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¿Has visto el partido?

Monday at the office: two colleagues and Sunday’s match — one saw it, one did not.

A conversation about the weekend in the perfecto and the indefinido. Listen for ¿Has visto …? and for the answer with vi and fui.

Rubén

Buenos días, Irene. ¿Has visto el partido de ayer?

Irene

No, no lo he visto. Fui a ver a mis padres. ¿Qué tal?

Rubén

Muy raro. En el minuto diez ya perdíamos uno a cero.

Irene

¡Qué mal! ¿Y después?

Rubén

En la segunda parte jugamos mucho mejor. En el minuto setenta ya estábamos uno a uno.

Irene

¿Y al final?

Rubén

Al final ganamos dos a uno. ¡Y el último fue del portero!

Irene

¿Del portero? No me lo creo.

Rubén

Sí, de verdad. Fue en el último minuto. Esta tarde te lo enseño en el móvil.

More sentences on this in “Language in use”: Spanish for football

Words: 90
Sentences: 19
Words per sentence: 4.7
in the vocabulary: 100 %
measured level: A2
Reading time: 1 min

Grammar in this text

These forms appear in the text in real use. Switch on “Show grammar” above the text to highlight them.

¿Has visto el partido de ayer? · Fui a ver
¿Has visto …? asks about experience up to now; Fui a ver a mis padres tells a finished event from yesterday. Present perfect or preterite? →
no lo he visto
lo stands for the match: no lo he visto, “I haven’t seen it”. Object pronouns: lo, la, le →

The words from A2 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 13 of the 55 words in this text are at A2 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

cero
zero, nought
A2
el final
the end, the closing part
A2
el móvil
the mobile phone
A2
el partido
the match
A2
el portero
the caretaker, the porter
A2
enseñar
to teach; to show
A2
ganar
to earn; to win
A2
jugar
to play (a sport, a game)
A2
la verdad
the truth
A2
mejor
better
A2
perder
to miss; to lose
A2
raro
strange; rare
A2
último
last
A2

The word lists for this text

The words in this text appear in 16 lists on this site; the number after each says how many come from that list. Having read the text, you have just needed these very words — and can practise exactly them.

Numbers and time 8 Words for everything 3 Irregular verbs 3 Free time and sport 2 Words for facts and things 2 Work and the job 1 Greetings and politeness 1 Qualities and relations 1 Colours and qualities 1 Renting a flat 1 Months, tens and what was missing between them 1 Core verbs and their company 1 Person and family 1 Travel and transport 1 School and learning 1 Appointments and arrangements 1

Comprehension questions

3 questions on the text. With each answer the sentence it comes from appears — a question whose answer you cannot find in the text tests nothing.

1. ¿Por qué no vio Irene el partido?

2. ¿Cómo iba el partido en el minuto diez?

3. ¿Cómo terminó el partido?