Learning objectives:

1. Introducing and talking about yourself - 70%. Area of opportunity: pronunciation, syntaxis
2. Talking about your family 70%. Area of opportunity: Vocabulary related to the family
3. Talking about your job 60%. Area of opportunity: Vocabulary related to the world of work
4. Asking questions to another person about themselves and exchanging personal information
60%. Area of opportunity: repertoire of questions that you can ask another person about
themselves

Siphon = sifón

Adults

Arts = Letras

Spanish literature = letras hispanas

Second option

Course/degree = carrera universitaria

Career = trayectoria professional

Subjects = materias

My sister is a dental hygienist. (She cleans people’s teeth and she gives them advice on how to look
after their teeth.)

Louise

When did you start working at your current (actual) job?

When I was a student at university, I went to live with my friend. She lives near the university. We
had a party and she told me she had an apartment near the university and she invited me to live
with her. So, I decided to live with her and she charged me rent. I had a business, but that year it
rained a lot and my business went bust/bankrupt. So, I didn’t have money to pay my rent. So, I called
my sister and I asked her to employ me in her company. And I’ve been working with her for 8 or 10
years.

Invited [to invite] /Id/

Decided [to decide] /Id/

Charged [to charge = cobrar] /d/

Rained [to rain] /d/

Called [to call = llamar] /d/

Asked [to ask = preguntar/pedir] /t/

Vibration in our voice box No vibration in our voice box

/d/ /t/
/dʒ/
 /n/
/l/
/k/

Chocolate (Sp.) 4 syllables

Chocolate (Eng.) 2 syllables

What do you do in your job?

I’m a “comodín”. I charge the clients and supervise the employees. For example, I make sure the
people in the production area are working at the optimum speed (velocidad). I have to calculate the
amount of diesel and gasoline that the trucks transporting our merchandise need.

What’s the most difficult thing about your job?

My job is very repetitive. I have to write a report for my boss on the performance of different areas
of the company. This is difficult because you have to deal with (lidiar con) people and their different
interests.

What do you enjoy about your job?

The payment! And I find it interesting to see how the company works and how it is administrated.
One of the subjects I study at university is mercantile law. So, this is interesting for me.

(¿Cómo es el ambiente laboral?) = What is the work environment like?

¿Cómo es México? = What’s Mexico like?

¿Cómo eres? = What are you like?

¿Cómo estás? = How are you?

How do you do? = ¡Mucho gusto!

¿Qué te gusta? = What do you like?

It’s very difficult because I have different “bosses”. Everybody feels like they’re my boss. This creates
conflict sometimes.

Question formation

Question words:

¿Qué? = What?

¿Cuándo? = When?

¿Quién? = Who?

¿Cuál? = Which?

¿Por qué? = Why?

What do you do in your job?

Present tense = Question word + do/does + subject + verb + complement?

What do you enjoy about your job?

What’s the most difficult thing about your job?

Present tense with the verb “to be” = Question word + is/are + subject (+ complement) ?

When did you start working at your current (actual) job?

Past tense = Question word + did + subject + verb + complement?

When will we go to the movies?

Future = Question word + will + subject + verb + complement?

Are you Mexican?

Present tense with verb “to be” and no question word =

Is/are + subject + complement?

Do you like pizza?

Does he have a cellphone?

Present tense with no question word =

Do/does + subject + verb + complement?

A friend asked me to lend him money.

He wanted me to...

He wants me to deposit the money in an Oxxo.

Because his father died.

From Me to Everyone: 01:54 PM

Hi!

From Erik Retureta Cervantes to Everyone: 01:58 PM

do you like to cook?

what is your favorite book?

what do you like to eat?

when you strad to work? (normal)

when do you stard to work?

From Me to Everyone: 02:13 PM

When do you normally start work?

When I have a craving (antojo) for something/for a particular dish (platillo)?
The Lord of the Rings
I almost finished it.
noodle
noodle = fideo
rice
It's easy to destroy the rice.
Rice is diifcult to cook.
*difficult
Can you make red rice?

When is your birthday?

My birthday is 27 March/28 February.

British English = 28 February (written); “the 28 th of February” (spoken)

American English = February 28 (written); “February 28 th” (spoken)

What color doyou like?

My favorite color is yellow/black/red.

Besides Arts (letras), what other professions did you study?

I studied translation, English language teaching and marketing.

If you hadn’t studied (no hubieras estudiado) Arts, what would you have studied (hubieras
estudiado)?

I think I would have studied Education or Linguistics. / I would’ve studied Art.

What is your favorite movie and why?

I think my favorite movie is “Withnail or I” (1985, England) or “Lost in Translation” (“Perdidos en

Tokyo”, 2009, USA). I like both movies because they’re about getting older/ageing.
My favorite movie is “El Secreto de tus Ojos” (Argentina, 2010). It’s a thriller and a love story. It’s
about a detective. It’s about a crime of passion.

What kind of music do you like?

My taste is very eclectic. I like electronic music, rock, indie rock, salsa, reggaeton, House, Jazz etc.
The only music I don’t like very much is opera. I’m not a fan of opera.

I like all kinds of music: rock, salsa, and Jazz, I don’t like reggaeton or banda.

HOMEWORK 25/05/2020

Watch a clip from Young Offenders and analyze the intonation in that scene.