Saturday, February 19, 2022

LEAVING CERT COURSE, 2022, CLASS 4

 Clase 4

 

In this class we revised talking about el colegio and added more about las reglas – rules

Está prohibido utilizar el móvil en la clase

Tenemos que llevar el uniforme siempre.

We then talked about technology – la tecnología – on p.17. Here we matched the Spanish to the English and then we asked and answered the questions on p.18.

We then went on to look at how to answer the “synonym” questions on p.19, 20 and 21. The text is from 2009 and is about an early addiction that some people had to mobile phones. “colgados” is slang for “addicted”.

The questions here involve finding an expression in the text that means the same as the one given in the question. There are a number of clues that we can use to find the correct expression….

1. Grammar – if the verb is in the infinitive in the question, it is 99% also in the infinitive in the required expression in the text. Also if it is in the present tense, or the perfect or the future, the same applies. This helps us narrow down the possibilities.

2. Synonyms – we need to locate a word in the text that means the same as one of the words in the question – in exercise “a” on p.20, for example, “hace unos años” means the same as “unos años atrás”. This helps us find the answer.

For homework we have to do the exercises on p.20 and 21.

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