Level B2 · Chapter 73.5
Review 13: lessons 67 to 73
The vocabulary from lessons 67 to 73 that does not come back, the grammar of the block in one table, and two exercises. The last free roads.
What you will learn
- Check, word by word, how much of the vocabulary from lessons 67 to 73 you actually remember.
- Choose between indicative and subjunctive after aunque, according to what you know.
- Talk about what is not the case, with si and the imperfect subjunctive.
The story in easy Spanish
Junto al pueblo de Quiteria habían levantado unas enramadas para que los convidados comiesen a la sombra.
Next to Quiteria’s village they had put up leafy arbours so that the guests could eat in the shade.
En una caldera freían la masa, y un cocinero le dio un cucharón para que Sancho sacara del puchero lo que quisiera.
In a cauldron they were frying the dough, and a cook gave him a ladle so that Sancho could take what he liked out of the stewpot.
Los gansos colgaban de los árboles mientras los danzantes representaban una batalla entre el Amor y el Interés.
The geese hung from the trees while the dancers acted out a battle between Love and Money.
Quiteria y Basilio habían tenido tiempo de criarse juntos, aunque el padre de ella prefirió un novio con dote.
Quiteria and Basilio had had time to grow up together, although her father preferred a bridegroom with a dowry.
Adelantó el compromiso a fin de que la muchacha no tuviera tiempo de arrepentirse.
He brought the engagement forward so that the girl would have no time to have second thoughts.
Delante del altar apareció Basilio, apoyado en un bastón y sin ninguno de los anillos del novio rico.
In front of the altar Basilio appeared, leaning on a staff and without any of the rich bridegroom’s rings.
Dijo que no venía a estorbar la boda, aunque hubiera querido a Quiteria desde niño.
He said he was not coming to get in the way of the wedding, even if he had loved Quiteria since childhood.
Sacó un estoque del bastón, puso el pomo en el suelo y se dejó caer sobre la hoja.
He drew a rapier out of the staff, set the pommel on the ground and let himself fall onto the blade.
Con voz apagada, el moribundo pidió la mano de esposa, y don Quijote avisó de que la viudez llegaría antes que el banquete.
In a faint voice, the dying man asked for her hand in marriage, and Don Quixote warned that the widowhood would arrive before the banquet.
Todo estaba ensayado con un canuto de sangre bajo la ropa, y el novio burlado mandó que siguiera la música.
It was all rehearsed, with a tube of blood under his clothes, and the tricked bridegroom ordered the music to go on.
Camino de Aragón compraron cien brazas de soga y abrieron a espadazos un agujero cubierto de zarzas.
On the road to Aragon they bought a hundred fathoms of rope and cut open a bramble-covered hole with sword blows.
Del fondo salieron cuervos y murciélagos, y Sancho, sin poder santiguarse bastante, le rogó que no bajara como una botija.
Crows and bats came out of the depths, and Sancho, crossing himself over and over, begged him not to go down like an earthenware jug.
Su amo se descolgó por el borde de aquel pozo tan hondo y estuvo abajo media hora larga.
His master let himself down over the edge of that very deep shaft and stayed below for a good half hour.
Al subirlo tuvieron que sacudirlo, y dijo que le habían quitado la vida más sabrosa del mundo.
When they hauled him up they had to shake him, and he said they had taken him from the most delicious life in the world.
Contó que allá abajo había un palacio de cristal donde Montesinos vivía encantado con toda su parentela.
He told them that down there stood a crystal palace where Montesinos lived enchanted with all his kinfolk.
Sobre un sepulcro de mármol suspiraba Durandarte, que solo pedía paciencia y que se barajase de nuevo.
On a marble tomb Durandarte lay sighing, asking only for patience and for the cards to be shuffled again.
Si aquel palacio estuviera en la superficie, dijo, sería la mayor maravilla que se conociera en España.
If that palace were up on the surface, he said, it would be the greatest marvel known in Spain.
