Grammar notes for Unit 5, lesson 5 Spanish

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New Vocab:
pasear - to walk, as in to walk a dog
empujar - to push?
jalar - to pull?
arreglar? - to fix or work on, like work on a bicycle? arregla la bicicleta.
la medicina - medicine
glass of water - vaso de agua
alguien - someone
algo - something

Grammar:
andar en la bicicleta - ride a bik

is giving something to someone else
 X le está dando (sometimes el or la) Y a el/la Z
ex. El hombre le está dando la guitarra a la niña.
OR
X le está dando a Z Y
ex. Alguien le está dando al hombre un plato de comida

is getting something from someone else
X está recibiendo (sometimes el or la) Y de el/la Z
ex. El niño está recibiendo la guitarra de la mujer.


Unknown:
1. El hombre está cargando al niño.
carry, maybe - walking with boy on his shoulders in the picture.

2. La niña está agarrando un plato
she;s picking up an empty plate from a stack of plates on a table. Getting herself a plate? Fixing a plate - is it related to arreglando?  Arranging the plates?  Checking on this. Google translate says grab, gripping, getting a hold of

3. past tense of dar?
El hombre le dio un vaso de leche a la mujer
for when he's already given it to her.


How did it go?
Pretty well. I remembered much of this the first time around, I liked it well enough.

Was anything tricky or difficult?
Arreglar vs. agarrar kept tripping me up
Arreglar - to fix  agarrar - to grab

remembering the reflexive 'le' before the verb 'dar.'

What can help?
Agarrar - My mnemonic: a caveman, Garr,  coming into a house and pointing to every object he finds. Every time he sees one he goes 'Ah! Garr's!'  and grabs it.

Arreglar - The group of men are sitting around trying to fix this weird, crazy bicycle in rainbow colors and pinwheels and such. And every time they try something and it fails, they are glaring at the thing like that will fix it instead.