📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 15 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 3 · El estilo indirecto en pasado
Un párrafo en estilo indirecto
Module 9 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 15 of 30: Now put it together. 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
explicó que estaba cansado
he explained that he was tired
ehks-plee-KOH keh ehs-TAH-bah kahn-SAH-doh
respondí que entendía
I replied that I understood
rrehs-pohn-DEE keh ehn-tehn-DEE-ah
el intercambio
the exchange
ehl een-tehr-KAHM-byoh
el diálogo
the dialogue
ehl DYAH-loh-goh
enlazar
to link up
ehn-lah-SAR
variar
to vary
bah-RYAR
la repetición
the repetition
lah rreh-peh-tee-SYOHN
fluido
flowing (m)
FLWEE-doh
ella quería venir
she wanted to come
EH-yah keh-REE-ah beh-NEER
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
Now put it together. Take four lines of dialogue and report the whole exchange in one paragraph, with a different reporting verb each time and no quotation marks at all.
Y también · And also
Explicó que estaba cansado. Respondí que entendía. Añadió que saldría al día siguiente. Le pregunté si volvería. This is the single most examined B2 writing skill. Quería is the imperfecto of querer — what she wanted at the time.
Ojo · Watch out
Vary the reporting verb — explicar, responder, añadir, preguntar — and keep the tense shift on each one. A reported paragraph with decir four times reads as a transcript.
querer, imperfecto — the table
yo quería · tú querías · él/ella/usted quería · nosotros queríamos · ustedes querían · ellos/ellas querían
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with explicó que estaba cansado.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out querer, imperfecto 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.