📖LearnModule 15 · Lesson 12 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2 mastery — the capstoneUnit 3 · La exposición preparada
Abrir con fuerza
Module 15 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 12 of 30: You have about fifteen seconds. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
surge una pregunta sencilla
a simple question arises
SOOR-heh OO-nah preh-GOON-tah sehn-SEE-yah
nadie la responde
nobody answers it
NAH-dyeh lah rrehs-POHN-deh
abrir
to open
ah-BREER
unos segundos
a few seconds
OO-nohs seh-GOON-dohs
el segundo
the second
ehl seh-GOON-doh
saber adónde vas
to know where you are going
sah-BEHR ah-DOHN-deh bahs
fuerte desde el principio
strong from the start
FWEHR-teh DEHS-deh ehl preen-SEE-pyoh
la apertura
the opening
lah ah-pehr-TOO-rah
tú abres con fuerza
you open strongly
too AH-brehs kohn FWEHR-sah
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
You have about fifteen seconds. Do not start with voy a hablarles de — start with the thing itself: surge una pregunta sencilla, y nadie la responde.
Y también · And also
Then give the position in one sentence, and the plan in one more. Thirty seconds in, the room knows what you think and where you are going, which is the whole job of an opening.
Ojo · Watch out
Never open with voy a hablarles de…: start with the thing itself — surge una pregunta sencilla, y nadie la responde. abrir has an irregular participle, abierto; la apertura is the noun.
abrir, presente — the table
yo abro · tú abres · él/ella/usted abre · nosotros abrimos · ustedes abren · ellos/ellas abren
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with surge una pregunta sencilla.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out abrir, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.