Subject(s): Multi-Disciplinary, Language Arts, Other Grades(s): Junior High/High School

Title – Clothes Unit in Spanish
By – J.D. Meyer
Primary Subject – Language Arts
Grade Level – Spanish 2 – HS or College

Outline of Clothes Unit in Spanish:

1. Vocabulary
   1. Nouns (16)
   2. Verbs (12)
   3. Adjectives (12, 6 pair )
   4. Colors (15)

2. Bell Ringer Questions (2 pair)
3. Translate Sentences
   1. English Sentences (10)
   2. Spanish Sentences (10)

4. Answer Key
   1. From English to Spanish (10)
   2. From Spanish to English (10)

5. Footnote (3)

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I. Vocabulary:

1. Nouns:
   

   English/Spanish
   1.	pants	los pantalones
   2.	t-shirt	la camiseta
   3.	shoes	los zapatos
   4.	belt	el cinturon
   5.	shorts	los calzoncillos
   6.	sneakers	los tenis
   7.	socks	los calcetines
   8.	cap	la cachuca
   9.	shirt	la camisa
   10.	jeans	los jeans
   11.	jacket	la chaqueta
   12.	coat	el abrigo
   13.	dress	el vestido
   14.	skirt	la falda
   15.	blouse	la blusa
   16.	earring	el arete

2. Verbs:
   

   English/Spanish			Basic
   1.	wear	vestir
   2.	have	tener	X
   3.	buy	comprar
   4.	sell	vender
   5.	take off	tomar de
   6.	put on	ponerse
   7.	lose	perder
   8.	find	encontrar
   9.	like	gustar	X
   10.	love (a thing)	encantar	X
   11.	jacket	la chaqueta	X
   12.	want	querer

3. Adjectives:

   All adjectives – including the colors in the next section – are listed with the masculine “-o” ending, but they can end in the feminine “-a” ending too.

   English/Spanish
   1a. 1b.	loose tight	suelto apretado
   2a. 2b.	solid stripes	solido rayas
   3a. 3b.	new old	nuevo viejo
   4a. 4b.	cheap expensive	barato caro
   5a. 5b.	clean dirty	limpio sucio
   6a. 6b.	pretty ugly	bonito feo

4. Colors:
   

   English/Spanish
   1.	red	rojo
   2.	yellow	amarillo
   3.	blue	azul
   4.	orange	naranjado
   5.	green	verde
   6.	purple	morador
   7.	black	negro
   8.	white	blanco
   9.	brown	café
   10.	dark	oscuro
   11.	light	claro
   12.	pink	rosado
   13.	grey	gris
   14.	gold	oro
   15.	silver	plata

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II. Bell Ringers:

1a. What are you wearing today? 1b. Que traes puesto hoy? 2a. What is the student on your left (right) wearing? 2b. Que trae puesto el estudiante esta a tu izquierda (derecha)?

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III. Translate Sentences:

1. Translate these English Sentences into Spanish:.
   

   1. I want to buy a jacket. 2. Joe likes his old blue jeans. 3. Where is my dark purple T-shirt? 4. Put on your coat. It’s cold! 5. Tomorrow will be warm. Make sure you have some clean shorts. 6. I am wearing………..(Answers will vary.) 7. Gabriella has a pretty skirt today. 8. Mr. Meyer loves his Chinese yin-yang earring. 9. I have cat hair on my black slacks. 10. A Tyler ISD teacher handbook (librito) tells its male employees to wear socks.

2. Translate these Spanish Sentences into English:

   
   

   1. Donde estan mis botas viejas? 2. Compro los calecetines negros otra vez. 3. Estos zapatos estan sucios. 4. Citi Trends vende la ropa moderna para la gente joven. 5. Quiero lavar mis pantalones oscuros del trabajo. 6. Estoy vestiendo jeans azules, abrigo café claro, una camisa con rayas de azul y cafe, y tenis blancos y negro con rayas azules. 7. Esta jovencita esta vestiendo ropa azul claro por deportes. 8. Me gusta vestir camisetas con mucho colores debajo de unas camisa solidas por trabajo. 9. Tomas de tu cachuca en la escuela; vistes un cinturon con los jeans mas sueltos. 10. Nuestros directores nos dicen no visten la ropa por las pandilleros (gangsters).

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IV. Answer Key for Spanish Unit on Clothes Translation Sentences:

1. To Spanish from English:
   

   1. Quiero comprar un chaquete. 2. Joe le gusta su jeans azul y viejo. 3. Donde esta mi camiseta morador oscura? 4. Se pone tu abrigo. Tiene frio! 5. Manana sera caluroso. Estas seguro que tienes unos calzoncillos limpios. 6. Estoy vestiendo… 7. Hoy Gabriella tiene una falda bonita. 8. Mr. Meyer le encanta su arête chino yin-yang. 9. Tengo pelo de los gatos en mis pantalones negras. 10. Una librito de Tyler ISD le dicen sus empleados hombres vestir las calcetinas.

2. To English from Spanish:
   

   1. Where are my old boots? 2. I bought some black socks again. 3. Those shoes are dirty. 4. Citi Trends sells modern clothes for young people. 5. I want to wash my dark slacks for work. 6. I am wearing blue jeans, a light brown (tan/alazan) coat, a shirt with blue and brown stripes, and white and black shoes with blue stripes. 7. That young lady/woman is wearing light blue clothes for sports. 8. I like to wear T-shirts of many colors underneath my solid (colored) shirts for work. 9. Take off your cap in the school; wear a belt with those too loose jeans. 10. Our principals tell us not to wear clothing for gangsters.

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V. Footnote:

• Opposites frequently turn-up in vocabulary, and this clothes unit is no exception. The adjectives section seems to show the most opposite pairs of words, such as “new/old,” “pretty/ugly,” etc. When we deal with pairs of opposites, we learn two words simultaneously.
• A few of the basic verbs, as well as the colors, would be taught much earlier.
• Sketches of people wearing each of the articles of clothing would be one way to deal with the clothes/nouns section.

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