Jessie Worger

10/23/2014

Indefinite and Definite Article Activity for Ms. Lakey

Objective: I can say articles in Spanish
Level: Novice-low
Time: 15 minutes

1. Hoy en clase, vamos a hablar sobre la diferencia de definite articles y indefinite

articles
a. Who knows what a definite article means in English?
b. What is an example?
c. The cat, the cats
d. Who knows what an indefinite article is in English?
e. Give an example
f. A dog or Some dogs
g. Now, what is the difference between the dogs, and some dogs?
h. Give me the chocolate chip cookie.
Give me a cookie, please.
2. Ahora, Now necestitar usar este en espanol.
a. Como se dice the en espaol? Como se dice the plural en espaol?
b. Que es la forma femenina de el y los?
c. Ahora, como se dice a en Espanol?
Como se dice some en Esplanol?
d. Ahora, que es la forma femenina de un y unos?
1. The difference between definite articles and indefinite articles can be observed in
the following two sentences:
un libro
one book, a book
una pluma
one pen, a pen
una manzana
one apple, an apple

I am going to say a word like chicos and they have to write on their whiteboard
the article

Get in partners, one person will have the articles while the other has nouns and the
and they have to match them next to each other

One partner has a list of nouns with the articles and the other another list and they
take turns saying a noun and the person has to write it on the board