Nombre: ___________________________
Español II: UNIDAD 6 ETAPA 1: La vida de la ciudad (pg 396-417)
In this unit you will learn:
~to tell what happened
~to make suggestions to a group
~to describe city buildings
~to talk about professions
Sección A: Describing city buildings
Ancho
Antiguo(a)
El edificio
Enorme
Estrecho(a)
Formal
Informal
Lujoso(a)
Moderno(a)
Ordinario(a)
Sencillo(a)
Tradicional
Sección B: Hablando de las profesiones
El/la arquitecto(a)
La arquitectura
El bombero
La cámara
El (la) cartero(a)
La compañía
El (la) contador(a)
El(la) editor(a)
La entrevista
El(la) escritor(a)
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El(la) fotógrafo(a)
El(la) gerente
La grabadora
El hombre de negocios
La mujer de negocios
El jefe
La jefa
El(la) operador(a)
El(la) periodista
La profesión
El(la) recepcionista
El (la) secretario(a)
El(la) taxista
Sección C: Otras palabras útiles
Vamos a…
La contaminación del aire
Decidir
Estar de acuerdo
El(la) ganador(a)
ofrecer
El tráfico
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Gramática: Talking about the past
The preterite of regular –ER/-IR verbs
When you want to talk about actions completed in the past, use the preterite tense.
Remember:
To form the preterite of a regular –AR verb, you drop the -AR, then add the correct ending to
the stem.
Hablar = to talk
Yo hablé
Nosotros hablamos
I talked, I did talk, I was talking
We talked, we did talk, we were
talking
Tú hablaste
x
You talked, you did talk, you are
talking
Él habló
Ellos hablaron
He talked, he did talk,
he was talking
They talked, they did talk, they
were talking
Nuevo: Regular –Er and -IR verbs follow a similar pattern. In the preterite, -ER and –IR verbs
have the same endings. So you only have to remember one chart for them!
Comer = to eat
-Er and –Ir preterite endings
í
imos
iste
x
ió
ieron
comí
comimos
comiste
x
comió
comieron
1. I lived in México last year.
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Vivir= to live
viví
vivimos
viviste
x
vivió
vivieron
2. Did you live in a box?
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3. The students lived in Holland last week.
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4. We ate lunch in the cafeteria.
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5. Did you eat my cookies?!?!
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6. I am sorry, I ate them (the cookies).
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Gramática: The preterite of verbs with a ‘Y’ spelling change.
To write a third person preterite forms of –er and –ir verbs with stems that end in a vowel,
change the í to a y instead. Notice that all of these preterite forms require an accent, except the
ellos, ellas, ustedes forms.
Oír = to hear
leer = to read
oí
oímos
oiste
x
oyó
oyeron
y
creer = to believe
y
y
y
1. They heard the dog. ___________________________________________
2. Did you hear the news? ____________________________________
3. The students and I heard the principal. ________________________________________
4. I heard the children. ________________________________________
5. My dad heard the students. ________________________________________
6. Did you read the letter? ________________________________________
7. I read the newspaper. ________________________________________
8. He read the novel. ________________________________________
9. My cousins read the menu. ________________________________________
10. Did you believe your friend? ________________________________________
11. He believed the story. ________________________________________
12. I didn’t believe anything. ________________________________________
13. They didn’t believe anything, either. ________________________________________
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Gramática: The preterite of irregular verbs: hacer, ir, and ser
The verb ir is irregular in the preterite. Its preterite forms are the same as the preterite forms of
ser, so you only have to memorize one box for both verbs. You need to use context clues to
figure out which meaning of the verb is correct: to be or to go.
Ir / ser = to go or to be (no accentos)
Fui
(I went, I did go, I was going OR
I was)
Fuimos
(we went, we did go, we were
going OR we were)
Fuiste
x
(you went, you did go, you were
going OR You were)
Fue
(he/she/you f went, did go, were
going
OR he she was /you f were)
Fueron
They/all of you went, did go,
were going
OR they were /all of you were)
1. I went to work. ________________________________________________
2. They went to school. _______________________________________
3. Did all of you go to the museum? _______________________________________
4. He went to Ecuador for a month. _______________________________________
5. Last week I went to my favorite restaurant. __________________________
6. Did you go to the market? _____________________________________________
7. The cats were his best friends. _____________________________________________
8. You were my favorite student. _____________________________________________
9. Was he the only boy with short hair?
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1. You did your homework.
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Hacer: to make/to do
Hice
I did/was doing
Hiciste
Hicimos
We did/were doing
x
You did/were doing
Hizo
He/she did/was doing
Hicieron
They/all of you did/
were doing
2. Did he do the homework?
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3. The students made the cake.
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4. We made the tacos.
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5. Did he make the enchiladas?
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6. I made the project.
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