Una compañera de Dulcinea le pidió seis reales de préstamo sobre un faldellín de algodón nuevo.
A companion of Dulcinea’s asked him for a loan of six reales against a new cotton underskirt.
Sancho pensó que ninguna princesa empeñaría una prenda así, y que un embustero habría inventado caballos con crines de plata.
Sancho thought no princess would pawn a garment like that, and that a liar would have invented horses with silver manes.
En una venta entró maese Pedro, vestido de gamuza, con un retablo de títeres y un mono grande sin cola.
Master Pedro came into an inn, dressed in chamois leather, with a puppet theatre and a big tailless ape.
El ventero dijo que el animal era adivino y que debía de saber lo pasado y lo presente.
The innkeeper said the animal was a fortune-teller and must know the past and the present.
Acertó que Teresa Panza estaba rastrillando lino, porque su amo se informaba en las ventas antes de llegar.
He got it right that Teresa Panza was hackling flax, because his master asked around at the inns before arriving.
Un muchacho contaba la historia con una varilla, y don Quijote le mandó que no hiciera rodeos ni contrapuntos.
A boy was telling the story with a pointer, and Don Quixote ordered him to make no roundabout turns and no embellishments.
Contó que la falda de Melisendra llegó a engancharse en un hierro del balcón.
He told how Melisendra’s skirt ended up catching on an iron bar of the balcony.
Su amo gritó que no consentiría semejante atropello y empezó a repartir cuchilladas sobre el retablo.
His master shouted that he would not allow such an outrage and started dealing sword slashes across the stage.
Descabezó moros de madera y estuvo a punto de rebanarle una oreja al titiritero, que tuvo que agacharse.
He beheaded wooden Moors and came close to slicing off an ear of the puppeteer, who had to duck in time.
El hombre gritaba desde el suelo que aquel loco lo había arruinado, mientras el mono se subía al tejado.
The man shouted from the ground that this madman had ruined him, while the ape climbed onto the roof.
El ventero hizo de tasador y Sancho fue rebajando cada muñeco roto hasta el último cuartillo.
The innkeeper acted as valuer and Sancho knocked the price of each broken figure down to the last quarter real.
Don Quijote pagó cuarenta reales sin rechistar, porque creía haber acudido a socorrer a gente de verdad.
Don Quixote paid forty reales without a murmur, because he believed he had gone to the aid of real people.
Dos días después la corriente del Ebro se llevó su barca, y Sancho oyó rebuznar al rucio desde la orilla.
Two days later the current of the Ebro carried off their boat, and Sancho heard the donkey bray from the bank.
Tal vez estuvieran pasando la línea equinoccial, dijo su amo, porque según los cosmógrafos allí se mueren de golpe los piojos.
Perhaps they were crossing the equator, said his master, because according to the cosmographers lice all die at once there.
Río abajo aparecieron unas aceñas, y los molineros salieron con pértigas, blancos de harina hasta las cejas.
Downstream some watermills appeared, and the millers came out with long poles, white with flour up to their eyebrows.
La barca se metió entre las ruedas, volcó, y los sacaron a los dos remojados y sin sombrero.
The boat went in among the wheels, capsized, and they pulled the two of them out soaked and hatless.
Quizá fueran dos encantadores contrarios, dijo el caballero, aunque aquel día el río bajaba muy deprisa.
Perhaps there were two opposing enchanters, said the knight, although that day the river was running very fast.
