📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 24 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 5 · El mundo laboral
La reunión
Module 9 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 24 of 30: Meeting language is a register of its own. On this page: 10 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
el orden del día
the agenda
ehl OHR-dehn dehl DEE-ah
la sesión
the session
lah seh-SYOHN
hacer balance
to take stock
ah-SEHR bah-LAHN-seh
si me permiten
if I may
see meh pehr-MEE-tehn
el actafeminine — takes el before its stressed a, like el agua
the minutes
ehl AHK-tah
intervenir
to speak up
een-tehr-beh-NEER
aplazar
to postpone
ah-plah-SAR
breve
brief
BREH-beh
todos
everyone / all
TOH-dohs
yo enviaré el acta mañana
I will send the minutes tomorrow
yoh ehn-byah-REH ehl AHK-tah mah-NYAH-nah
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
Meeting language is a register of its own. Abrir la sesión (open the meeting), el orden del día (the agenda), hacer balance (take stock), tomar una decisión, aplazar (postpone). El acta is the minutes — feminine, but it takes el, like el agua.
Y también · And also
To join in: si me permiten, quisiera añadir un punto; vuelvo a lo que se dijo antes. That last one is the relative from Unit 4 doing professional work. Enviaré el acta mañana — I will send the minutes tomorrow: the futuro of enviar, with its accent on the í in the present (envío) but not here.
Ojo · Watch out
el acta is feminine — el acta larga, las actas — and takes el only in the singular, like el agua. el orden del día is the agenda; breve means brief; and aplazar is to postpone, not to applaud.
enviar, futuro — the table
yo enviaré · tú enviarás · él/ella/usted enviará · nosotros enviaremos · ustedes enviarán · ellos/ellas enviarán
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el orden del día.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out enviar, futuro 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.