Archive:Spanish/Television

Chapter 18 (Television)

Television programs

• canal - channel
• programa de concursos - game show
• programa de dibujos animados - cartoon show
• programa de entrevistas - interview program
• programa de la vida real - reality program
• programa de noticias - news program
• programa educativo - eduactional program
• programa musical - musical program
• telenovela - soap opera

Note: Programa is a masculine noun.

Types of movies

• comedia - comedy
• drama - drama
• película de ciencia ficción - science fiction movie
• película de horror - horror movie
• película policíaca - crime movie
• películar romántica - romantic movie

Entertainment adjectives

• cómico(a) - funny
• emocionante - touching
• facinante - fascinating
• infantil - childish
• realista - realistic
• tonto(a) - silly, stupid
• violento(a) - violent

Boring or interesting

• me aburre(n) - it bores me (they bore me)
• me interesa(n) - it interests me (they interest me)

Entertainment terms

• actor - actor
• actriz - actress
• dar - to show
• durar - to last
• empezar - to begin
• terminar - to end

Being specific

• más/menos de - more/less than
• medio(a) * half
• ¿Qué clase de...? - What kind of...?

Verbs

• acabar de... - to have just...
• aburrir - to bore
• doler - to hurt, to ache
• encantar - to love
• faltar - to be missing
• interesar - to interest
• quedar - to fit

Note: Use acabar de... in its conjugated forms when referring to an object that has just finished doing something. Doler is a stem-changing verb, the o changes to ue when conjugated.

Other words

• antes de - before
• casi - almost
• ¿De veras? - Really?
• especialmente - especially
• por eso - therefore
• sobre - about
• ya - already

Seguir (to follow)

Seguir, like hacer has an irregular yo conjugation..

• sigo - I follow
• sigues - you follow (singular)
• sigue - he/she follows
• seguimos - we follow
• seguís - you follw (plural)
• siguen - they follow

Note: The usual, usted and ustedes warning, they both conjugate in the 3rd person form.