Level A2 · Chapter 30.5
Review 6: lessons 26 to 30
The vocabulary from lessons 26 to 30 that does not come back, the grammar of the block in one table, and two exercises.
What you will learn
- Check, word by word, how much of the vocabulary from lessons 26 to 30 you actually remember.
- Use the accidental se, the possessives and the demonstratives without translating from English.
- Say what hurts with the verb doler, which works back to front.
The story in easy Spanish
En aquel entierro todos iban de luto y lloraban al estudiante muerto.
At that burial everyone was in mourning and weeping for the dead student.
Marcela apareció de pronto sobre una roca alta y pidió permiso para hablar.
Marcela appeared suddenly on top of a high rock and asked leave to speak.
Dijo que ella no tenía la culpa de aquella muerte amarga.
She said that she was not to blame for that bitter death.
Nadie le prohibió nada, y después se marchó al monte sola.
Nobody forbade her anything, and afterwards she went off into the hills alone.
Dos días más tarde, Rocinante entró en un prado de hierba verde.
Two days later, Rocinante wandered into a meadow of green grass.
Allí había una recua de yeguas con sus arrieros gallegos.
There was a train of mares there with their Galician muleteers.
Una yegua le dio una coz y los arrieros sacaron las estacas.
One mare kicked him and the muleteers pulled out their stakes.
Apalearon a los tres y les rompieron la cincha del caballo.
They beat all three of them and broke the horse’s girth.
Aquella noche durmieron en un camaranchón de la venta.
That night they slept in a garret at the inn.
La moza Maritornes tenía una cita con un arriero.
The serving girl Maritornes had an appointment with a muleteer.
A oscuras, don Quijote la cogió de la muñeca y no la soltó.
In the dark, Don Quixote caught her by the wrist and would not let go.
El arriero le dio un puñetazo y la cama se hundió.
The muleteer punched him and the bed collapsed.
El ventero apagó la vela y todo el mundo gritó en la oscuridad.
The innkeeper put out the candle and everybody shouted in the dark.
Un cuadrillero subió con su vara y encontró al caballero sin sentido.
An officer came up with his staff and found the knight unconscious.
Don Quijote creía que aquel desván era un castillo con tesoro.
Don Quixote believed that that loft was a castle with treasure in it.
Hablaba de una doncella encantada que lo esperaba en un rincón.
He kept talking about an enchanted maiden who was waiting for him in a corner.
Por la mañana le dolía todo el cuerpo, del hombro al estómago.
In the morning his whole body ached, from his shoulder to his stomach.
Preparó su bálsamo, lo bebió y vomitó.
He made up his balm, drank it and was sick.
Sudó mucho, durmió y aquel dolor se le pasó del todo.
He sweated a great deal, slept, and that pain left him completely.
Vocabulary
Marcela defends herself (lesson 26)
- el entierro
- the burial
- el luto
- the mourning
- la roca
- the rock
- amargo / amarga
- bitter
- el permiso
- the permission, leave
- marcharse
- to go off, to leave
- prohibir
- to forbid
The Yanguesans (lesson 27)
- el prado
- the meadow
- la yegua
- the mare
- la hierba
- the grass
- la estaca
- the stake, the cudgel
- la cincha
- the girth of a saddle
- apalear
- to beat with a stick
- la coz
- the kick of an animal
The inn by night (lesson 28)
- el camaranchón
- the garret, the loft room
- la moza
- the serving girl
- la vela
- the candle
- la muñeca
- the wrist
- el puñetazo
- the punch
- hundirse
- to collapse, to sink
- la cita
- the appointment, the date
The enchanted castle (lesson 29)
- el cuadrillero
- the country constable
- la vara
- the staff of office
- el desván
- the loft
- el encantamiento
- the enchantment
- el tesoro
- the treasure
- la doncella
- the maiden
- el rincón
- the corner of a room
The balm (lesson 30)
- el estómago
- the stomach
- el dolor
- the pain
- doler
- to hurt, to ache
- vomitar
- to be sick, to vomit
- sudar
- to sweat
Lessons 26 to 30 in one table
The vocabulary list above comes first, as always. Cover the English, read the Spanish aloud, mark whatever does not come back inside three seconds. Then read the table, which is an index and not a lesson.
| point | rule | from the summary above |
|---|---|---|
| ya, todavía, aún | what has changed and what is still going on | Todavía iban de luto. |
| acabar de | acabar de plus the infinitive, for what has just happened | Acababa de hablar sobre la roca. |
| accidental se | se plus me, te, le, and nobody is to blame for it | Se le rompió la cincha. |
| weak possessive | mi, tu, su, always in front of the noun | sus arrieros gallegos |
| strong possessive | mío, tuyo, suyo, after the noun or standing alone | Aquella vela era suya. |
| demonstratives | este here, ese there, aquel over there, and all three agree | aquel desván, aquella noche |
| doler | built like gustar: the aching part is the subject | Le dolía todo el cuerpo. |
| the body | takes the article, never the possessive | la muñeca, el hombro, el estómago |
The full conjugations are in the verb tables at the back of the book.