K2_02_01

Question 1

1. I get worked up/ flustered or into a state.
2. It gets on my nerves/It drives me nuts
3. Re pronouns: why OI come before OD?
4. I like the mountains
5. You like me

Answer 1

1. me pongo nervioso. (ponerse nervioso)
2. me pone de los nervios (poner de los nervios a alguien)
3. Because people (OI) are more important than things (OD)
4. Me gustan las montañas
5. Me gustas [tú] = tú gustas a mí

Question 2

1. What is ajo blanco (And)
2. patatas a lo pobre?
3. puntillitas
4. papas con chocos
5. huevos a la flamenca
6. flamenquin (esp. Córdoba)
7. la ternura retinta
8. rabo de toro

Answer 2

1. soup, almends + garlic
2. potatoes + peppers
3. deep fried tips of calamares (usuall serveed with pescaito frito)
4. choco like a large calarmari (cut up)
5. vegetable stew with eggs, peas
6. a rolled-up San Jocobo (a slice of ham and cheese, breadcrumbed and fried)
7. a tender cut of meat from retinta breed of cow (near Gibralter), good in stews
8. bull-tail stew (strong)

Question 3

1. A. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. B. Nb pronombres (3 points)
2. Unless one has thought it through so clearly, you will be taken advantage of (passive v.)
3. Why that would for “you” in passive voice above?
4. Little red riding hood
5. How pronounce “vota”?

Answer 3

1. A. se te tendría que caer la cara de verguenza B. se = caerse la cara…, te = you, tendría = the head not you
2. Salvo que se pensara tan nítidamente, se aprovechería de alguien
3. Can’t use se cos’ vb is “aprovecharse de”. Therefore need “alguien” or “qualquier persona”
4. la caperucita roja
5. “bota” [there is no separate v sound]

Question 4

1. Why NOT: ¿No es verdad que te los acercaras solo?
2. What is the correct sentence?
3. What diff: A mi se me torció el tobillo.
4. And: A mi me torcieron el tobillo.
5. How say?: I had an idea

Answer 4

1. Cos’ vb = acercerse A. Therefore must take preposionale pronoun ie ellos. Never DO pronoun.
2. ¿No es verdad que te acercaras a + ellos solo?
3. Not accepting it was my responsibility.
4. Clearly saying it was there responsibility.
5. Se me ha occurrido una idea/cosa or Se me ha surjido una idea.

Question 5

1. C: Was there the usual colection of misfits there?
2. C: Don’t try and take me for a fool
3. C: There was a good vibe B. 2 points.
4. Rest assured that (or Be sure that) I will never bad mouth you again.
5. bean [not alubia o judia]

Answer 5

1. Estaba la típica colección de inadaptados allá?
2. No trates de quedarte conmigo
3. Hubo buen rollo B. Can use haber as well as ser for valoraciones + No “un” cos’ general statement
4. Ten por seguro que no le voy a echar pestes nunca más.
5. habichuela

Question 6

1. Exp: he used as an excuse the right to free speech to justify (vb struct)
2. It’s very difficulto to reason with them.
3. … he was insinuating that I had done it on purpose [to insinuate][to do s.th on purpose, when know its bad]
4. … it was a fiasco from start to finish

Answer 6

1. se escudó en el derecho a la libertad de expresión para justificar (escudarse en … para inf)
2. Es muy dificil razonar con ellos
3. … estaba insinuando que hemos hecho adrede [insinuar][hacer algo adrede]
4. … ha sido un fiasco de principio a fin.

Question 7

1. Exp: … they can’t pretend not to know about/feign ignorance of something like that. [to avoid taking responsibility]
2. Exp. to have a bleeding nose
3. Exp: he’s got some nerve/shameless [neg] or he’s a cheeky monkey[pos]
4. Exp: she was a whinger/moaner
5. Exp: he was fussy/a stickler

Answer 7

1. … no pueden desentenderse de algo así. [desentenderse de]
2. tener la mosqueta
3. Es un caradura
4. Era un/a quejicA [-> no seas quejica]
5. Era un tiquismiquis [on own = adj, add un converts to N. Therefore NOT work Que de tiquismiquis]

Question 8

1. He’s a know-it-all -> adj = pretentious B. What 2nd meaning N + adj?
2. fifty cents
3. Bullfighting
4. the bull ring
5. Loc vb: if they just publish offers [lov vb = limit oneself todoing s.th]

Answer 8

1. A. Es un pedante B. pedant + pedantic
2. cinquenta centímos
3. La tauramaquia
4. la plaza de toros
5. si se limitan a publicar ofertas [limitarse a + inf/hacer algo]

Question 9

1. Exp: to have setbacks
2. Exp A: it suits me [both an arrangement + clothes] [What don’t say?]
3. Exp B: it suits me [both an arrangement + clothes]
4. Exp C: it suits me [both an arrangement + clothes]

Answer 9

1. tener muchos contratiempos
2. me pega [MUCHO] [Nb. normally just me pega, NEVER me pega bien]
3. encajo BIEN (encajar NOT encoger)
4. te queda BIEN

Question 10

1. C: You’ve known Pati almost as long as me B. Why Tense?
2. C. she like’s to be in control of her environment (Spanish construction)
3. C: … how Borja could have handled such a dangerous situation B. Grammar point
4. I’ve got no clear idea re what I want to buy B. Why no art?
5. Alternate structure to 5 with article which also work. B. Why?

