Saber - Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish, Second Edition (2015)

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish, Second Edition (2015)

Part VIII

37. Saber

Conjugation of saber

saber to know information

Traducción simple

  1. I know your name. _____________________________
  2. I know a lot. _____________________________
  3. I don’t know anything. _____________________________
  4. You know the answer(la respuesta). _____________________________
  5. She knows all the answers. _____________________________
  6. Do you know the answer?_____________________________
  7. We don’t know a lot. _____________________________
  8. You all know the name of the book. _____________________________

¿Verdadero o falso?

  1. ______ El médico sabe mucho de la anatomía y los órganos internos.
  2. ______ La actriz no sabe nada de los dramas de William Shakespeare.
  3. ______ El principal no sabe nada de la escuela.
  4. ______ El dentista sabe mucho de la boca.
  5. ______ La joyera sabe mucho de los rubís y las esmeraldas.
  6. ______ El granjero no sabe nada de las plantas y los animales.
  7. ______ La escritora sabe mucho de la gramática.
  8. ______ El químico sabe mucho de los elementos y la ciencia.
  9. ______ El carpintero no sabe nada de los muebles.

¿Estas personas saben mucho de qué? (What do these persons know a lot about?) Match each person with the appropriate area of expertise.

Traducción compleja

  1. I’m sad because I have a gift for Jorge and I know that he doesn’t want it.
  2. He doesn’t know that we go to Canada every winter and summer.
  3. Do you know why the squirrels(las ardillas) prefer to live in those trees?
  4. Do you know who has the money and where he hides it?

Traducción: Saber + infinitive (Translation: To know how + to do something)

  1. I know how to speak Spanish. __________________________________
  2. You know how to read. __________________________________
  3. He knows how to dance. __________________________________
  4. She knows how to sing. __________________________________
  5. We know how to count to(hasta) one million. __________________________________
  6. You all know how to fly. __________________________________
  7. They don’t know how to hang up the telephone. __________________________________
  8. I don’t know how to close this door. __________________________________
  9. Do you know how to close that window?__________________________________

¿A, B o C? Pretend that each person is alive, and choose the correct response.