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2.9: ¡Los gustos y los disgustos!

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    With your foundation of vocabulary related to clothing and descriptions, you can apply opinions to your conversations about what you encounter when shopping and day to day events. We have used “Ser” with cognates and expressions such as “es importante” or “es interesante”, but there are other ways to indicate opinions and to provide more emphasis on whose opinions they are using verbs like gustar.

    Observe the powerpoint Notes 2.2.3 explaining the verbs that work like gustar and complete the notes below.

    La estructura GUSTAR

    Fill in the notes based on what you read in the PowerPoint.

    Gustar means: ____________________________________________________________

    If one thing pleases you use: _______________________________________________

    If one or more activity (VERBS) pleases you, use: ______________________________

    If more than one thing pleases you, use: ______________________________________

    How to form sentences (declarative, exclamatory or interrogative) with gustar and verbs like gustar. Generally, the formula for the three types of sentences placement is:
    _________________________________________________________________________

    ¿Qué recuerdas de los complementos indirectos?

    4. They answer the questions _______________________
    5. They are placed ___________________________.
    6. They are: _______ to me _______ to us
    _______ to you _______ to all of you (Spain)
    _______ to him, her, you (formal) _______ to them, to you all, to you (formal)

    Adding emphasis or clarity to the gustar statements

    You learned the indirect object pronouns above and saw in the examples that we added emphasis by stating “to me”, “to us” or “to Anita.”

    When you use “le” or “les” you do not know exactly to whom something is pleasing so you may opt to add the preposition “a” meaning to and then the name of the person.

    A Teodoro, le gustan los trenes.

    A Silvia, le gusta el perro.

    The preposition “a” before the name of the person is called the personal “a”, as you can imagine it is called this because it is used before the name of a person when referring to a direct object as part of the predicate of the sentence.

    Exercise

    Escribe la forma correcta del verbo gustar en el presente indicativo:

    1. A mí, me __________ las chanclas.
    2. A ti, te __________ la corbata
    3. A Luisa, le __________ cambiar su ropa.
    4. A nosotros, nos _________ el conjunto
    5. A vosotras, os __________ las faldas y los sombreros
    6. A Carmen y a Rosa, les _________ la selección de los trajes de baño.

    How does one ask what someone likes? Generally singular gusta is used but you may use gustan.

    What do you like? _____________________________________________

    Which do you like? ____________________________________________

    Otros verbos que siguen la estructura GUSTAR: Sigue el ejemplo y escribe los verbos en el presente del modo indicativo.

    Disgustar To dislike Disgusta Disgustan
    Doler (o-ue) To hurt    
    Molestar To bother    
    Importar To be of importance, to matter    
    Interesar To be of interest    
    Fascinar To be fascinated by    
    Aburrir To bore    
    Faltar To miss, lack    
    Encantar To really like or be pleasing    

    Unas preguntas—practica los verbos que funcionan como gustar. Contesta las preguntas con oraciones completas y con detalles.

    1. ¿Qué te gusta hacer? __________________________________________________
    2. ¿Qué te gusta mirar? __________________________________________________
    3. ¿Qué te interesa de tu universidad? _________________________________________
    4. ¿Qué te molesta de tu universidad? _________________________________________
    5. ¿Qué te falta de casa? ___________________________________________________
    6. Alguna vez, ¿te falta la tarea? _____________________________________________
    7. ¿Algo te duele hoy? _____________________________________________________
    8. ¿Qué tipo de ropa te encanta? _____________________________________________
    9. ¿Qué tipo de ropa te molesta? _____________________________________________
    10. ¿Cuál tela te disgusta? ___________________________________________________
    11. ¿Cuál tela te parece cómoda? _____________________________________________
    12. ¿Hay un período en la historia que te fascina? _________________________________
    13. ¿Qué es lo que más te importa? ___________________________________________

    This page titled 2.9: ¡Los gustos y los disgustos! is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Elizabeth Silvaggio-Adams and Ma. Del Rocío Vallejo-Alegre (Milne Publishing) .