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🇪🇸 Spanish · Advanced Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Whether You Like It or Not

At midnight on the last night of the April Fair, the whole family watches the fireworks from the riverbank in Triana, and Sarah looks back on a year she couldn't have imagined. Then the lights of the Fair go out. Say it's only just started!, it always ends too soon, I'm exhausted, it's done me in, whether you like it or not, until next year, who knows?, that's for sure, and review everything from this level.

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THE STORY

It's Saturday May 6th, the last night of the April Fair, a few minutes before midnight. The Fair ends the way it began, with light - fireworks over the river. The whole family has found a spot on the riverbank in Triana - Sarah and Julian, her parents, Emily, Encarna on a folding chair that Manolo carried from the bar. An hour later, the lights of the Fair go out, and Emily asks a question nobody can answer yet. Tomorrow morning, Sarah's family flies home. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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¿Ya se acaba?yah seh ah-KAH-bahIt's ending already?
acaba de empezarah-KAH-bah deh ehm-peh-SAHRhas just started
¡Pero si acaba de empezar!PEH-roh see ah-KAH-bah deh ehm-peh-SAHRBut it's only just started!
siempre se acaba demasiado prontosee-EHM-preh seh ah-KAH-bah deh-mah-see-AH-doh PROHN-tohalways ends too soon
Para mí no.PAH-rah mee nohNot for me.
Estoy agotado.ehs-TOY ah-goh-TAH-dohI'm exhausted.
Ni que hubieras bailado toda la semana.nee keh oo-bee-EH-rahs bah-ee-LAH-doh TOH-dah lah seh-MAH-nahAs if you'd danced all week.
Me ha dejado para el arrastre.meh ah deh-HAH-doh PAH-rah ehl ah-RRAHS-trehIt's done me in.
¡Los fuegos!lohs FWEH-gohsThe fireworks!
Qué año.keh AH-nyohWhat a year.

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