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Partner
Your ‘partner’ can be your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend. It’s also possible to have a business partner, but in the following text ‘partner’ means the special person in your life.


1. You are walking to your partner’s house. There are two roads to get there. One (a) is a straight road which takes you there quickly, but it is very boring and uninteresting. The other (b) is longer, but it is full of wonderful and interesting things. Which one do you take to get your partner’s house, the short road or the longer, more attractive one">

2. You are walking along the road and you see a lot of roses. There are red roses and white roses. You decide to pick 20 roses for your partner, of any colour combination. How many red roses and how many white roses do you pick? (you can pick all of one colour or any combination of the two)

Write the number of red/white roses:
red roses.
white roses.

3. You finally get to your partner’s house. Someone from your partner’s family answers the door. You can ask them to get your partner, or immediately offer to go to your partner yourself. What do you do">

4. You go up to you partner’s room, but nobody is there. You decide to leave the roses. Do you leave them next to the window or on the bed?

Choose a) or b):

5. Later, it’s time for bed. You and your partner go to sleep in separate rooms. In the morning when its time to wake up you go in their room to say good morning. When you arrive, are they awake or asleep">

6. Now it’s time to go home. Do you take the short, boring road or the longer, more interesting road">

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road = carretera
straight = recto
to pick = elegir, escoger
rose = rosa
awake=despierto
asleep = dormido


Aunque asleep es un adjetivo, normalmente no se usa antes de un nombre.
X an asleep dog X (Lo correcto sera 'a sleeping dog')
Los verbos to awake, to waken y to awaken se emplean generalmente en lenguaje formal o escrito. La forma mas normal en lenguaje hablado es 'to wake'.
'Awake' puede tambier tener la significacin de consciencia de un riesgo o peligro.
- 'Awake to something' Darse cuenta de algo, percibir el peligro.
Straight, adems de la significacin de 'recto' en el sentido geomtrico, puede tener tambin en ingls la misma connotacin que en espaol de 'formal, serio, honrado'.
Observa las siguientes locuciones:

- the straight and narrow el buen camino
- to be straight comportarse honradamente
- to keep a straight face mantener una cara seria
- straight away, straightaway, straight off inmediatamente
- straight out sin vacilar
- to be all straight estar en orden

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