ASÍ SOY (Unidad 8)

ASÍ SOY (Unidad 8)
1. Lee y marca (page 187)
Read Mundolenguas language school brochure. What would you like to do after the Spanish
lessons?
2. Escucha y contesta (page 187)
Listen to the conversation between Alicia and Andrés and answer the questions.
1. What is Alicia’s good news?
2. What worries her however?
3. How does Andrés answer to Alicia’s worry?
4. What does Andrés suggest?
3. Escribe (page 190)
Fill in with the information from the text.
Name
Nationality
Language he/she Reason
Interests or
wants to learn or
hobbies
practice
Javier
Mia
Alicia
Luca
4. Contesta (page 190)
Answer the questions in Spanish.
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Ask your pair, why does he study Spanish?
5. Completa (page 191)
Fill in with your personal information.
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Tell about yourself to your partner in Spanish.
6. Busca (page 191)
Find in the text.
1. I have to learn Portuguese.
2. I love travelling.
3. I’m going to leave for student exchange.
4. I love films.
5. I’m going to go to the United States to work.
______________________________
6. I like to play basketball.
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Forrm sentences that tell about you. Use the expressions in the activity above.
* La Puerta del Sol is a square in the Centre of Madrid. It’s one of the busiest and most regular
meeting places in the city.
* The statue El oso y el madroño represents a bear and a madroño- tree. They are also found in
the coat of arms of Madrid.
7. Completa (page 194)
Answer the questions.
1. Why do Alicia and Naomi want to meet?
2. Where do they meet?
3. What is Alicia wearing?
4. What is Alicia wearing?
8. Practica (page 194)
Talk with your pair about the meeting between Alicia and Naomi according to the tips. Take turns.
1. at Sol, at 20.00
2. English, Spanish
3. tall, slim
4. a red coat, jeans, a black purse
5. blond, not too tall
6. a green jacket, a white backpack, glasses
9. Practica (page 194)
Practice with your partner according to the tips.
Alicia
Naomi
1. Say hello.
2. Answer.
3. Are you Naomi?
4. Answer and make sure, she is Alicia.
5. Yes. How are you?
6. Answer.
7. Suggest going for a cup of coffee.
8. Suggest: Café Imperial. Close.
9. Good!
10. Ok!
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Work with your pair and make up the continuation of the conversation.
10. Escucha y repite (page 194)
Listen and repeat.
11. Escribe (page 195)
Add the missing words in the text.
1. a T-shirt
2. a jersey, a sweater
Colors are
conjugated
like
adjectives.
3. a jacket
4. a dress
5. shoes
12. Practica (page 195)
Practice with your pair.
COMUNICACIÓN (pages: 196-197)
SPEAK ABOUT OUR PREFERENCES
Me gusta el cine.
Me gustan las películas románticas.
I like the cinema.
I like romantic films.
Me gusta viajar.
I like to travel.
¿Te gusta el teatro?
Do you like theater?
Me gusta mucho. / Me encanta.
A mí también. / A mí no.
I like it very much. / I love it.
Me too. / I don’t.
No me gusta (nada).
A mí tampoco. / A mí sí.
I don’t like (at all).
Me neither. / I do.
TO DESCRIBE A PERSON
¿Cómo es?
Es moreno, -a.
How is he/she?
He/She is dark haired/skinned.
Es simpatico, -a.
He/She is nice.
¿Qué (ropa) lleva?
Lleva un abrigo negro.
Lleva gafas.
What is he/she wearing?
He/She is wearing a black coat.
He/She wears glasses.
13. Practica (page 197)
Work in groups of three people. Ask each other about things you like.
14. Escucha y relaciona (page 198)
Add the missing adjectives to the vocabulary above. Listen and repeat.
15. Practica (page 198)
Describe a character of the book to your pair. He/She has to guess who you are talking about. You
can also describe other people you both know.
16. Escucha y relaciona (page 199)
The Agencia 24 horas- news agency is planning a recreational day for the staff and their families.
Listen, what the characters tell about their preferences? Mark the correct letter.
17. Practica (page 199)
Form sentences using the expressions in the box. You can add others words to the sentences.
18. Practica (page 200)
Ask your pair whether he/she likes the following things?
19. Traduce (page 201)
Translate into English the sentences with your pair.
