Maida F02 - numbers + habría

Question 1

1. Juan veintitrés fue un buen Papa.

2. Cardinal = Kings, Centuries etc not 1 of the 4 categories use ordinal no’s (anniversaries, rankings, events, stages)

Answer 1

1. Juan 23rd was a good Pope.

2. Ordinal or cardinal numbers? Why?

Question 2

1, Eres un TITERE.

2. Yo no soy el titere de nadie.
3. Yo no creo que seas el titere, ni PELELE, ni un FLOJO SIN AGALLAS
4. agalla = gill, agallas = guts (collq)
5. flojo = slacker (person)

Answer 2

1. You’re a PUPPET. (S+P)
2. I’m no-one’s puppet.
3. I don’t think that you’ll be a puppet, nor [a] WIMP, nor a GUTLESS WONDER.
4. what is noun (gut)?
5. What is noun (wonder)?

Question 3

1. ¿Cuántos candidatos hay? UNOS quininientos.
2. ¿Y en qué lugar estas tú? EN el ciento veintinco.
   2a. Over 100 = cardinal numbers

Answer 3

1. How many candidates are there? Some 500.
2. And in what place are you? 125th
   2b. Ordinal or cardinal no?

Question 4

1. VENGA YA, ¡esto es una broma!

2. ¡Venga ya, ha sido falta!

Answer 4

1. COME ON, pull the other one.

2. COME ON, that was a foul.

Question 5

1. He empezado a escribir el tercer[] capítulo de mi novela.

2. primero, tercero + nombre masculino singular = primer, tercer

Answer 5

1. I´ve starte writing the 3rd chapter of my novel.

2. Grammar point re 3rd?

Question 6

Lo ves. Eres mi ángel de la guarda

Answer 6

You see. You´re my guardian angel. (S+P)

Question 7

1. ¿Estás preparando la comida A los INVITADOS.
2. Sí, SE + LAS + estoy preparando.
3. Sí, estoy preparándoSElas

Answer 7

1. Are you preparing the GUEST´S food?

2. Yes, I am preparing it. (2x)

Question 8

¡Ya está bien! ¡Ya está bien!

Answer 8

That´s enough! That´s enough! (S+P)

Question 9

1. ¿Llevas una hora haciendo ese ejercicio?
2. Sí, LO + lleva una hora haciendo.
3. Sí, lleva una hora haciéndolo.

Answer 9

1. Have you been doing that exercise for an hour?

2. Yes, I’ve been doing it for an hour. (2x)

Question 10

1. Mis pies están congelados.

2. Tengo los pies fríos.

Answer 10

1. My feet are freezing.

2. My feet are cold

Question 11

1. ¿Sigues llevando flores a Asunción?
2. Sí, SE + LAS + sigo llevando.
3. Sí, sigo llevándoSElas

Answer 11

1. Do you still take flowers to Asunción?

2. Yes, I still take them to her. (2x)

Question 12

No se puede estar en dos sitios A LA VEZ

Answer 12

One can’t be in two places AT THE SAME TIME/AT ONCE. (S+P)

Question 13

1. Refer to s.th in past couldn´t do due to circs
2. Refer to s.th in past could only do cos´of extraordinary circs
3. Express one of the possible explanations re why s.th happened.
4. Talk about desires in past that not fulfilled.

Answer 13

What 4 circs use compound conditional eg habría trabajado?

Question 14

1. Has renunciado a tu ilusión de ser policía.

2. renunciar A + la bebido/el tabaco

Answer 14

1. You´ve given up your DREAM of being a policeman. (S+P)

2. to give up … drinking/smoking

Question 15

1. 1st = a certain fact re s.th in the past, 2nd = a probability or supposition re the same.
2. ¿Por qué no me llamó Ramón?
3. Había perdido tu número de teléfono.
4. No tengo ni idea. Habría perdido tu número.

Answer 15

1. What diff between había estudido and habría estudido?
2. Why did Ramón not call?
3. He lost your telephone no.
4. No idea. He could have lost your no.

Question 16

Me engañaste BASTANTE bien, Lemos

Answer 16

You deceived me REAL GOOD, Lemos (S+P)

Question 17

1. Nos habría gustado tener hijos.
2. Refer to a desire in past that not fulfilled.
3. Vb = gustar, encantar, preferir
4. NOT habríaMOS with gustar, encantar

Answer 17

1. We would like to have had children.
2. Why that tense?
3. Clue?
4. Grammatical point

Question 18

1. produce grandes cantidades de un DESECHO conocido como purines.
2. desechar = to throw away, to throw out, discard
3. los purines no son un ABONO.
4. a season ticket

Answer 18

1. produces large quantities of a WASTE known as purines (Slow News)
2. What is origin of n = waste/rubbish
3. Purines isn’t used as a FERTILISER
4. What other meaning of n = fertiliser?

Question 19

1. La familia de X tuvieron que RECOGER LOS PLATOS ROTOS y HACERSE CARGO DE 5.000 euros
2. hacerse cargo de
3. ludopatía.

Answer 19

1. X’s family had to PICK UP THE PIECES and WEAR THE COST of the 5,000 euros (Slow News)
2. vb = pay for, foot the bill, wear the cost
3. compulsive gambling, gambling addiction