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Reinforce and progress

Regular practice is the key to maintaining and advancing
your language skills. In this section you will find a variety
of suggestions for reinforcing and extending your
knowledge of Spanish. Many involve returning to exercises
in the book and using the dictionaries to extend their Warm up (1minute)
scope. Go back through the lessons in a different order,
mix and match activities to make up your own 15-minute Say “he is” and “they are.”
(pp.14–15)
daily program, or focus on topics that are of particular Say “he is not” and “they
relevance to your current needs. are not.” (pp.14–15)
What is Spanish for “the
children”? (pp.10–11)
I’d like… (3 minutes)
Say “I’d like” the following: Keep warmed up
Revisit the Warm Up boxes to remind
❶ black coffee churros ❷❷ ❸ sugar yourself of key words and phrases.
❶
❸
Make sure you work your way through
all of them on a regular basis.
Review and repeat again
Work through a Review and Repeat
lesson as a way of reinforcing words
and phrases presented in the course.
Return to the main lesson for any topic
coffee with milk ❹❹
on which you are no longer confident.
In conversation: taxi (2 minutes)
Carry on conversing
Reread the In Conversation
panels. Say both parts of the
conversation, paying attention
to the pronunciation. Where
possible, try incorporating
new words from A la Plaza de España, Sí, de acuerdo, señor. ¿Me puede dejar aquí,
the dictionary. por favor. see, day akwairdo, senyoryordo, senyordo, sen por favor?
ah lah plaplathah day may pwepweday dehar ahhar ahhar kee, ,
es es es es es
espanpanyah, por fayah, por fapanyah, por fapanpanyah, por fapan bor Yes, certainly, sir. por fabor
Plaza de España, please. Can you drop me
here, please?
Useful phrases (5 minutes)
Practice these phrases and then test yourself using
the cover flap.
The room is too cold/hot. Hace demasiado frío/
calor en la habitación.
ahthay daymasyahyahthay daymasyahthay daymas doh
f freereeoh/kalor en lah lor en lah lor
abeetathyonthyon
There are no towels. No hay toallas.
noh ah-ee toh-ahyasyasahyasah Practice phrases
Return to the Useful
Phrases and Put into
Practice exercises. Test
I need some soap. Necesito jabón. yourself using the cover
netheseetoh habon flap. When you are
confident, devise your
own versions of the
phrases, using new
The shower doesn’t work. La ducha no funciona. words from the dictionary.
lah doochah noh
foonthyothyonah