Diseñando Una Casa

Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the second Action Project in my Spanish class. So far in this winter term, we have been going over lots of vocabulary for houses such as furniture, rooms, and other pieces of a house. We have also looked at direct and indirect object pronouns as well as the present progressive tense for writing sentences. We have continued to study "ar", "er", and "ir" verbs. For this Action Project, we are creating a floor plan for a house. This house has to have 5 rooms: a bedroom, bathroom, dining room, kitchen, and living room. I also added an office area in my house. For each of these rooms, we could add furniture that would be labeled in Spanish. The whole project requires at least 15 vocabulary words for the furniture. With all of this, we have been asked to write sentences using the "ar", "er", and "ir" verbs about what we do in each room and make use of the present progressive tense and direct and indirect object pronouns. I hope you enjoy looking at my house design and reading the sentences in Spanish.

First Floorplan, GS, 2022

Spanish Floorplan, GS, 2022

"Ar", "Er", and "Ir" Verbs:
Bebo jugo de manzana y escribo en mi dormitorio.

Me lavo en el baño.

Yo leo en el estudio.

Yo trabajo en el estudio.
Yo como en la cocina.

Mis padres cocinan en la cocina
Mi familia ve la televisión en la sala de estar.
Jugamos juegos de mesa en el comedor.

Nosotros cenamos en el comedor.

Present Progressive Tense:
Mi padre está durmiendo en la sala.
Estoy lavándome el pelo.

Estoy limpiando la mesa.
Está trabajando en su papel en el estudio.
Estamos preparando la cena.

Estoy leyendo mi libro.

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns:
Leí el libro. Lo leí. (Direct)

Hablo con mis padres en la cocina. Les hablo en la cocina. (Indirect)

Mi padre invita a nosotros. Mi padre nos invita. (Direct)

Mi madre vende towels a ti. Mi madre te vende unas towels. (Indirect)

I hope you enjoyed reading my work in Spanish and looking at the floorplan I designed. I am interested in architecture as a career option so making a floorplan was pretty fun. After making my rough draft I chose to change where some of the furniture went in the rooms. Overall, I had fun with this Action Project and I think I did well with my Spanish. Originally I wanted to design the floorplan after my own house, but I chose otherwise because I did not want to put extra work on myself especially if it wasn't needed. Again, I hope you enjoyed reading this post and I hope to see you in the next one.

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