Answer 10

1. Le conoces casí tanto tiempo como yo B. current tense [Not pret.perf. (has conocido) on basis started in past and still relevent]
2. Le gusta controlar su entorno
3. . …como Borja había podido gestionar está situación tan peligrosa B. There was NO indicator to use subj [eg pudiera] THEREFORE have to us pret. plusc.
4. no tengo ni idea clara de lo que quiero comprar B, Tener + N = caracteristic of person
5. no tengo ni una idea clara de lo que quiero comprar B. Tener + N which part of a group (ie not the only unclear idea)

Question 11

1. What need to make sentence work: Have you spoken to Toni yet?
2. C: I felt as if I was having an interview or [was] before a judge
3. C: She’s thick as theives with Lola
4. What other construction equals: sabes de sobra
5. C: You also dislike it B. Grammar point.

Answer 11

1. ¿Aún no has hablado con Antonio? [Must have NO]
2. Me sentía como si estuviera teniendo una entrevista o ante un juez [NB NOT antes de un juez]
3. Ella es COMO uña y carne
4. sabes (muy) BIEN [But NOT sabes de bien]
5. A tí tampoco te gusta B. No need to include a pronoun cos the pronoun is implicit in the rejection ie tampoco

Question 12

1. C. It’s like sometimes she perceives … B Why “que”?
2. Which + Why? (girl): Me siento muy a gustO/A.
3. Which vb + prep: Había/Era algo chungo sobre/en él.
4. What diff?: Estamos muy UNIDOS aquí. (A, B)
5. Somos como uña y carne

Answer 12

1. Es como QUE a veces percibe .. B. Cos explaining the cause of X need an oracion principal y subordinada
2. A. Me siento muy a gustO B. a gusto = adv = no concordancia
3. A. Ser = valoración de personas/Haber = valoración de cosas. B. Haber … en. C. Había algo chungo en él
4. A. unido = adj/past partic. therefore estar. B. Emphasises that this state is result of an action/process (excludes the newcomer more)
5. Ser = to identify us/characteristic + can’t be with past participle

Question 13

1. The toilet bowel is blocked [<- A. vb origin -> B. traffic jam N.]
2. I’m blocked (eg a writer) [<- vb origin]
3. Which?: some saliva got stuck in my throat [say, to explain that ha,ha,ha sound]
4. What diff between 2 vbs = blocked?
5. How end in writting when other person knows what referring to eg “por no haber tomado su medicamento”
6. How end it orally?

Answer 13

1. El váter está atascado [<- B. atascar = to block, as in obstruct -> B. atasco]
2. Estoy atorado. [<- atorar = to get stuck, eg in throat ->atorarse = to stammer]
3. se me ha atorado con la saliva
4. Both can be used lit. + fig, but circs differ.
5. “…por no haber tomado su medicamento …”
6. The voice goes up at end of medicamento and trails off.

Question 14

1. How say? “I see things that way too” (when agree)
2. Alt way to say same thing?
3. What don’t refer to? Why?
4. What tense follows “sospechar” in subordinate oracion?
5. I thought you had arranged to go out with Lola

Answer 14

1. Lo veo IGUAL (que tú)
2. Lo veo así TAMBIEN
3. Las cosas. Because the reference to “things” is in the “lo”
4. Preterite. It is not a vb which falls within any of the categories to imply subj.
5. Pensaba que habrías quedado para salir con Lola [quedar para Inf = to arrange to do s.th]

Question 15

1. What stress?: Con haber sido un buen estudiente, seguro que sacarás una buena nota [cause]
2. Con haber estado junto a ella todo el tiempo, te lo agradera mucho [cause]
3. Con haber tenido suerte hoy, me conformo [suficiency] [conformarse = to be happy with]
4. What is a persona apañada like?

Answer 15

1. Focuses on the characteristic of the student as the cause.
2. Focuses on the location in as the cause.
3. Focuses of the possession of s.th [good luck] as the cause.
4. A good person in bad times ie always able to come up with a solution, keep calm etc.

Question 16

1. I would give her a piece of jewellery with a personal inscription [engraved] on the back.
2. It’s not long until her birthday
3. I was thinking in throwing her a party
4. I’ve never lied in my life B. Why article?
5. Perhaps I was broke and knew that this piece of pizza would be the last piece that I would eat in a long time Focus on vb tiempos.

Answer 16

1. Te regalaría una joya con una inscripción personal grabada POR DETRAS
2. No queda/falta mucho para su cumpleaños
3. Estaba pensando en hacerla una fiesta
4. No he dicho nunca mentira en mi vida B. No article [la or una] because a general statement
5. Quizá habría sido seco y sabía que este trozo de pizza sería el último trozo que comería en mucho tiempo.

Question 17

1. Why doesn’t this work: hacer una aventura con amigas al morirse de risas
2. Why does this work: Al comer …, Al conducir …
3. On take-off, all the passengers got frightened
4. Struct 1: sentir + [?] eg I felt panicky
5. Struct 2: sentirse + [?] eg I felt scared

Answer 17

1. “al + inf” structure = “al + momento de +inf”. Therefore while similar to “mientras” emphasises the moment. Therefore lit means “at the moment of dying because of laughing to much”
2. At the moment of eating/driving blah blah happened
3. Al despegar, todos los pasajeros se asustaron
4. sentir + N sentí un poco de pánico
5. sentirse + adj me sentí espantada