Entrevista con Arturo Pérez Reverte: use imperfect and preterite together | Spanish

Starter quiz

Match the Spanish and English.

nada

⇔

nothing, anything ✓

papel

⇔

role ✓

equilibrado

⇔

balanced ✓

perdido

⇔

lost ✓

cosa

⇔

thing ✓

importar

⇔

to be important ✓
Match the Spanish and English.

referirse

⇔

to refer, referring ✓

enamorarse de

⇔

to fall in love with, falling in love with ✓

población

⇔

population ✓

desaparecer

⇔

to disappear, disappearing ✓

desear

⇔

to want, wanting (formal) ✓

contar

⇔

to tell, telling ✓
What is 'you used to eat' in Spanish?

comía

comías ✓

comí

comiste
If 'querer' means 'to want, wanting', what is 'I used to want' in Spanish? ______

'quería' ✓
Which infinitives are modal verbs?

beber

querer ✓

poder ✓

tener que ✓

vender
Which verbs are in the preterite tense?

ayudé ✓

ayudaste ✓

ayudaba

ayudó ✓

ayudabas

Match the Spanish and English.

pérdida

⇔

loss ✓

no obstante

⇔

however, nevertheless ✓

conclusión

⇔

conclusion ✓

ningún

⇔

no, not ... any ✓

salud

⇔

health ✓

transgénero

⇔

transgender ✓
Match up the verbs.

aprendíamos

⇔

we used to learn ✓

aprendíais

⇔

you (pl) used to learn ✓

aprendían

⇔

they used to learn ✓
What is the Spanish for 'they used to be able to'? ______

'podían' ✓
Complete the sentence with the 1st person imperfect form of 'ver'. ______ mucha pobreza en mi comunidad.

'veía' ✓
What should you avoid doing when answering reading comprehension questions?

locating relevant vocabulary in the text

making an educated guess at the meanings of unknown words

translating as much of the text as possible ✓
In what order would the words below appear in this text? __________ perdido y no __________ nada. __________ y un soldado me __________.

1

⇔

estaba

2

⇔

veía

3

⇔

grité

4

⇔

ayudó

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The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural imperfect endings of regular -er and -ir verbs are -íamos, -íais and -ían.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural imperfect forms of ‘ver’ are ‘veíamos’, ‘veíais’ and ‘veían’.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect endings of regular -ar verbs are -aba, -abas and -aba.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect endings of regular -er and -ir verbs are -ía, -ías, and -ía.
Regular preterite tense endings are: -é, -aste, -ó for -ar verbs; and -í, -iste, -ió for -er and -ir verbs.

When answering reading comprehension questions, you should translate as much of the text as possible in the hope of including the correct answer.

You should make sure that your answers to reading comprehension questions are specific by locating relevant vocabulary in the text before responding.

Imperfect - verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly
Preterite - verb tense used to talk about something completed in the past