Día 01

Question 1

1. ¿A que te dedicas?

2. Soy abogado

Answer 1

1. What is your profession? ie job

2. I am a lawyer

Question 2

1. The thing has happened but it hasn´t finished yet ie still proximate
2. haber + past participle

Answer 2

1. When use preterito perfecto?

2. How form it?

Question 3

1. Ya is has just done it, todavía haven´t done it yet

2. For emphasis

Answer 3

1. What difference between ya and todavía?

2. when use ya?

Question 4

1. Ya caigo!

2. Ya mismo!

Answer 4

1. I get it! ie I now understand

2. Right away! as in I´ll do it right this minute

Question 5

1. ¿Has bebido EL agua?

2. Si, LA he bebido

Answer 5

1. Have you drunk the water?

2. Yes, I have drunk it

Question 6

1. cos´ is a strong a at the start of the word

2. arma, alma, hambre, aguila

Answer 6

1. Why is it EL agua (even though agua is feminine)?

2 Name 4 other similar words

Question 7

1. Because the are of greek origin

2. el problema, tema, sistema, mapa, día, planeta

Answer 7

1. Why are certain nouns ending in ma masculine?

2. Name 6 examples

Question 8

1. There is none

2. la mano, la foto, la moto

Answer 8

1. what is the rule re feminine nouns ending in o?

2. Name 3 examples

Question 9

me he levantado

Answer 9

I got up

Question 10

me han lavado los dientes

Answer 10

I brushed my teeth

Question 11

1. teñir
2. ¿tu madre se tiñe (el pelo)?
3. tiñó la falda de azul
4. tiño, tiñes, tiñe, teñimos, teñis, tiñen
5. teñi, teñiste, tiñó, teñimos, teñisteis, tiñieron

Answer 11

1. to dye, to colour (hair)
2. Does your mother colour her hair?
3. she dyed the skirt blue
4. conjug this verb in present
   5 conjug this verb in preterit

Question 12

1. la noche buena

2. navidad

Answer 12

1. christmas eve

2. christmas day

Question 13

1. la noche vieja
2. el año nuievo
3. las doce uvas de la suerte
4. la cuenta atrás

Answer 13

1. new year´s eve
2. new year´s day
3. the 12 lucky grapes (eat 1 with each beat of the countdown, bring luck for next year)
4. the count down

Question 14

subrayar

Answer 14

to underline

Question 15

asignatura

Answer 15

subject

Question 16

1. a.C. (antes de Cristo)

2. d.C. (despues de Cristo)

Answer 16

1. What is BC?

2, What is AD?

Question 17

The Centuries and Kings and Popes

Answer 17

What use roman numerals for?

Question 18

1. si es una autobiografía, VA en primera (tercera) persona

2. ir, usar

Answer 18

1. If it is a autobiography USE the first (third) person

2. What 2 verbs are interchangeable in this context, but the 1st one is more natural.

Question 19

1. AL CABO DE tres años TERMINÓ …
2. because using it with the preterit
3. very formal, teacher normally use 4.
   4 despues de

Answer 19

1. AFTER 3 years he finished …
2. Why this word for after?
3. When use tras?
4. What normally use?

Question 20

1. Gaudi murio … atropellado por un tranvía
2. la atropelló un coche
3. atropellarse
4. habla despacio, no te atropelles

Answer 20

1. Gaudi died … run over by a tram
2. she was run over by a car
3. to rush
4. speak slowly, don´t gabble-babble ie

Question 21

1. Gaudi … alcanzó su plenitud
2. está en la plenitud de la vida
3. vivir la vida con plenitud

Answer 21

1. Gaudi … reached the peak of his career
2. She´s in the prime of her life
3. to live life to the full

Question 22

1. un taza de café
2. una copa de cerveza … wine
3. vamos a tomar una(s) copa(s)
4. me invitó a una copa

Answer 22

1. a cup of coffee
2. a beer, a glass of wine
3. let´s go for a drink
4. He bought me a drink