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🇲🇽 Spanish · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 25 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

It Could Have Been Worse

The morning after the storm, the beach in Puerto Escondido is covered in branches, and the only road home over the mountains is closed by a landslide. Say it could have been worse, say what would have happened if you hadn't done something, talk about damage, offer to help clean up, and call work and school to say you can't come.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

It's Monday, the seventeenth of August. The sun is out over Puerto Escondido as if nothing had happened, but the beach is covered in branches, palm leaves and plastic, and half the town is outside with brooms and rakes. Sarah and Julian walk down to Mateo's surf school, where Don Chuy is already talking to him. Today, they were supposed to go home. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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ramasRRAH-mahsbranches
llenaYEH-nahfull, of something feminine
Está llena de ramas.ehs-TAH YEH-nah deh RRAH-mahsIt's full of branches.
Pudo haber sido peor.POO-doh ah-BEHR SEE-doh peh-OHRIt could have been worse.
Si no hubiéramos cerradosee noh oo-bee-EH-rah-mohs seh-RRAH-dohIf we hadn't closed
se habrían rotoseh ah-BREE-ahn RROH-tohthey would have broken
los dañoslohs DAH-nyohsthe damage
huboOO-bohthere was
¿Hubo muchos daños?OO-boh MOO-chohs DAH-nyohsWas there much damage?
techosTEH-chohsroofs

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