Cultura
Gramática: palabras sustantivadas
El movimiento nuyorriqueño
Día de muertos
Vocabulario
100
Verdadero / Falso
Only people who have lived in two places can be bicultural
False
100
A noun derived from the verb to teach
teacher
100
Name of the two cultures or places that lent their names to this artistic movement in an effort to preserve the culture of the island in the mainland.
Puerto Rico and New York
100
What day/s of the year is the Dia de Muertos Holiday celebrated?
November 1 & 2
100
This English word is a cognate of our vocabulary word _______________, which means a re-creation of a real-world situation.
simulation
200
Verdadero / Falso
When you speak two languages proficiently, you are considered bilingual.
Verdadero
200
A noun derived from the adjective kind
kindness
200
Artist Rafael Tufiño and author Esmeralda Santiago are two examples of influencers of these two major components of Nuyorican culture
Art and Literature
200
Typical Food that is placed on the altar for the souls of the deceased to be nourished.
Pan de muerto
(bread of the dead)
200
This English word is a cognate of our vocabulary word _______________, which means the larger group in an organized community.
society
300
Verdadero / Falso
When you speak two languages fluently, you are bicultural.
Falso
300
A different noun derived from the noun violin
violinist
300
Style of dance born in New York that includes influence from Cuban Guaracha, Cha Cha Cha and Mambo
Salsa
300
Objects used on the altar to guide the deceased home to visit family members
Candles
300
The vocabulary word travesía comes from the Latin "transversus", closely related to transverse.
Travesía can be translated to this word:
1. travesty
2. angles
3. journey
joourney
400
Being in the Spanish Immersion Program at Moravian teaches students to be bicultural
Verdadero
400
A noun derived from the adjective able
ability
400
Number of Stripes on the Puerto Rican Flag
Five
400
Traditional flower used to decorate the altar on Día de muertos.
Cempasúchil
(marigold)
400
anonimato most closely means:
a) anonymous
b) a namesake
c) inanimate
anonymous
500
Term that refers to a shared ideology by a group of people
Collective Identity
(Identidad Colectiva)
500
A noun derived from the adjective nervous
nervousness
500
Largely considered one of the founders of the graphic artistic Puerto Rican movement both on the island in NYC.
Rafael Trufiño
500
Group celebrated each of the 2 days of Dia de muertos
Day 1- Nov. 1 : Children
Day 2- Nov. 2 : Adults
500
One of these words means "omen" or "a sign of something that will happen in the future"
a) sorteo (draw)
b) augurio (augury)
c) clarividente (clairvoyant)
d) proveniente (coming from)
augurio
(augury)