👋🏽 I'm Saf. I teach CSEC Spanish at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May–June 2027 exams. In this lesson, watch the questions I ask myself before I write each answer, then ask them yourself on every new situation. Just don't learn my sentences by heart for the exam. Every situation needs its own answer.
Hola mis amigos 👋🏽
A directed situation is only a few lines of English, but it asks for more than it seems to. You have to work out who is writing, who is reading and every detail the answer must give. Then all of that has to fit into one short Spanish sentence.
Today we answer ten real situations together, one question at a time. By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
tell who is writing the message, even when it is your mother, a coach or a stranger
choose tú, usted or ustedes for the person or the people reading it
find every detail a situation asks for, so your answer doesn't stop halfway
join two details in one sentence with y, pero or porque, and see when a short phrase is enough
answer five new situations on your own and check them.
In the full lesson you'll hear me read every answer. Then you write your own answers to five new situations and check them against mine.
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Grab a pen. Here are the situations. ✍🏽