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104 •  Chapter 2: Las personas y las perspectivas 9. (económico) La historia _________________________________ del país es un poco complicada. 10. (próximo) ¿A qué hora es tu _________________________________ clase? 14. Completar las frases Select the two most logical adjectives and write them in the correct form for each sentence. 1. (feo, mejor, amable) Mi _________________________ amigo es una persona _________________________. 2. (diferente, político, guapo) El sistema ______________________ de Argentina es _______________________ del sistema de Canadá. 3. (económico, gordo, delgado) Santa Claus es un personaje 43 _____________________________; no es _____________________________. 4. (bajo, mismo, agradable) Mis papás son _________________, y yo tengo la ________________________ característica. ¡No soy alta! 5. (propio, difícil, importante) Creo que siempre hay momentos ___________________________, y es _________________________ ser paciente. 6. (pequeño, desagradable, bonito) ¿Prefieres los perros grandes o los perros ____________________? Yo prefiero los grandes. Pienso que son más _________________________. Learning objectives check, Lengua 2.1: Ser with descriptive adjectives ❏ I can conjugate the verb ser in the present tense for all subjects. ❏ I can give a few details about someone’s personality. ❏ I can express some defining characteristics of both people and things. ❏ I understand how and when to change an adjective’s gender and number. Lengua 2.2: Stem-changing verbs 1 In Lengua 1.5, we looked at how to conjugate regular -ar , -er , and -ir verbs in Spanish. If you are not feeling comfortable with verb endings quite yet, you may want to review that section before moving on to this one. Here, we will explore stem-changing verbs. When conjugated, these verbs have the same endings you have already learned, corresponding to the subject, and depending on whether they end in -ar , -er , or -ir . However, there is an additional step of changing the stem. 43 character