ACTIVIDAD A: Foreign Languages for Travelershttp://www.travlang.com/languages/index.html
Have you ever traveled abroad to a country whose language you didn't speak? Do you remember the lengths to which you had to go to "survive" and make yourself understood? Look at the first page of
Foreign Languages for Travelers, a Web site developed to help travelers prepare to interact in a new language. The purpose of this Web site is to provide people who are traveling abroad essential "survival" vocabulary in the language(s) spoken in a great number of destinations worldwide. It contains brief bilingual lists of phrases. In addition, the visitor to this site can find out how each phrase is pronounced by just clicking on the words. At the end, the visitor can take quizzes to check his or her knowledge of the basic travel-related vocabulary provided.
Follow the instructions at the Web site to access
Español para viajeros.
1. In how many countries is Spanish officially spoken?
To give you some additional practice with essential vocabulary from Lección 1, click on
Basic Words (then click on
Submit). Don't forget to click on the underlined words to hear them repeated for you in Spanish.
What are the Spanish equivalents for the English phrases indicated below?
2. Thank you very much.
3. You're welcome.
4. I do not understand.
5. Where is the bathroom?
Now, click on
Numbers (then click on
Submit).
6. Tres + siete =
7. Diez + ocho =
8. Veinte + cinco =
9. Cuarenta + sesenta =
Finally, click on
Time and Dates (then click on
Submit).
10. How do you say "What time is it?" in Spanish?
ACTIVIDAD B: Telefónica Españolahttp://www.telefonica.es
On-line telephone directories provide a convenient way for people to look up telephone numbers when a published telephone directory is not available. The
Telefónica Española Web site is useful to find telephone numbers of people and businesses in Spain. It even has a link to other on-line telephone directories for a number of other countries in the world.
If you tried to look for the telephone number of someone in Spain, you would notice that people in Spanish-speaking countries generally use two last names, the first being the father's family name and the second the mother's family (maiden) name. It is an interesting way to preserve the mother's family name for an additional generation.
Click on the
Páginas Blancas link in the column
on the right under
Utilidades and then answer
the questions below according to the information contained within
the Web site.
11. What two (2) items of information must you provide in order to look up someone's telephone number?
12. True or false? In order to look up someone's telephone number, you must provide both last names.
True
False
13. What optional piece of data might you also supply to facilitate the search?
14. Do you actually know anyone in Spain? If so, try looking up his/her name online? If not, use a name from somewhere in ¿Cómo se dice?. Be sure to click
Buscar in order to activate the search. Did you find a person with that name?
