Teach Y G - 12 - Wants & preferences

Question 1

1. Querer

Answer 1

1. What is the verb most frequently used to ASK WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Question 2

1. conj querer + noun
2. conj querer + pronoun
3. conj querer + verb

Answer 2

What is the structure to using querer to ask what do you want? (3)

Question 3

1. Quiero un zumo de naranja

2. conj querer + noun

Answer 3

1. I want an orange juice

2. What structure is this?

Question 4

1. Quiero pollo. ¿Cómo lo quiere?

2. conj querer + pronoun

Answer 4

1. I want chicken. What do you want

2. What structure is this?

Question 5

1. ¿Qué quieres hacer?

2. conj querer + verb

Answer 5

1. What do you want to do?

2. What structure is this?

Question 6

1. Queremos una habitación.

2. conj querer + noun

Answer 6

1. we want a room

2. What structure is this?

Question 7

1. Quiero esto.

2. conj querer + pronoun

Answer 7

1. I want this

2. What structure is this?

Question 8

1. Quiero alquilar un coche

2. conj querer + verb

Answer 8

1. I want to hire a car

2. What structure is this?

Question 9

1. preferir (I -> ie)

2. conj preferir + noun/pronoun/verb

Answer 9

1. What is the verb most frequently used to ASK PREFERENCES?

2. what is the structure?

Question 10

1. ¿Cómo quiere el pescado?

2. Lo quiero frito.

Answer 10

1. How do you want the fish?

2. I want it fried.

Question 11

1. ¿Cómo quiere las patatas?

2. Las quiero fritas.

Answer 11

1. How do you want the potatoes?

2. I want them fried.

Question 12

1. Prefiero a Carmen
2. La prefiero
3. Can change lo to la when direct object if a female person

Answer 12

1. I prefer Carmen
2. I prefer her.
3. What is the direct object pronoun in 2 and why?

Question 13

1. Yo lo prefiero.
2. Yo le prefiero
3. In Madrid le for him and lo for it. Outside Madrid and S. America lo for him AND it.

Answer 13

1. I prefer him/it
2. I prefer him.
3. What is the direct object pronoun in 1 & 2 and why?

Question 14

El pescado, ¿Cómo lo quiere? Frita, a la plancha …

Answer 14

The fish, how do you want it? Fried, grilled … eg a waiter asking a Q

Question 15

1. … y DE SEGUNDO quiero chuletas de cerdo
2. Las chuletas, ¿con qué las quiere?
3. Con puré

Answer 15

1. … and AS A SECOND COURSE I want pork chops.
2. the chops, what do you want with that?
3. mashed potatoes

Question 16

1. Quiero una camisa de ésas.
2. ¿De qué color la quiere?
3. Lo prefiero en azul.
4. ¿Y de qué talla?
5. ¿Puedo probármela?
6. Cómo no

Answer 16

1. I want one of those shirts.
2. Which colour do you want?
3. I´d prefer it in blue
4. And, what size?
5. Can I try it on?
6. Certainly

Question 17

1. desear
2. In formal contexts
3. quisiera/quisiéramos = imperfect subjunctive

Answer 17

1. What is an alternative to querer?
2. When use it?
3. What else use in that context?

Question 18

1. Quisiera una habitación.
2. El quisiera ayudar.
3. Quisiéramos hacer algo.

Answer 18

1. I´d like a room. (formal, structure 2)
2. He’d like to help. (formal, structure 2)
3. We’d like to do something. (formal, structure 2)