
2. función

1. generosa

1. gorila

1. hamburguesa

1. hotel

1. idea

1. ilegal

1. importante / importantísimo

1. Increíble

1. inspiró

1. inteligente

1. interesante
2. interior

1. intérprete

1. Japón

1. león
2. lista

1. médico

1. millón de dólares

1. millonario

1. misión secreta

1. mosquito necesidad

1. no tenía ningún admirador

1. no usaba desodorante

1. normal
2. novelista
3. occasion
4. oportunidad
5. optimismo

1. parquet

1. perfecta

1. pero

1. pizza

1. plástico

1. popular
2. posibilidad
3. posición,

1. prepara

1. problema

1. profesor

1. rapidísimo

1. rápido

1. rata

1. ratón

1. reaccionó

1. realidad

1. realmente
2. relación

1. responde

1. restaurante (americano, italiano, francés, mexicano)

1. reunión familiar

1. románticamente / romántico / romance

1. se le ocurrió

1. serpiente situación sociedad socialismo

1. sopa

1. suficiente

1. teléfono celular

1. tigre

1. trillón
2. turista
3. turismo

1. vacación

1. visita

TURN THE PAGE TO COVER OF YOUR PACKET WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED.

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FLUENCY FAST BEGINNING SPANISH (curriculum 4)

by Blaine Ray & Karen Rowan

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to use the target vocabulary, as well as basic introductory vocabulary.

2. Participants will be able to recognize and use vocabulary in the present tense

3. Participants will be able to write 100 words in 10-15 minutes of uninterrupted writing time

4. Students will be able to read and understand MORE in the target language than they were able to when they arrived.

Methods:

Each day participants will be presented with vocabulary and advanced grammatical structures from the thematic unit. Techniques used include TPR (Total Physical Response), TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling), songs, long-term memory techniques, acting, storytelling, reading, translation and conversation.

Outcomes:

Outcomes vary by student depending on previous exposure to the language or other languages. Our first goal is that each student leaves the class knowing more Spanish that when he or she arrived. Our second goal is that once the myth has been dispelled that learning a language is difficult, that the student go on to continue learning the language.
What YOU must know about acquiring a language through TPRS in order to be successful:

1. There is no such thing as a person who isn’t good at learning languages.

1. Everything you learned in school about how to learn languages was wrong. You were forcing your brain to function in a way it was never designed to. That was not the fault of your brain. (This does not mean everything you were taught was wrong…. You did not learn what your teacher intended to teach.)

1. The trick to acquiring another language is ridiculously simple:

You must hear a lot of the language and you must completely, entirely, totally, 100% understand what is being said. In fact…. if you’re doing it right… it feels effortless. It feels involuntary.

1. You must be relaxed and not feel pressured to speak or perform. There’s no need to try to repeat what you hear. Just concentrate on trying to understand. Stop me and ask for translation or to slow down.

1. Turn off the part of your brain that wants to turn this into work…. wants to memorize… wants to study… wants to analyze…. wants to cram information into the short term memory instead of the long-term memory….

1. To do that you must:

A. Have fun.

B. Listen. Be aware of when your attention wanders and think of ways that you can contribute details to the story.

C. Stop and signal me whenever you don’t understand even one word.

D. Laugh. It releases endorphins that contribute to long term retention. Plus… it’s supposed to be funny.

G. Take breaks and move around. A little physical movement makes the brain dump feel-good chemicals into the body that also increase long-term memory.

H. Read, read and re-read. As you read you’ll understand more and more. Use the vocab list, but don’t look everything up in a dictionary.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Good words ranked between 200-300: familia, realidad, pedir (to ask for) recibir (to receive)importante, leer (to read), calle (street), libro (book), amigo, oír (to hear), gracias, verdad (true / truth), señor, cuestión, difícil, normal

HIGHEST FREQUENCY SPANISH WORDS AND WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE ENGLISH (COGNATES)

EL PRESENTE

PRESENT TENSE

Present progressive

EL PASADO

EL PRETÉRITO

(una vez o tiempo definido)

*Some irregular ellos forms end in –jeron: trajeron, dijeron

The preterite is also used for actions that occurred over a defined period of time.

Por lo tanto comió dos empanadas más y regresó a su oficina y no hizo nada por quinientos veintitrés días.

Therefore, he ate two more turnovers and returned to his office and didn’t do anything else for 523 days.

