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Organizar por ideas
Module 15 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 2 of 30: The rule that decides the mark: organize by IDEA, never by document. 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
la cuadrícula
the grid
lah kwah-DREE-koo-lah
escribir a partir de las filas
to write from the rows
ehs-kree-BEER ah par-TEER deh lahs FEE-lahs
una idea por párrafo
one idea per paragraph
OO-nah ee-DEH-ah pohr PAH-rrah-foh
resumir cuatro veces
to summarize four times
rreh-soo-MEER KWAH-troh BEH-sehs
la columna
the column
lah koh-LOOM-nah
la fila
the row
lah FEE-lah
tocar un punto
to touch on a point
toh-KAR oon POON-toh
decisivo
decisive
deh-see-SEE-boh
nosotros resolvemos el plan
we settle the plan
noh-SOH-trohs rreh-sohl-BEH-mohs ehl plahn
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
The rule that decides the mark: organize by IDEA, never by document. A plan that reads "text one says, text two says" has summarized four times and synthesized nothing.
Y también · And also
Build a grid instead — ideas down the side, texts across the top — and write from the rows. Each paragraph then carries one idea and cites whichever texts touch it.
Ojo · Watch out
Organize by IDEA, never by document: a plan that reads el texto 1 dice…, el texto 2 dice… has summarized four times and synthesized nothing. la fila is the row and la columna the column — write from the rows.
resolver, presente — the table
yo resuelvo · tú resuelves · él/ella/usted resuelve · nosotros resolvemos · ustedes resuelven · ellos/ellas resuelven
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la cuadrícula.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out resolver, 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.