El 18 de febrero
martes
Charger Time!
Español 4 IB-SL
Per 4
Greet students. Take attendance.
1. Give students a few mins to review before taking the test on Wonder & Probably
Repaso de los conceptos: “Wonder” y “Probably”
Traduce usando 2 construcciones apropiadas cuando es posible.
1. I wonder if he is working tomorrow.
2. I wonder if he worked yesterday.
3. They wonder if we have arrived yet.
4. They wondered if we would arrive soon.
5. He probably listens to the news every day.
6. He probably already heard the news this morning.
2. Finish & Correct WS El Futuro, Condicional, y Probabilidad #2
3. Take the test
If time permits:
4. Start unit on Technology:
¿Cuáles son los medios que usamos para interactuar, transmitir y recopilar datos con fines de
comunicación y entretenimiento? ¿Qué impacto tienen en nuestras vidas? ¿Cómo nos afectan?
 Las redes sociales
 La televisión
 El Internet (la Red)
 El teléfono
 La radio
 Incluso el arte y el cine
 La prensa
Repaso de los conceptos: “Wonder” y “Probably”
Traduce usando 2 construcciones apropiadas cuando es
posible.
1. I wonder if he is working tomorrow.
2. I wonder if he worked yesterday.
3. They wonder if we have arrived yet.
4. They wondered if we would arrive soon.
5. He probably listens to the news every day.
6. He probably already heard the news this morning.
Terminar y correguir
WS El Futuro, Condicional, y Probabilidad #2
Tomar el examen.
Si hay tiempo después del examen, empezar a aprender el
vocabulario para la unidad de tecnología.
Saying 'I Wonder' in Spanish
Future Tense Common Way of Expressing Speculation
By Gerald Erichsen
http://spanish.about.com/od/verbtenses/a/wonder.htm
Although you can translate the English verb "to wonder," meaning "to not know and to be curious about"
using the Spanish verb preguntarse, Spanish speakers often convey such a sense of uncertainty in their
choice of verb tense.
Use of preguntarse is straightforward if you're familiar with reflexive verbs. It can be literally translated as
"to ask oneself," and has basically that same meaning.
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Me pregunto si es amor lo que siento o es solo un capricho. I wonder if it is love I am feeling or if
it is only a whim.
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Nos preguntamos si este invierno volverá a nevar. We wonder if it will snow again this winter.
Yo me preguntaba lo mismo. I wondered the same thing.
¿Qué es la vida buena?, se preguntaban los griegos. What is the good life? the Greeks wondered.
Nunca se preguntaron cómo podía ser posible. They never wondered how it could be possible.
When speaking of wondering about something that is occurring in the present, it is common in Spanish
to use the future indicative tense in the form of a question. For example, to say, "I wonder where my
keys are," you could say, "¿Dónde estarán las llaves?" (The same sentence might also be translated as
"Where can my keys be?")
It is important to understand that "¿Dónde estarán las llaves?" does not (unless the context makes clear
otherwise) mean "Where will my keys be?" There is a difference, however, between asking the direct
question, "¿Dónde están las llaves?" (present tense, "Where are my keys?") and using the future tense
as in "¿Dónde estarán las llaves?" In the latter case, the speaker isn't necessarily looking for an answer.
Following are some other examples of what is sometimes called the suppositional future. In the examples
below, two English translations are given. Either one (and possibly others) would be possible.
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¿Quién irá a Fráncfort? I wonder who's going to Frankfurt. Who could be going to Frankfurt?
¿Qué querrá decir el autor en esta oración? I wonder what the author is saying in this sentence.
What could the author be saying in this sentence?
¿Qué pensarán de nosotros en Japón? I wonder what the Japanese think about us. What could they
be thinking about us in Japan?
In the same way, the conditional tense can be used to express speculation about the past, although
this is less common than the use of the future tense explained above:
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¿Qué querría la policía con él? I wonder what the police wanted with him. What would the police
have wanted with him?
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¿Dónde estarían los secuestrados? I wonder where the hostages were. Where would the hostages
have been?
Both the future and conditional tenses have uses other than those explained in this lesson. As usual, context
rules when seeking to understand what Spanish speakers are saying.
Nombre ___________________________________ Fecha _____________ Per ______
WS
El Futuro, Condicional, y Probabilidad #2
Pg ____
Express “I wonder” using the verb preguntarse , el futuro if possible, or el condicional.
1. I wonder if she is going to the dance.
a) ______________________________________________________________________
b) ______________________________________________________________________
2. Do you wonder what your future will be like?
a. ______________________________________________________________________
3. I wonder what she is trying to say.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
4. He was wondering where we had gone.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
5. I wonder what he meant to say.
a.
_____________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
6. I wonder what happens if we don’t stop polluting the water.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
7. They were wondering what to do with all the trash.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
8. They were wondering what they would do with all the trash.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
9. I wonder what they did with all the trash.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
10. I wonder why they have left.
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________