Visit someone or visit TO someone? Phone a friend or phone TO a friend?

Spanish students often use TO after a verb and before the direct object because they are translating the Spanish preposition "a". But it's usually wrong. Find out why.

Translation: key and comments

These are the answers to the translation exercise.

A lot of friends came home

Listen to this and remember:
Home is a tricky word!
You cannot finish a sentence saying A LOT OF.
DON'T has the same vowel sound as NO.

Would you like to...? It depends

When do you say do you like and when would you like?
Be careful with DEPEND.
OR doesn't always mean "o"!
Listen.

Student's book p. 18

If you want, you can listen to me reading the texts on p. 18.

Student's book p.16

Here are the answers to some exercises on page 16 of your student's book.

Shall I tell your sister? (October 14th)

SHALL I...? Y SHALL WE...? para proponer, sugerir, ofrecerse a hacer algo.
Be careful with the pronunciation of YOUR!
Some phrases heard in a sandwich bar.
Listen.

I was born on the 2nd of May

Algunos os liáis con la expresión "nacer" y con la manera de decir la fecha correctamente. He aquí un recordatorio.

Lío de países

What is the difference between the United Kingdom and Britain? Are Scottish people British? Are they English?
No se ocurra decirle a un galés o a un escocés que vaya vergüenza para su país tener los forofos de fútbol que tienen, los famosos hooligans. Habréis metido la pata y además se sentirán ofendidos. A ver si esto os aclara por qué. En el cuadro de la izquierda, donde dice "view the book", tenéis que pinchar en DOC.

There was one who was married to a famous manager (October 11th)

There are two recordings:
1- This is about MARRIED TO and possessive pronouns.
2- This is about how to pronounce the ending -OUS. The word MANAGER. There is /was / are / were: no hay que acentuar el verbo.
Listen.

They aren't from Spain. I'm here to see Mr Half (October 6th)

Infinitivo de finalidad: para hacer algo = to do something (no usamos FOR).
Palabras que empiezan por S + consonante: no pronunciemos una E delante.
Silent L in some words.
Pronunciation of AREN'T.
THE has two different pronunciations
AFTERNOON.
Listen. There are two recordings. It's the second one.

What's it like? What does it mean? (October 4th)

¿Cómo pedimos a alguien que nos describa su habitación o a su hermano? Usando la misma fórmula que para preguntar qué tal tiempo hace: What + BE + like?
Be careful (=ten cuidado) with the word order in questions with ordinary verbs: auxiliary + subject + verb.
Difficult pronunciation: the sound /v/, favourite, parents, initial TH of they and other words. The sound of Thursday, work, purse, first, etc.
Listen.

Test (September 29th)

Which is correct: I have cereal for breakfast, I have for breakfast cereal or I have cereal breakfast?
How do you say deja de hacer tal cosa?
When do you use what about...?
I'd like is different from I like.
What's armario in English?
Listen and find out [escucha y averígua(lo)]

Respuestas al test

In September we did a little test. You can hear the answers here . Se debería abrir otra ventana.



The sound quallity is not very good (it was my first time). I'm sorry.