Rang Mháire (Mary's Class)

Announcements

"Irish Mythology and the Four Cycles" goes on for the next few weeks
Film "Black 47" is said to be available on Amazon Prime and will be in theaters starting this weekend

Last Time (October 8) (back to top)

Warmup

The small group and I did a noun warmup with the new noun tabs, using "an ____" and "leis an ____."

After that, I got out the time pogs that Will gave me and we practiced, practiced, practiced just saying times. When the mythology group arrived, we looped them into that for a few minutes.

Stuff

We took a quick second look at PI 9 at the forms of the days of the week that we learned before ("on Sunday," etc), then I had you look ahead to PI 44 to the basic forms of the nouns. Just like it says in PI 44, these forms are used in different contexts than the previous forms, and we'll be seeing some of each coming up.

We looked at the answers for page 2 of "Some present habitual tense practice."

We gave a couple quick listens to the audio file for a TEG exercise "Micheál ag caint" -- part of your homework is to translate the statements on the half-sheet I gave you so that next week we can go through the audio again and you'll be better prepared to figure out which ones are true and which ones are false.

Homework

Figure out all the clock times shown on TEG Bileog 6.1C to prep for a listening exercise
Translate statements on half-sheet "Micheál ag caint" (TEG Bileog 6.4C), also in preparation for a listening exercise
There are two more TEG-related items I gave you, a second whole sheet and then something on the back of the "Micheál ag caint" half-sheet, if you have time it wouldn't hurt to take a look at those and make sure you understand the Iris

Previous Class (October 1) (back to top)

Warmup

Tonight's warmup took up the entire time until the folks from the mythology class returned! So I don't know that it was technically a warmup, but that's how it was intended. I have a slew of new noun tabs taken from some of your worksheets and we practiced the mutation patterns for "ar an ______" and "an ________" on some of them.

Here are the sheets the nouns came from, if you want to prep for the next time these tabs come out:

"Classroom nouns" (from Intro)
"More fun with the singular definite article (an) and nouns"
"Mutations of vowels, s, and other consonants"
"An [ainmfhocal]" -- 'The [noun]' (Part One)"

We also talked a bit about signs to help you guess whether a noun is masculine or feminine.

Stuff

With about twenty minutes left in class, we went over the "Telling time -- the basics" sheet (from ages ago, for most of you -- remember to let me know if you need a copy). Then we worked through the first page of the worksheet "Some present habitual tense practice" from last time. If you didn't get a chance to do the whole sheet, you've got a reprieve.

Homework

"Some present habitual tense practice" if you haven't already finished it

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