A8-3//23//24//june8, Flashcards

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Q

I would like to talk about Nairobi at the time when it was a colony and when life there was very different.

A

Quisiera hablar de Nairobi en la época cuando era una colonia y cuando la vida allí era muy diferente. correct

this is description so should be imp and it isn´t a specific time frame

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She was married to her lover’s brother but in the end they divorced.

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Estaba casada con el hermano de su amante pero finalmente se divorciaron. correct
últimamente - recently, lately
finalmente - finally, in the end, lastly
al final - at the end

el divorcio - noun
to divorce - divorciarse - verb a reciprocal verb

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She divorced him.

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Ella se divorció de él. Ok

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She met another man.

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Conoció a otro hombre. OK
No es conoció a un otro hombre - otro no requiere artículo

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Later, she fell in love with Dennis Finch-Hatton, a British man who was a very famous hunter.

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Más tarde, se enamoró de Dennis Finch-Hatton un británico que era un cazador muy famoso. OK
it is era, not fue, because it is descriptive-or-background.

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Her coffee farm burned down.

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Su finca de café se quemó.
por qué no se puede decir - Se quemó su finca de café? you can use either but the second sounds strange, the first is better

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He went hunting and left her alone.

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Se fue a cazar y la dejó sola. OK

why “a” cazar and not “para” cazar? because of the verb ir - a

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It seemed that he was going to marry her but when he went on a hunting trip by plane, the plane crashed and he died.

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Parecía que iba a casarse con ella pero cuando se fue de caza en avión, el avión se estrelló y él murió. OK

why iba? because of concordancia de tiempos verbales
is casarse reflexive? no it is reciproco, but you have to use the SE
Estrellarse - crash

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He was a baron who had two children, a boy and a girl.

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Él era un barón que tenía dos hijos, un varón y una hembra. OK

note barón y varón (uve - v)

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10
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She proposed to him that they go to Africa and start a dairy farm.

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Ella le propuso (a él) que fueran a África y montaran una granja lechera. OK
fueran and montaran are subjunctive because of que and change of subject? yes

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She had money but no title and her lover´s brother had a title but no money.

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Ella tenía dinero pero no un/una título/posición y el hermano de su amante tenía un/una título/posición pero no dinero. OK +-
título also means diploma

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12
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She was going to give her lover´s brother money so that they could move to África and marry.

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Ella le iba a dar dinero al hermano de su amante para que pudieran mudarse a África y casarse. OK

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13
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Thus she was going to have a title and he was going to have money.

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Así ella iba a tener un título y él iba a tener dinero. OK

description of what was going on in the past

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14
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They would then be royalty.

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Serían entonces personas de la realeza. OK
Entonces serían de la realeza.

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Unfortunately, poor people live in poverty.

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Lamentablemente, los pobres viven en la pobreza. OK
do not use subjunctive here

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