EL IMPERFECTO

(acción continua por un tiempo indefinido)

EL IMPERFECTO IRREGULAR

The imperfect is used to describe ongoing actions, non-events and what was happening in the story (not what happened).

There was a man who used to call himself Ray.

Non-event:Había un hombre que se llamaba Raimundo.

Ray was losing a lot of money paying this cook.

On-going action: Raimundo perdía mucho dinero pagándole...

LOS VERBOS (él / ella / Ud.)

COUNTING IN SPANISH

0 cero

1 uno60 sesenta

2 dos70 setenta

3 tres80 ochenta

4 cuatro90 noventa

5 cinco100 cien

6 seis100 cien (ciento)

7 siete105 ciento cinco

8 ocho113 ciento trece

9 nueve117 ciento diecisiete

10 diez122 ciento veintidós

11 once134 ciento treinta y cuatro

12 doce148 ciento cuarenta y ocho

13 trece160 ciento sesenta

14 catorce200 doscientos

15 quince250 doscientos cincuenta

16 dieciséis277 doscientos setenta y siete

17 diecisiete300 trescientos

18 dieciocho400 cuatrocientos

19 diecinueve500 quinientos

20 veinte600 seiscientos

21 veinte y uno (veintiuno)700 setecientos

22 veinte y dos (veintidós) 800 ochocientos

23 veinte y trés (veintitrés) 900 novecientos

24 veinte y cuatro (veinticuatro)1000 mil

25 veinte y cinco (veinticinco)1.004 mil cuatro

26 veinte y séis (veintiséis)1.015 mil quince

27 veinte y siete (veintisiete) 1.031 mil treinta y uno

28 veinte y ocho (veintiocho)1.492 mil

29 veinte y nueve (veintinueve)1.861 mil ochocientos sesenta y ocho

30 treinta2.000 dos mil

31 treinta y uno 10.000 diez mil

32 treinta y dos40.139 cuarenta mil ciento treinta y nueve

33 treinta y tres 100.000 cien mil

34 treinta y cuatro785.026 siete cientos ochenta y cinco mil veintiséis

35 treinta y cinco1.000.000 un millón

36 treinta y seis50.000.000 cincuenta millones

40 cuarenta

50 cincuenta

SPANISH ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Alphabet: a b c ch d e f g h i j k l m n ñ o p q r s t u v w x y z

Pronunciation:

VowelsConsonants

A – fatherSimilar to English with the following exceptions:

E- eightB, V – similar sounds

I- ski Ch – same as in English

O – open D – between two vowels or at the end of a word is like a “th”

U – lute G – followed by “a,” “o,” “u,” or a consonant is like the “g” in the

Y – eEnglish word “green”;

H – always silent in Spanish

J – heavily aspirated “h”

K – found only in foreign words, pronounced as in English

Ll – like the English “y” in yes

Ñ – like the ny sound as in canyon or the ni sound as in onion

R – like the sound of the double “d” in ladder or the double “t” in butter; rolled at the beginning of a word

Rr – rolled like the old “Ruffles have ridges” commercial

Z – pronounced like the letter “s”

BEGINNING SPANISH USEFUL PHRASES

¿Cómo estás? (familiar)How are you?

¿Cómo está? (formal)How are you?

Estoy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú? (familiar)I am well, thank you. And you?

Estoy bien, gracias. ¿Y usted? (formal)I am well, thank you. And you?

¿Adónde vas? (familiar) Where are you going?

¿Adónde va? (formal)Where are you going?

(Yo) Me voy a…..I am going….

¿Qué hora es?What time is it? (What hour is it?)

Es la una (y…..)It is one…… (singular)

Son las dos (Son las tres. Son las cuatro)It’s 2:00.... (plural)

¿Cómo te llamas? (familiar)What is your name? (What do you call yourself?)

¿Cómo se llama? (formal)What is your name? (What do you call yourself?)

(Yo) Me llamo…..My name is…. (I call myself)

¿Cómo se llama él?What is his name? (What does he call himself?)

¿Cómo se llama ella?What is her name? (What does she call herself?)

¿De qué color es….?What color is…?

¿Cuántos años tienes? (familiar)How old are you? (How many years do you have?)

¿Cuántos años tiene? (formal)How old are you?

Tengo.... años.I am…years old.(I have….years.)

Independent Reading Strategy

When I come to a word I don’t know… I think about the story

I look at the context

I say the word

I see if there is anything I know in the word

I put in a “blank” and attempt to guess the meaning

……...And if I still can’t figure it out… I skip it!

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