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11 thoughts on “The St. Patty’s Day Pinch”
This shows real simplicity in a script, a requirement. Look at the structures and notice how each structure is presented, in order, through each location. This is a great script because it is simple.
I can’t wait to use this this week–it’s so perfectly simple, and exactly what will be on my student’s minds!
In Spanish-to pinch-“apretar”? Doesn’t sound right but one of my heritage speakers uses it.
pellizcar = to pinch (between thumb and finger)
apretar = to squeeze
Thanks, Jody! I was counting on you…
I’ve used apretar for squeeze-thanks for the confirmation.
I kind of want to use apretar because I see and hear that verb so much more than pellizcar..but I guess I should use the most accurate one.
Ha, I used to use PICAR, until I realized that was just what bugs and spicy foods do. PELLIZCAR is my go-to verb now, but honestly, I usually only get a rep or two or three out of it because it is often hurried so we can get to the climax of it all. The “important” structures come before.
I tried this story yesterday (no school today because girls state basketball, first time in school history) and it didn’t go too far, because of other stuff on students’ minds and getting out half day. But we decided we’d go back to it on Monday and talk about it in the past (we were talking about it in the future with “va a …” to be temporally correct).
I would love to get some other readings from people to read next week with my students. I recommend introducing via TPR a couple new body parts with students, in case like me you do the regulars at the beginning of the term and then forget to introduce new stuff like knee and ankle and shoulder and those “in between” body parts.
Yes, I had a similar reaction. Pellizco, pellizca, pellizcó, etc. are hard to say. I don’t like to teach to the holidays, so decided doing this story wasn’t that important. You’re right. Find a better story for apretar. It’s a good verb–great adjective. I can imagine a good story containing the phrase: it was too tight.
Hmmmmm….on Monday we are doing a story about a student who gets mistaken for a famous matador and gets yanked into the Plaza de la Maestranza in Sevilla to face the bulls in place of the missing real matador….I imagine that his traje de luces may be a bit too tight. I was HYSTERICAL today. This is the first time that I have taught a bullfighting unit since the arrival of the Internet to the classroom. I found fantastic images to be projected onto our state of the art SmartBoards…and quickly realized that any shots of matadors had better be from the back, from the waist up or from a distance if I am going to be able to use them in the classroom lol!!!
with love,
Laurie
This is a great plot! Nothing better than tight matador pants.
There is a grueling photo from a year or so ago, when a bullfighters got stuck by the bull. You may choose not to show them to students (kind of gorry) but it shows the bull’s horn going up through the guys throat and out his mouth!! Mess with the bull, you get the horns. I hate to sound crude, but…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280469/Spanish-bullfighter-gored-Matador-Julio-Aparicio-narrowly-escapes-death.html
And another interesting story re bullfighting:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067261/Blinded-bullfighter-vows-return-ring-public-appearance-horrific-goring.html
A reading in Spanish for y’all, in case you tried this story.
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El Día de San Patricio
Es el Día de San Patricio. No es el Día de San Valentín. Es marzo, no es febrero. El Día de San Patricio es en marzo.
Matthew lleva un libro. Porque es el Día de San Patricio, Matthew lleva un libro verde. Matthew siempre lleva verde el Día de San Patricio. Hoy, Matthew lleva un libro verde. No lo lleva en la cabeza. Lo lleva en el brazo izquierdo.
Jenna mira a Matthew. Jenna no puede ver el libro. Jenna no lo puede ver porque solo mira el ombligo de Matthew. No mira el brazo izquierdo de Matthew. Así que Jenna piensa que Matthew no lleva verde. Es un problema para Matthew que Jenna no puede ver el libro verde en su brazo.
Jenna le dice, “Tú no llevas verde hoy. ¡Es el Día de San Patricio!” Jenna pellizca a Matthew. Lo pellizca en la nariz. Lo pellizca con los dedos.