20. Escribe (page 202)
Form sentences.
21. Escribe (page 202)
Translate into Spanish.
1. Luis, where are you from and what do you do?
2. I’m from Buenos Aires and I’m a photographer.
3. Do you like your work in the news agency?
4. I like it very much.
5. What do you do in the evenings and in the weekends?
6. I write a blog about my city and I go out to eat with my friends.
GRAMMAR (pages: 200-201, 204)
VERB –GUSTAR
Me gusta el fútbol.
I like football.
Me gustan los deportes de equipo.
I like team sports.
Gusta or gustan? Fill in the sentences according to the sentences above.
Justify your answer.
In Spanish this is expressed by saying that something pleases you.
The verbs encantar I love and interesar to interest are used the same way as gustar.
Me encanta esquiar.
I love skiing.
Me interesa la historia de Valencia.
I’m interested in Valencia’s history.
THE PREPOSITIONAL FORMS OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS
When you want to clarify or emphasize who likes something, the a preposition and the
prepositional form of the personal pronoun is used.
A mí me gusta jugar al fútbol con mis amigos.
I like to play football with my friends.
A Sofía le gusta jugar al dominó con su abuela.
Sofía likes to play dominoes with her
grandmother.
The prepositional form of the personal pronoun is also used with other prepositions, not only with
a.
Para mí, un café.
For me, a coffee.
CHANGES IN THE VOWELS OF THE STEM OF VERBS PREFERIR AND JUGAR
- Paloma, ¿vamos a nadar este fin
de semana?
Paloma, are we going swimming
this weekend?
- Prefiero jugar al tenis.
I prefer to play tennis.
- ¡Juegas muy bien, Juan!
You play very well, Juan!
- Gracias. Es que me encanta.
Thank you. The thing is I love it.
Juego todas las semanas.
I play every week.
Conjugate the verbs preferir (e/ei) and jugar (u/ue) in every personal form with your pair.
22. Lee y contesta (page 203)
Luis works as a photographer in Agencia 24 horas –this news agency is located in Buenos Aires.
Read Luis’s blog and answer the questions.
According to the blog, what can you do in the following places?
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Discuss in groups of three people. What would you like to do in Buenos Aires and why?
23. Practica (page 204)
Ask your pair, does he/she like the following things. Mark the answer in the table. Make up two
more things, you want to ask your pair.
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Tell to another member of your group, what your pair likes and doesn’t like.
24. Completa (page 205)
Fill in the conversation with the verbs hacer, jugar or salir in the right form.
25. Reflexiona y escribe (page 206)
Continue the sentences, as you want.
26. Practica (page 206)
Choose a pair that you don’t know yet. Practice according to the tips. Switch roles.
A
B
1. Say hello and introduce yourself.
Ask your partner’s name.
2. Answer and introduce yourself.
3. Where are you from?
4. Answer and ask the same.
5. Answer. What languages do you speak?
6. Answer. Why do you study Spanish?
7. Answer and ask the same.
8. Answer. Ask what he/she does in the
evenings and in the weekends.
9. Tell what you usually do or your hobbies.
10. Say that you love something your pair
does and ask what days your partner does
that.
11. Tell what days and suggest you go together.
12. Apologize that you can’t make it that
day/time and explain why. Propose another
time.
13. Agree. Say goodbye.
14. Goodbye.
27. Escribe (page 206)
Write a presentation message of yourself for a forum on the Mundolenguas language school web
site. You can also make a video of your presentation.
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Greet and introduce yourself.
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Tell, what you study or what you do for living, what you like, and why do you want to study
Spanish.
28. Escucha y contesta (page 207)
Paloma’s family comes to have lunch to Mercedes’s house on Sunday. Listen and answer the
questions.
1. What has Mercedes prepared for lunch?
2. What do Paloma and Juan choose to drink?
3. What does Mercedes tell about the trip to Valencia?
4. What is the news that Juan tells Mercedes?
29. Escribe (page 207)
You are going to a Spanish course in Spain. Write a letter for your host family answering their
letter.
1. Say hello and ask how they are doing.
2. Tell the basic things about yourself. Describe your appearance and personality a little bit.
3. Tell about things you like and what do you do in your free time.
4. Tell the date of your arrival and finish the letter.