7.12 Repaso: Capítulo 7
Read the review summary below to assist you in completing your Intercultural Communication assignments and to prepare for demonstrating your mastery of the Can-Do Statements.
VOCABULARIO: Las celebraciones de hoy
Artículos para las fiestas (Items for parties)
- Los globos (balloons)
- Los dulces (candies)
- Las velas (candles)
- El pastel (cake)
- El champán (champagne)
- Los bocadillos (appetizers/snacks; sandwiches in Spain)
- Los regalos (presents, gifts)
- La invitación (invitation)
- Los invitados (guests)
- El aniversario (anniversary)
- El bautizo (baptism)
- La boda (wedding)
- El cumpleaños (birthday)
- La graduación (graduation)
- Los quince años (a girl’s 15th birthday celebration)
- La quinceañera (the girl celebrating her 15th birthday)
- El día de tu santo / Tu santo (your saint’s day)
- El brindis (toast)
- El festejo (party/celebration)
- Los fuegos artificiales (fireworks)
- Los novios (bride and groom)
Verbos
- Besar (to kiss)
- Brindar (to make a toast)
- Casarse con (to marry, to get married to)
- Cumplir años (to have a birthday)
- Celebrar (to celebrate)
- Decorar (to decorate)
- Divertirse (to have fun)
- Escoger (to choose)
- Recoger (to pick up)
- Romper (to break)
- Terminar (to end)
Pretérito e Imperfecto I
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As you learned before, the imperfect is used to:
Along these same lines, the imperfect is used to describe conditions of time, people, and places in the past. The imperfect gives all the background information for when you are explaining a story. The order of events with the imperfect is often unimportant. Ejemplos:
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If the order of events is important to advance a past narration, use the preterite.
The preterite focuses on what actions happened first and last in a story. Ejemplos:
When telling a story, the preterite is used to facilitate the events. This shows that one action was completed before the next one began. You can use time expressions to indicate the order of events such as: primero (first), antes (before), después (after), luego (then), entonces (then). Ejemplos:
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Pretérito e Imperfecto II
1. A combination of imperfect with imperfect:
When you want to convey that two actions were ongoing at the same time in the past, you use the imperfect tense. You will often see the words “mientras” (while) and “y” to show that these actions were in progress simultaneously.
2. A combination of preterite with preterite:
When you want to convey a series of completed actions in the past, you use the preterit tense for each action. It is very important to state the events in order of what happened first.
3. A combination of imperfect with preterite:
When you want to show that an action was in progress when another action began, you use the imperfect for the continuous action and the preterite for the interrupting action.