Vocabulary
Camacho’s wedding (lesson 67)
- la enramada
- the leafy arbour
- el convidado
- the guest
- el puchero
- the stewpot
- el ganso
- the goose
- la caldera
- the cauldron
- la masa
- the dough
- el danzante
- the dancer
- la dote
- the dowry
- el compromiso
- the engagement
- criarse
- to grow up
- arrepentirse
- to have second thoughts
Basilio’s trick (lesson 68)
- el estoque
- the rapier
- el bastón
- the walking staff
- el pomo
- the pommel
- la hoja
- the blade
- el canuto
- the tube
- el moribundo
- the dying man
- la viudez
- widowhood
- estorbar
- to get in the way of
- burlado
- tricked, made a fool of
- apagado
- faint
- el altar
- the altar
- ensayado
- rehearsed
- el anillo
- the ring
Going down into the cave (lesson 69)
- la soga
- the rope
- la zarza
- the bramble
- el murciélago
- the bat
- el cuervo
- the crow
- la botija
- the earthenware jug
- santiguarse
- to cross yourself
- sacudir
- to shake
- sabroso
- delicious
- el borde
- the edge
- el agujero
- the hole
- hondo
- deep
Dulcinea’s six reales (lesson 70)
- el sepulcro
- the tomb
- el mármol
- marble
- la parentela
- the kinfolk
- la superficie
- the surface
- el faldellín
- the underskirt
- empeñar
- to pawn
- el préstamo
- the loan
- la prenda
- the pledge, the garment
- el embustero
- the liar
- la crin
- the mane
- barajar
- to shuffle the cards
- el cristal
- crystal, glass
Master Pedro’s puppet show (lesson 71)
- el títere
- the puppet
- la gamuza
- chamois leather
- el adivino
- the fortune-teller
- la varilla
- the pointer
- el rodeo
- the roundabout way
- el contrapunto
- the embellishment
- rastrillar
- to comb, to hackle
- engancharse
- to catch on something
- la cola
- the tail
Paying for the broken puppets (lesson 72)
- el atropello
- the outrage
- la cuchillada
- the sword slash
- descabezar
- to behead
- rebanar
- to slice off
- agacharse
- to duck
- el muñeco
- the figure, the doll
- el tasador
- the valuer
- rebajar
- to knock the price down
- el cuartillo
- the quarter real
- rechistar
- to murmur a protest
- socorrer
- to come to the aid of
- el tejado
- the roof
- arruinar
- to ruin
- el titiritero
- the puppeteer
The boat on the Ebro (lesson 73)
- rebuznar
- to bray
- el piojo
- the louse
- el cosmógrafo
- the cosmographer
- la línea equinoccial
- the equator
- la aceña
- the river watermill
- el molinero
- the miller
- la pértiga
- the long pole
- la harina
- flour
- volcar
- to capsize
- remojado
- soaked
- la rueda
- the wheel
- la corriente
- the current
Lessons 67 to 73 in one table
Start with the vocabulary above. It is seven lists in a row, more than any earlier review, because these seven lessons are the last stretch the two of them travel on their own. Cover the English column and mark every word you cannot turn into English in about three seconds.
| point | rule | from the summary above |
|---|---|---|
| para que, a fin de que | two different subjects, subjunctive behind | para que los convidados comiesen a la sombra |
| para plus infinitive | one subject only, no que and no subjunctive | salió a socorrer a gente de verdad |
| aunque plus indicative | a fact you are treating as known | aunque el padre prefirió un novio con dote |
| aunque plus subjunctive | something supposed, or something you brush aside | aunque hubiera querido a Quiteria desde niño |
| imperfect subjunctive | in -ra or in -se, and the two forms mean the same | que sacara del puchero, que comiesen a la sombra |
| si plus imperfect subjunctive | what is not the case, with a conditional behind it | Si aquel palacio estuviera en la superficie, sería la mayor maravilla. |
| reported orders | mandar or pedir que, plus a past subjunctive | le mandó que no hiciera rodeos |
| deber de plus infinitive | a guess, never an obligation | debía de saber lo pasado y lo presente |
| quizá, tal vez | subjunctive when the doubt is real | Tal vez estuvieran pasando la línea equinoccial. |
| set phrases | they travel whole, and word by word they fall apart | pagó sin rechistar, estuvo a punto de rebanarle una oreja |
The full conjugations are in the verb tables at the back of the book.