I wonder if we will ever see the full quorum of 35 again. The attendance these days is mostly 25-28. I myself sometimes wish the teacher would increase the class duration to 3 hours instead of the normal 2 hours and wrap up the program. :-(
Okay, so the first half was spent in revising things learnt in the past class. The class was divided into groups of 4 and each group asked to describe a personality of its choice to the rest of the class so that they could guess who was being described. I was part of a group where the rest of the members were college girls. We zeroed in on poor Leonardo Da Vinci. A lively discussion ensued on whether he was an Italiano or a Frances. One of the girls said he was French. I was of the opinion that he was Italian. Hell, it has been more than 2 decades since I read about him and his art. But wasn't the plot of the Da Vinci Code set in Vatican? Finally, we consulted the teacher, who, after a second's contemplation, gave the verdict that he was an Italiano. The next hurdle was the word 'Pintor'. Does it mean someone who might use Asian Paints colors to paint the walls or someone who draws paintings which rarely make sense to mere mortals? 'Both' the teacher assured us. I am doubtful about that but for the moment decided not to pursue it further.
So we wrote our 4 lines about him and his painting of a mysterious smiling lady. The class duly guessed it to be the Monalisa and by association the name of our famous personality. We did the same for the rest of the groups. One group had chosen Enrique Iglesias (doesn't Iglesia mean Church in Spanish?) which none of us could guess.
Then we read and made sense of a passage where a person introduces his friends to another. The teacher told us that the exam to be held in first or second week of December would be worth 20 marks and we would be asked to describe a photo. So need to brush up on the vocabulary. Hell,I hope the use of a dictionary is not allowed. I don't have one and don't intend to purchase it anytime soon.
In the second half, we learnt the masculine/feminine and singular/plural form of this, that, that (far distance). Till now, we had done 1 to 20 numbers. Now I know (or think I know!) 21 to 100.
Hmmm.....what is a zero called in Spanish though? Hope I don't find that out when the result of the exam is handed over ;-)
Okay, so the first half was spent in revising things learnt in the past class. The class was divided into groups of 4 and each group asked to describe a personality of its choice to the rest of the class so that they could guess who was being described. I was part of a group where the rest of the members were college girls. We zeroed in on poor Leonardo Da Vinci. A lively discussion ensued on whether he was an Italiano or a Frances. One of the girls said he was French. I was of the opinion that he was Italian. Hell, it has been more than 2 decades since I read about him and his art. But wasn't the plot of the Da Vinci Code set in Vatican? Finally, we consulted the teacher, who, after a second's contemplation, gave the verdict that he was an Italiano. The next hurdle was the word 'Pintor'. Does it mean someone who might use Asian Paints colors to paint the walls or someone who draws paintings which rarely make sense to mere mortals? 'Both' the teacher assured us. I am doubtful about that but for the moment decided not to pursue it further.
So we wrote our 4 lines about him and his painting of a mysterious smiling lady. The class duly guessed it to be the Monalisa and by association the name of our famous personality. We did the same for the rest of the groups. One group had chosen Enrique Iglesias (doesn't Iglesia mean Church in Spanish?) which none of us could guess.
Then we read and made sense of a passage where a person introduces his friends to another. The teacher told us that the exam to be held in first or second week of December would be worth 20 marks and we would be asked to describe a photo. So need to brush up on the vocabulary. Hell,I hope the use of a dictionary is not allowed. I don't have one and don't intend to purchase it anytime soon.
In the second half, we learnt the masculine/feminine and singular/plural form of this, that, that (far distance). Till now, we had done 1 to 20 numbers. Now I know (or think I know!) 21 to 100.
Hmmm.....what is a zero called in Spanish though? Hope I don't find that out when the result of the exam is handed over ;-)
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