Instituto Cervantes 03_10

Question 1

1a. puede PARTIR también DE una moda que CONVENDRÍA + PONER EN ENTREDICHO
1b. partir de = to be based on
1c. convenir = to be a good idea, to be advisable
1d. poner en entredicho = to call into Q
2. Este tipo de prácticas obtienen su SINGULARIDAD porque …

Answer 1

1a. could also BE BASED on a a fashion that WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA + TO CALL INTO QUESTION
1b explain vb - to be based on
1c. explain loc vb - to be a good idea not deber)
1d. explain loc vb - to call into question (loc vb)
2. This type of practice GETS its UNIQUENESS because … (vb NOT conseguir)

Question 2

1. Arriesgar la salud propia POR OBTENER una mayor popularidad no SALE A CUENTA (salir a cuenta)
2. sino que también las PROTAGONIZARON mayores (protagonizar)
   3a. Aquí en España, Pantallas Amigas lanzó un DECÁLOGO bajo su campaña …
   3b. el Decálogo = the Ten Commandments
3. La qente que me conoce poco SE HACE UNA IDEA EQUIVOCADA de mí.

Answer 2

1. Risking one’s health FOR THE SAKE OF greater popularity ISn’t WORTH IT. (loc vb = to produce a net benefit)
2. but older people also STAR IN … (not pero) (vb - to star in)
   3a. Here in Spain, Pantallas Amigas launched a DO’s AND DON’TS/GUIDE under its campaign …
3. People who don’t know me very well GET THE WRONG IDEA about me

Question 3

1. pueden ser las prioridades VITALES + DE CADA UNO
   2a. Estoy pensando que Elvi en este periodo ANDA CON mucho estrés
   2b. ,POR LO QUE no quiero MAREARle también con esto
   2c.Vale, hablaré con ella a ver
   3 buscar los pros y los contras DE algo = to look for the pros and cons

Answer 3

1. they could be the LIFE priorities OF EACH (AND EVERY) ONE (adj = think v impt)
   2a. I’m thinking that Elvi IS UNDER a lot of stress during this period. (collq) (Cristina)
   2b. , THEREFORE I don’t want TO BOTHER her with this also (collq) (not por lo tanto)
   2c. I will talk to her to see (ie what she wants to do)
   3a loc verb = buscar + cons = means?

Question 4

Three ways to SOFTEN an assertion:
1a. Al paracer (it seems) + según parece (apparently, it seems) + a lo que parece + inf(ser) (what appears/seems + to be)
1b. to idicate that we have indirect knowledge (seen, read or heard s.th)
1c. Beg, middle or end of sentence + usually separated by comma
2a. use vb in the conditional
2b. To distance ourselves from the submission by making it hypothetical
3a. de alguna manera (somehow) + en cierto sentido (in some way)
3b indicate that what we’re asserting is approximate or not wholly true.

Answer 4

Tres maneras de ATENUAR una aserción:

1a. 3 parecer expressions
1b. How does it atenuar?
1c. Structure use with expression
2a. How use vb tense para atenuar?
2b. How does it atenuar?
3a. 2 expressions start de + en
3b. How do they atenuar?

Question 5

1a. con toda probabilidad + con toda sefuridad
1b. To indicate a high degree of certainty re assertion
2a. sin (ninguna) duda + sin (ningun) género de duda (quite clearly)
2b. To indicate total certainty re assertion
3a. es evidente que + está claro que = it’s clear that
3b. We present our assertion as an evident fact
4a. de hecho + no en vano (in fact) + en efecto + en el fondo (ultimately + at heart)
4b. To introduce an arg that reinforces the earlier statement

Answer 5

Cuatro maneras para reforzar una aserción (usa con commas)

1a. 2 con expressions
1b. How do they reinforce?
2a. 2 sin expressions
2b. How do they reinforce?
3a. 2 es or está expressions
3b. How do they reinforce?
4a. 3 en + 1 de expression
4b. How do they reinforce?

Question 6

1. A JUICIO los inquilinos que PRESUNTAMENTE ACOSARON a Esther
2. Empieza el juicio de la PROPIETARIA + INCREPADA por Podemos (increpar = 1. to rebuke or tell off + 2. to abuse, ie insult
3. pide un año DE cárcel PARA ellos dos POR UN delito de COACCIONES (coaccionar = to coerce)
4. hasta que Irene Montero de Podemos la “LINCHARA púlblicamente” (linchar)
5. las ocuparon, cargando con PANCARTAS que TILDABAN a la proprietaria DE “especuladora” (tildar de)

Answer 6

1. The tenants who ALLEGEDLY HARASSED Esther GO ON TRIAL (clue - word order is diff + this is a header)
2. The trial of the LANDLADY + ABUSED VERBALLY by Podemos
3. She is asking FOR 1 year in jail FOR the 2 of them FOR THE crime of COERCION (N-> vb)(clue: 3 diff preps = for)
4. until Irene Montero of Podemos “publicly LYNCHED” her (vb)
5. they occupied them [the offices], carrying BANNERS BRANDING the landlady as a “speculator” (vb = to brand, stigmatise)