A visit before the cinema
CEFR A184 words
El sábado Marta va al cine con Leo. La película empieza a las seis. Leo visita antes a su abuela. Ella vive a diez minutos a pie del cine. Marta prefiere el té.
Marta sale de su clase de música a las cinco. Desde la clase hasta la casa de la abuela hay veinte minutos a pie. Leo está allí desde las cuatro.
La abuela tiene café para los dos. En la cocina también hay té. Las entradas están en el teléfono de Leo.
Words you may not know
- a pieon foot
- hastato; as far as
- desdefrom; since
- entradastickets
Questions
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Marta walks from class to the house and immediately on to the cinema. What is her earliest arrival at the cinema?
5:30 — She leaves at five, walks twenty minutes to the house and ten more to the cinema: 5:30 without a visit stop.
The grandmother serves the drink initially prepared for both. Whose stated preference does that fail to match?
Marta alone — Marta prefers tea, but the grandmother initially prepares coffee for both. No preference is stated for Leo; the tea available in the kitchen is not the initial prepared drink.
Marta walks to the house as soon as class ends. How long has Leo been there when she arrives?
Eighty minutes — Marta reaches the house at 5:20. Leo has been there since four, giving an eighty-minute wait before her arrival.
Marta wants to see their tickets when her class ends. Where is the person who has them at that time?
At the grandmother’s house — Tickets are on Leo’s phone. Leo has been at the grandmother’s house since four, so he is there when Marta finishes class at five.
They leave the house at 5:40 and walk straight to the cinema. How much time remains before the film when they arrive?
Ten minutes — A ten-minute walk gives arrival at 5:50, ten minutes before the six o’clock film.
The film now starts at 5:15. Marta leaves class at the usual time and walks via the house without stopping. How late would she reach the cinema?
Fifteen minutes late — She leaves class at five and the two walks total thirty minutes. Reaching the cinema at 5:30 is fifteen minutes after the changed start.