BASIC SPANISH: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK

Note: In the dialogue there are some expressions that do not have a lot of meaning in themselves,they are just used in colloquia ...

UNIT TWO Unit 2 Numbers, times and dates Numbers You will not be able to get very far in Spanish without a knowledge of numbers, ...

Tiene veintiún años. She is 21 years old. Hay veintiuna casas. There are 21 houses. Notice that numbers 21 to 29 are written as ...

256 doscientos cincuenta y seis (^389) trescientos ochenta y nueve 1.247 mil doscientos cuarenta y siete 2.321 dos mil trescient ...

As in English ‘quarter past’ and ‘half past’ are usually expressed with words rather than with the numbers themselves: Son las d ...

The 24-hour clock is used in the same circumstances as in English, for example when announcing departure times of trains or plan ...

agosto August se(p)tiembre* September octubre October noviembre November diciembre December *The Spanish for ‘September’ can be ...

Exercises 1 Write the following numbers in full: 1 5 6 14 11 18 2 10 7 52 12 145 3 27 8 67 13 269 4 30 9 76 14 12 5 46 10 102 15 ...

1 quarter past six 6 twenty-five past three 2 ten past eight 7 half past one 3 twenty past eleven 8 ten to twelve 4 quarter to t ...

Además de estos días también son fiesta el Jueves Santo y Viernes Santo. En algunas comunidades autónomas cambian el Jueves Sant ...

día del trabajo International workers’ Day Jueves Santo Good Thursday Lunes de Pascua Easter Monday Viernes Santo Good Friday Ba ...

UNIT THREE Unit 3 Subject pronouns and present tense of regular verbs verbs Verbs in Spanish change their endings to indicate th ...

The tendency in Spain at the moment seems to be that the familiar forms (tú and vosotros) are being used more and more at the ex ...

will find in the dictionary as the basis of the verb and which can be translated as ‘to...’, e.g. trabajar ‘to work’. There is a ...

hablas you speak (^) habla he/she speaks, you speak hablamos we speak habláis you speak hablan they speak, you speak Here are so ...

escribir to write Exercises 1 Complete the following sentences choosing the appropriate verb ending for cantar (to sing)in accor ...

5 (Yo) escuch (escuchar) 6 (Nosotros) estudi (estudiar) 7 (Ellas) fum (fumar) 8 (él) trabaj (trabajar) 9 (Ella) llev (llevar) 10 ...

3 ¿_____ sus pinturas en este museo? (exhibir, Ud.) 4 _____ al juicio sin testigos. (acudir, él) 5 No _____ tus promesas. (cumpl ...

Key vocabulary for Unit 3 a menudo often cerca close contacto (m.) contact cuando when diferente different durante during entre ...

Kinship terms Feminine Masculine Both grandparent abuela abuelo abuelos parent madre padre padres siblings hermana hermano herma ...