Lección 5 página 2

Listen and repeat the following expressions.


Cerca near		Lejos far		Aquí here		Allí there		Enfrente opposite

de + el = del

Ej. Está enfrente ~~de el~~ hospital = Está enfrente del hospital

Eg. It's opposite the hospital

Write full sentences. Follow the example.

parada autobús / enfrente / hospital
catedral / al lado / banco
oficina de turismo / cerca / parque
museo / lejos / gasolinera
farmacia / cerca / hotel
estación de tren / lejos / iglesia
cabina de teléfono / enfrente / farmacia
museo / al lado / oficina de turismo

Listen and repeat the previous sentences.

Listen and repeat the following expressions.


Hace frío It's cold	Hace calor It's hot	Llueve It's raining	Hace viento It's windy	Nieva It's snowing

Hace buen tiempo It's nice weather	Hace mal tiempo It's bad weather	Hay tormenta There's a storm	Está nublado It's cloudy	Hace sol It's sunny

Listen to the weather man and write what the weather's like in the following regions of Spain.

Galicia:
Andalucía:
Cataluña:
Asturias:
Aragón:
Valencia:

Verbs which talk about the weather in Spanish are impersonal. They are only conjugated in the third person singular.

Hace frío ... Hace calor ... Hace viento... Hace buen tiempo... etc.

Llover (to rain) llueve (It's raining) / Nevar (to snow) nieva (It's snowing)

In Spanish, a word can sometimes have different meanings.


Un reloj mide el paso del tiempo (tiempo cronológico) A clock measures the passing of time		Un termómetro nos ayuda a conocer el estado del tiempo (tiempo atmosférico) A thermometer helps us to know what the weather is like.		Banco En un banco guardamos nuestro dinero. We keep our money in a bank.		Banco Un banco en el parque sirve para sentarnos. A bench in a park is used to sit on.

Quantifiers (nada - nothing, poco - little/not much, bastante - enough/quite a lot, mucho - a lot (of), demasiado - too much) are used to express the quantity or intensity of the meaning of a noun, adjective or verb.


No llueve nada	Llueve poco	Llueve bastante	Llueve mucho	Llueve demasiado
-	+	+ +	+ + +	+ + + +

Listen and repeat the previous expressions.

Write the words in the correct order to make a sentence. Follow the example.

· pocas manzanas mesa en Hay la
· verano hace En mucho Andalucía calor en
· ciudad demasiados en coches la Hay
· mucho En nieva Rusia invierno en
· nada Sahara llueve En el no
· farmacia Hay aquí una de cerca
· enfrente gasolinera banco un Hay de la

Listen to the following words which begin with or contain the letter "h".


Habitación		Hierba		Hoy		Almohada

The "h" is not pronounced in Spanish.

The letter "h" can go at the beginning or in the middle of a word (not at the end).

When the "h" is preceded by the letter "c" they form the sound "ch" (che) which is often listed separately in Spanish dictionaries.

Some Spanish dictionaries do not include the letter "ch" as a separate letter entry. In which case the words that begin with "ch" can be found listed in their corresponding alphabetical order under the letter "c". The same is also true of the letter "ll".

'Hoy' means today. Yesterday is called 'Ayer' and tomorrow in Spanish is 'Mañana'.

Listen to the following words with the sound "ch".


Chocolate		Cheque		Flechas		Cachalote

Write the sentences you hear. Use the pause button on your media player to give you time to write.

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