Matthew spent the session writing in Spanish about the history of Argentina's economy.

I helped him when he asked questions. His requests included topics such as: a) how to structure the information (we discussed circumlocution in writing), b) whether to use the preterite or imperfect, and c) common and thematic vocabulary.

Matthew's paragraph is coming along well.

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Today we started working on the essay for the final exam. He started writing about street food in Cuba.

Matthew read in Spanish about 5 ways that Argentinian people deal with moments of crisis.

We looked at Argentinian pesos online. We learned about bartering clubs and saving in foreign currency.

We pointed out verbs that he studied for his recent verb test and how they were used in our article. Matthew led the charge on translating about 8 sentences.

Bella was to read and write about the history of the Argentine economy.

She was absent.

Bella reviewed vocabulary. We then read a brief history of economic crises in Argentina together.

Matthew and I reviewed the past participle in Spanish.

We then reviewed the future tense including the regulars and irregulars.

All of the parts of the class up to this point were conducted in Spanish.

We then read an article that covers in broad strokes the history of Argentina's economy.

Today we reviewed the irregular verbs that were learned in the previous class.

Bella reviewed for and took her essential verbs test.

She did not miss a single question.

These verbs are critical for communication in Spanish. Bella should be diligent about remembering them.

We continued our conversation from last session about Preterite and Imperfect irregulars.

Matthew was then encouraged to find engaging content via a Spanish search engine. He pursued two fantastic ideas. First, he researched how to put the subtitles for his YouTube videos in Spanish. We watched a portion of a golf tutorial in Spanish. We stopped and discussed key vocabulary and interesting sentences.

Then, he searched for interviews with golfers in Spanish. We found an interview of a native Spanish speaker who has just won the Mexican Open. Matthew identified the accent as one of Spanish nationality. He made comments about key words during the interview.

The interview was riddled with the past participle. We used this interview as an opportunity to review this conjugation.