K2_07

Question 1

1. she’s bossy + Adulusian way
2. Lent…
3. … from the 40 days of fasting <- to fast
4. to be in charge/command
5. unofficial groups

Answer 1

1. . (ella) es una mandona/mandón + marimandona
2. la Cuaresma …
3. … desde los cuarenta días de ayuno <- ayunar
4. mandar
5. grupos no oficiales

Question 2

1. the decision maker + the head honcho/big wig (colq)
2. . a hick (or bumpkin or yokel)
3. . the beach is packed (with people) <- vb = to fill up, a space
4. Carpe Diem is a latinism (N) -> adj = cliche
5. I’m going wait for you [Grammatical point]

Answer 2

1. el mandatario + el mandamás
2. un pueblerino
3. la playa está abarrotada <- abarrotar
4. tópico
5. voy a esperarte [NO por, an error due to Eng.]

Question 3

1. Struct 1 - más habitual: If I’m being honest(x2) + opinion
2. Struct 2 - más fml: being honest + opinion
3. Lista de los 5 sentidos - hearing, smell, sight, touch, taste
4. Explain: the diff between amargo and agrio?
5. Which adj?: a sweet memory + Exp?

Answer 3

1. A. Si te soy + sincero/honesto + opinion B. Si te digo + la verdad + opinion
2. siendo + sincero/honesto + opinion
3. el oido, el olfato, la vista, el tacto, el gusto
4. amargo = bitter, taste, agrio = bitter, as in gone-off
5. una memoria dulzona(dulzón) = el sabor de dulce, often empalagoso

Question 4

1. Explain: the diff between -> caluroso (A.+ B.) -> cálido (C. + D.) -> caliente (E.)
2. a desolate spot (or space), as in location
3. What adj?: a grating, sound + a garish/loud, colour
4. bandages <- vb = to bandage -> sling, for arm
5. Vb: to wolf down, as in eat greedily

Answer 4

1. [A. feels the heat B. un día caluroso, ie hot, as in gives off heat.] [C. hot, as in high temperatures eg clima D. a warm(hearted) person.] E. things which have become hot eg oven, bench
2. un paraje desolado
3. estridente
4. vendaje <- vendar -> cabestrillo
5. zampar

Question 5

1. I want a break
2. Change adj: unusual -> unheard of/unprecedented
3. the glare, as in from the sun
4. a ball of thread
5. the idea expressed by [X person] <- vb = to express, as in to voice, give shape to

Answer 5

1. Quiero una pausa
2. insólito -> inaudito/insólito
3. el resol
4. un madeje de hilo
5. la idea plasmada <- plasmar

Question 6

1. Speaking: What is cecear?
2. Spkg: Say de forma ceceante - ¿te vienes a mi casa?
3. Where cecear?
4. Spkg: What is sesear?
5. Spkg: Say de forma seseante: zapato, corazon
6. Where sesear?

Answer 6

1. Pronounce “s” like “th” as in think, with an aspirated sound
2. ¿Te viene - ha mi caza
3. Chiclana de la frontera, Cádiz province
4. Pronounce “z” as a “s”
5. sapato, corason
6. Cádiz Cádiz

Question 7

1. Spkg: What do Andaluces do to participios? How does it sound?
2. Spkg: ponme un cortado, estoy cortado, he hablado con tu madre
3. Spkg: What elso do Granainos do?
4. a wheelbarrow
5. Colq aporrear = golpear, explain origin + colq name for police

Answer 7

1. Drop the D. Sounds like “ow”, as in pain
2. ponme un cortao, estoy cortao, he hablao con tu madre
3. Put a bit more emphasis on -es p.e. los colores de
4. un carretilla
5. From a beating from a porra = truncheon, HENCE police -> los maderos

Question 8

1. Explain coger -> recoger
2. How do Latin-Americans use re+word?
3. What must follow tirarse de?
4. Compare vbs: to train CF to premiere/release
5. Why? “soy pesimista” CF “soy un caballero”

Answer 8

1. re = repetition of action, here of “cogiendo” HENCE = tidy up, a room OR pick up, off the ground OR pick, fruit etc.
2. As an intensifier eg resoleado = muy soleado (sunny)
3. A definite article eg llega a tirarse de los helicópteros
4. entrenar CF estrenar
5. Cos’ pesimistic is a characteristic, you are or aren’t. I can be more or less a gentlemen ie referring to a type not a characteristic

Question 9

1. Good on me/you etc!
2. Alt way: Good on me/you etc.!
3. Colq:Alt Nx2 = movida

Answer 9

1. Olé por mi, tí, el.
2. Bravo por mí, tí etc.
3. lío + jaleo, also = noise

Question 10

1. What is implicit in liarse, hence it means?
2. Hence if: el es muy lioso
3. Colq. Cadiz: to leave a place
4. Colq: what rude word indicates surprise, like Bloody Hell!
5. Vulg, same word: What the hill is zat?, as in what’s it’s name.

Answer 10

1. to spend too long in a place,, HENCE to get caught/mixed up in eg the party, stayed too long.
2. is a troublemaker cos’ persuades to stay too long
3. picar billetes
4. ¡Coño
5. ¿El coño es esto?

Question 11

1. How make exp (“you have your heart in your mouth”). more expressive/emphasis? This is how usually said)
2. Say expressively: My stress levels rise which I drink too much coffee.
3. Colq exp: I mean it ie sinceremente

Answer 11

1. se se te sale el corazón por la boca
2. se me sube la tensión cuando toma mucho café
3. hablando en plata

Question 12

1. If me da lo mismo = me da igual: How add a bit of emphasis?
2. Colq use 1 of lo mismo: refer to s.th repeated
3. Colq use 2 of lo mismo: refer to s.o/thg unpredictable
4. Colq use 3 of lo mismo: eg s.o asks your pref
5. My cousin has taken to going to the beach every day [vb = to have taken to do X]

Answer 12

1. Que me da lo mismo, or Que buen día
2. The same eg el mismo comportamiento
3. Perhaps/might = Probability
4. Indifference, as in I don’t care = Igual
5. Mi primo ha dado por ir a la playa cada día [dar por hacer algo]

Question 13

1. Correction: All I’m trying to say is that how you approach this idea with…
2. Correction: Give me 5 push-ups
3. Correction: During the movie we held hands
4. Correction: We’‘ll she’s already called me and we’re going out tonight [Oral struct, surprise]
5. Correction: You’re blushing

Answer 13

1. Lo único que estoy tratando de decir es que como te acerques a esta idea con … [next vb, simple future]
2. Hazme cinco flexiones [hacer + ejercicio]
3. Durante la peli nos cogimos las manos
4. Pues, ya me había llamado y saldremos esta noche
5. Estás sonrojándote [sonrojarse]

Question 14

1. Refrain: See you later alligator
2. Refrain: I’m so so so sorry
3. Exp: I feel hot and sticky
4. Cádiz: what say instead of copa (de ron y coca)
5. Andalucia: What is a rebujito?

Answer 14

1. Hasta luego máquina
2. Lo siento mucho de alma
3. A. estar/sentirse + pegajoso/a B.
4. corbata
5. A mixture of 7 Up and White Wine