1. 1. The “Slide Show” Tab 2. Click “From Beginning” 3. Click for each slide to change. 4. Do not rush! Some material takes time. Take your time and divide up the work as you need.

2. Concepto: expresar las nacionalidades expresar las nacionalidades

3. What you will find in this presentation: 1. Introduction to Nationalities and People 2. How to make nationalities feminine. 3. How to make nationalities plural. 4. Practice Exercises

4. 1. Nationalities are a description of a person’s origin or heritage. Adjectives describe nouns (generally speaking: people, places and things). When we learned about adjectives, we talked about how adjectives must agree in gender and number in Spanish. For example, if the noun is feminine, the adjective describing that noun must be feminine also. For example, if the noun is plural, the adjective describing that noun must be plural also. We learned particular rules how to make adjectives agree in gender and in number. Example: “ o ” must change to an “ a ” when the word is feminine. Example: “ e ” does not change when a word is feminine. Example: Consonants does not change when a word is feminine. Example: If a word ends in a vowel, add “ s ” to make it plural. Example: If a word ends a consonant, add “ es ” to make it plural.

5. 1. Nationalities are a description of a person’s origin or heritage. All of those rules were taught to you in Spanish 7. However, nationalities are adjectives that generally describe people or a group of people. Yes, technically an object can have an origin; however, the main purpose of nationalities is to describe people. When we use adjectives that describe people or groups of people. There are a few differences when it comes to making the adjective (i.e. nationality) feminine or plural. Remember that as you study this chapter of Unit 9 to remember that these adjectives are special unlike words like: grande (big)-This word can describe a person, place or thing.

6. 1. The number one thing that most people know about Spanish is that if an adjective ends in “ o ”, it is generally masculine. When it comes to a nationality that ends in “ o ”, to make it feminine, you simply change the “ o ” to an “ a ”. Example: Juan es mexicano. Maria es mexicana. Note: The word “Mexican” is “ mexicano”, which is the masculine and general form. Since Maria is a woman, you must change “ mexicano” to “ mexicana”.

7. 1. Like regular adjectives, if a nationality ends in “e”, you simply do not change it, to make it feminine. Example: Juan es costarricense. Maria es costarricense. Note: The word “Costa Rican” is “ costarricense”, which is the masculine, feminine and general form. Even though Maria is a woman, you do not change “ costarricense”.

8. 1. Nationalities that end in consonants are the biggest change to the rules. This rule is quite different than making a regular adjective feminine. If a nationality ends in a consonant, you must attach an “ a ” to the nationality to make it feminine. Example: Juan es español. Maria es española. Note: The word “Spanish” is “ español”, which is the masculine and general form. Since Maria is a woman, you must change “ español” to “ española”. Note: You are adding a vowel to the end of this word; moreover, you are adding another syllable to the word, which has a rule of its own.

9. 1. Nationalities that end in consonants are the biggest change to the rules. This rule is quite different than making a regular adjective feminine. If a nationality ends in a consonant, you must attach an “ a ” to the nationality to make it feminine. Note: If that nationality contains an accent mark, you must drop the accent mark, because you added another syllable (you changed the stress). Example: Juan es irlandés. Maria es irlandesa. Reference: The word “Irish” is “ irlandés “. When a Spanish word has stress on it that is not the second to last vowel of the word, it receives an accent mark. When you added the “a”, you put the stress on the second to last vowel, which means you don’t need an accent mark.

10. 1. The number one thing that most people forget about in Spanish is that if an adjectives become plural and almost always follow the noun. The general rules to make an adjective plural still apply with nationalities. If a nationality ends in a vowel, add “ s ” to make it plural. If a nationality ends in a consonant, add “ es ” to make it plural. The additional rule is the same accent mark rule used before with feminizing adjectives. Example: irlandés (Irish) Again, we are adding an extra syllable to the word (es), so we must drop the accent mark. Example: Juan y Maria son irlandeses. Note: We added “ es ”, because “ irlandés” ends in a consonant.  Accent mark was dropped.

11. Before working on the assessment to see your progress at this point, make sure to complete the question before clicking to see the answer. Before working on the assessment to see your progress at this point, make sure to complete the question before clicking to see the answer. 1. The first click will show all the problems. 1. The first click will show all the problems. 2. Write your answers on a piece of paper LARGE and NEATLY 2. Write your answers on a piece of paper LARGE and NEATLY 3. Then click for each individual answer. 3. Then click for each individual answer. 4. Correct your work. DO NOT ERASE, because you need to see where your mistake is. 4. Correct your work. DO NOT ERASE, because you need to see where your mistake is. 5. Take each piece of the number at a time, as it takes a step by step process to build large numbers. 5. Take each piece of the number at a time, as it takes a step by step process to build large numbers.

12. 1. Sarah is Argentine. 2. Mary is Dutch. 3. John and Sarah are Argentine. 4. Miguel is Spanish. 5. Sofia is Spanish. 6. Miguel and Sofia are Spanish. 7. George is Dutch Sarah es argentina. John y Sarah son argentinos. Miguel y Sofia son españoles. Maria es holandesa. Miguel es español. Sofia es española. George es holandés.

13. 1. Check over your work. 1. Check over your work. 2. If you had any errors, make sure to be aware of what they were. 2. If you had any errors, make sure to be aware of what they were. If they were common errors, then make sure you aware of that error before the exam. If they were common errors, then make sure you aware of that error before the exam. 3. If you had different kinds of errors, and are having difficulties with how to express nationalties; this is the point when you need to come into office hours for help on resolving your issues with the content. That’s what I am here to assist you with. 3. If you had different kinds of errors, and are having difficulties with how to express nationalties; this is the point when you need to come into office hours for help on resolving your issues with the content. That’s what I am here to assist you with. 4. If your errors are minor and consistent, make sure to fix those errors. 4. If your errors are minor and consistent, make sure to fix those errors.