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Lesson Plan: How to Introduce Indirect Object Pronouns
After learning or being exposed to direct object pronouns, most students are soon exposed to indirect object pronouns. Their first difficulty is distinguishing the function of one from the other. This lesson gives step-by-step instructions to help students get it right from the beginning.
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Comparatives Part 4: The Absolute Superlative
If someone or something is so good, bad or exhibits any quality in the "-nth" degree such that no comparison would really be worth it or valid, you need the absolute superlative. This lesson tells how to form it, contrasts it with the other forms and gives examples.
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Lesson Plan: Direct Object Pronouns
For most students, direct object pronouns are their first introduction to object pronouns. They are often introduced by using the almost meaningless circumlocution: "how to avoid the repition of nouns" without naming them specifically. It isn't too much to teach "direct," "object" and "pronoun."
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Comparatives Part 2: Superlatives
Once you know how to describe and compare (equal or unequal things), you need to know how to say something is the best or worst, the most or least among other things. This article shows how to go from John is tall to Steve is taller than John, to Bob is the tallest of the three-- the superlative.
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Confusing Verb Groups: Saber vs. Conocer
These two verbs both translate into English as "to know." This suggests that English has at least two ways of using its own verb which result in two verbs in Spanish. This article explains the differences and offers easy to remember models to avoid confusion.
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Lesson Plans: Degrees of Politeness with "Deber," "Poder" and "Querer"
These three verbs, and these three alone, when used as helping verbs and depending on the tenses and moods used, convey no difference in meaning but a great difference in their tone as indicators of politeness in Spanish.
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Defective Verbs: Let's Talk About the Weather
Verbs about precipitation are usually "defective" -- find out why and how!
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Lesson Plans: Comparatives of Inequality, Part 2 on Comparatives
The grammatical and lexical tools of this lesson will enable students of Spanish to verbalize their observations about the world in ways that parallel what the mathematical symbols of > and < do for the world of numbers.
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Lesson Plans: Comparatives in Spanish, Part 1: Equality
There are three grades of comparison in Spanish: Equality, Inequality and Superlative. This is the first of three lesson plans is designed to help teachers with their lesson on this important aspect of the language.
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Fine Points About the Verb "Dejar"
If you have read the article about the difference between "salir" and "dejar" as stand-alone verbs, this should be your next stop. It continues -- and ends -- the story about the verb "dejar" by examining its meanings as a helping verb.
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