Getting around - Lesson 4 -
Self-evaluation Quiz:
¡Taxi, taxi!
(Taxi! Taxi!)
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SITUATION 1: You walk out the front door of your hotel and see a cab at the taxi stand. Ask the cabdriver if he is free.
SITUATION 2: Ask your friend, Manolo, if he is free this weekend.
SITUATION 3: Tell the cabdriver: "To the Meliá Hotel, please."
SITUATION 4: How would you say to a cabdriver; "Only one small suitcase"?
SITUATION 5: You have flagged down a taxi. The driver asks whether you have any suitcases. Tell him in Spanish: "No, I don't have any luggage."
SITUATION 6: Someone is driving you to the base and you're running late. How do you ask him if he can go a little faster?
SITUATION 7: You have asked a Spaniard a question and you have trouble understanding his answer. How would you ask him to speak slower?
SITUATION 8: How would you ask a cabdriver to stop at the next corner?
SITUATIONS 9-10: AUDIO ONLY
Key
to Self-evaluation Quiz
1.
¿Está libre?
2.
Manolo, ¿estás
libre este fin de semana?
3.
Al Hotel
Meliá, por favor.
4.
Sólo una
maleta pequeña.
5.
No, no tengo
equipaje.
6.
¿Puede ir un
poco más rápido?
7.
¿Puede hablar
más despacio, por favor?
8.
Pare en la
próxima esquina, por favor.
9. I cannot go faster. I am sorry. ("No puedo ir más rápido lo
siento.")
10. Five hundred and seventy pesetas. ("Quinientas setenta pesetas.")