BASIC SPANISH: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK

eran iban veían Here are some examples of these irregular verbs in the imperfect tense: Era un día estupendo y hacía un tiempo m ...

The imperfect tense is often incomplete without reference (whether stated or implied) to another action in the preterite, in oth ...

4 Mientras vosotros _____ (ir) a la compra, ellos _____ la comida (hacer). 5 Mientras nosotros _____ (estar) en el cine, Juan __ ...

Infanta Doña Elena, dos años más tarde (9) _____ (venir) al mundo la Infanta Doña Cristina y en 1968 el Príncipe Don Felipe. Don ...

consecuencia (f.) consequence depender de to depend on ducharse to have a shower economía de mercado (f.) market economy empresa ...

UNIT NINETEEN Perfect and pluperfect tenses Perfect tense The perfect tense in Spanish is used in a similar way to the perfect t ...

Notice that the past participle is invariable, in other words, it does not change to agree in number or gender with the subject. ...

I have been waiting for ten minutes (and I am still waiting). He has been studying English for two years (and he is still studyi ...

2 Describe what Mario and Lola have done today with the information provided (use the perfect in Spanish): 1 They got up at 7.15 ...

5 Complete this text with the verbs that are given to you below (they are in the right form for the appropriate blank). ha gusta ...

Key vocabulary for Unit 19 andanzas (f.) travels (old spanish) bienestar (m.) welfare caballería chivalry calidad (f.) quality f ...

UNIT TWENTY The future tense In colloquial Spanish the future is usually expressed by ir a + infinitive, equivalent to the Engli ...

There are a few irregular verbs in which the infinitive is slightly changed before the endings are added. Once the change is lea ...

2 Change these sentences into the future tense: 1 Pedro cantaba todos los días en Madrid. 2 María ha escrito un libro. 3 Juan y ...

1 Necesitamos un paraguas porque mañana _____. 2 ¿_____ esquiar este fin de semana? 3 ¿_____ llegar tu hermana a esta casa? 4 Di ...

Key vocabulary for Unit 20 calzado (m.) footwear comerciar to trade ingresos (m.) income lana (f.) wool piel (f.) hide, fur The ...

Key to exercises Unit 1: Nouns and articles 1 1 el problema 2 los niños 3 las ciudades 4 el sol 5 la canción 6 el poema 7 las co ...

Unit 3: Subject pronouns and present tense of regular verbs 1 1 cantas 2 cantas 3 cantas 4 canta 5 cantan 6 cantáis 7 cantáis 8 ...

de los museos de pintura más importantes del mundo. En Madrid además están el Museo Reina Sofía (de arte contemporáneo) y el Mus ...

Unit 6: Negatives 1 1 No quiero a nadie. 2 No tengo nada. 3 No hablo con nadie. 4 No voy al cine nunca./Nunca voy al cine. 5 Eso ...