Where you are
It is Tuesday, August 18, 8:20 p.m. You are in the kitchen. Cris is at the living room table, working. You just finished the call with your aunt.
Escenario 6 · Rol A
Dani
Your cousin arrives Thursday
Esta ficha es solo tuya. La otra persona tiene objetivos y datos distintos. No intercambien pantallas hasta terminar.
Informal. Eight months sharing this apartment. Breakfast here tomorrow. No boss here. You start. About 9 turns each · 8 minutes.
Your screen only. Don't show it. Don't read from it.
Tu información
Lo que sabes y lo que necesitas
You want
You need a bed for Iván for ten nights, and a plan tonight, before you call your aunt back.
You can't
- You can't give Iván's reason for coming. Your family agreed to say nothing until there is an answer. Outside the family you give the same version: ten days of vacation.
- In your family a hostel or a paid room is an insult. You can't do that, and tonight your aunt will hear about it.
- You asked your other aunt in Floridablanca already. She said no.
Only you know
- You said yes to your aunt on Sunday. So you come into this kitchen with news, not with a favor to ask.
- You know Iván's reason: the notary, on Friday the 21st, for his mom's papers. You also know the answer comes on the 26th, so Iván needs the first nights, not the last ones.
- You have one more option, and you should not offer it yet. Nelson, in 402, owes you a favor: one call tonight, and he can still say no.
If you walk away with nothing
You still have Iván on a bus on Thursday — he already has the ticket — and no plan for that night. You call your aunt tonight with no plan. Tomorrow you have breakfast here, with the same person.
Notas, no frases
Datos duros
| Now | Tuesday, August 18 · 8:20 p.m. |
| Iván | your cousin — your aunt's son — from Cúcuta · bus Thursday the 20th, 4:30 p.m. · ticket bought |
| The nights | ten: Thursday the 20th → Sunday the 30th |
| Friday the 21st | the notary, morning · his mom's papers · the answer: Wednesday the 26th |
| The other days | no plans · out early, back late |
| The mattress | one single mattress at home · place for it: a bedroom floor |
| The apartment | Cabecera · two bedrooms · one couch · one table in the living room |
| Your aunt | her call: tonight |
| Apartment 402 | Nelson · away the 24th–30th · one favor owed, one use only |
| Things left for later | there is a day for them, and Cris knows which |
Palabras para esta situación
Vocabulario
10 palabras| Word | What it is | Here |
|---|---|---|
| a cousin | your aunt's or your uncle's child | Iván — family, and the reason the hostel is an insult |
| a mattress | the flat soft thing you sleep on | your second way out — a bedroom floor, not the couch |
| a ticket | the paper you buy to travel on a bus | already bought — the part of Thursday that nobody can move |
| an aunt | your mother's sister or your father's sister | Iván's mom, and the call you owe tonight |
| an insult | something that makes a person feel small | what a paid bed is in your family — the door you can't take |
| the couch | the long soft seat in the living room | where Iván sleeps in your plan — and the only one in the house |
| the notary | the person who signs and stamps official papers | Friday morning, Iván's real reason — the one word that never leaves this screen |
| to be out all day | to be away from home from morning to night | Iván, from Friday on |
| to owe someone a favor | to have to help someone later because they helped you first | Nelson, apartment 402 |
| to put someone up (put him up) | to let someone sleep in your home for a few days | the ask, in three words |
Ayuda común
Caja de herramientas A2
Blocks 1 [asks], 2, 3 [receives], 4, 5, 6 (it matters · reason locked), 7 (you can say no too) and 8. The whole box today. unload is theirs: ask for it.
Solo para tu rol
Expresiones útiles
8 opciones| Purpose | Form | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| a second bed | He can sleep… There's a mattress. · What about…? | you say where he sleeps and you don't decide it |
| asking why | What's wrong with…? · Why not…? | you ask for the reason instead of repeating your idea |
| not a hostel | Not a hostel — not in this family. · He's out all day — he has… | the hostel and the paid room get the same answer · the second one only when they ask |
| owning it | Sorry — I said yes before… | you name what you did, once, and you move on |
| parking it | Let's leave [what] for… | you park one thing on a day, instead of losing it |
| stopping to get the date | Wait — when? | you stop and you get the date before you answer |
| the call to your aunt | I have to call… tonight. · So: he's coming on…, and he's sleeping…, right? | your real deadline, and then the message she gets |
| the news itself | He's coming on… · He's going to sleep… | a plan that doesn't move, and then the hard part with nothing added |
No tienes carta. Sigue conversando cuando la otra persona abra la suya.
Cuándo terminar
Closing criterion
Each of you says three things out loud. Six in total. Nobody says the other person's three lines.
Dani's screen · your three: where Iván sleeps on Thursday the 20th, and who sleeps where that night · the second bed, and that nobody pays for it · the message for the aunt, out loud, in front of Cris.
Cris's screen · your three: from what time to what time the living room is yours on Monday the 24th · the lease, and the day it has to carry the two names · what you did not decide today, and when you talk about it — Sunday the 23rd, in the kitchen, after lunch.
Together, once: Cris says yes to the aunt's message, or changes one word in it. If Cris changes one word, the two of you agreed on different things.
Four rules:
- Your three lines are yours. If the other one says one of them, it doesn't count — say it again yourself.
- You can check with your own words. So, we're clear then is not one of the six lines, and it isn't cheating either.
- Saying yes is not a line. Yeah, sure, okay, fine and that works are not lines by themselves — and they don't close the
Togethereither. - Nothing goes one way. In the same turn, say what you give and what you get — and the other one says out loud what they give back.
Six lines, or it isn't closed. The easy one to forget is the third one. Skip it and the conversation just stops. It doesn't end.
Success: The whole thing in your first turn — day, nights, the couch · you said it matters and you didn't say why · after a no you asked why, and you learned a reason you did not know · you said out loud what Iván does all day · two options, and nobody pays for a bed · you never said the problem is them, and breakfast tomorrow still works.
Después de hablar
Conversen sobre cómo les fue
- ¿Qué dato del otro no habrían sabido nunca si nadie pregunta? Busquen el turno exacto en el que salió y quién lo sacó.
- ¿Hubo algún momento en que uno de los dos estuvo a punto de decir «el problema eres tú»? ¿Con qué lo cambió?
- Quedó algo sin decidir. ¿Entendieron los dos lo mismo sobre qué es y cuándo se habla? Compruébenlo: díganlo otra vez, cada uno con sus palabras.
- ¿Qué le costó esto a cada uno, y a quién más de fuera de esta cocina le cambia el plan?
Para repasar
Gramática que sostiene este escenario
- Present Continuous para el futuro en Inglés A2: planes concretosa2
Las dos noticias del escenario son planes cerrados con pasaje comprado: "He's coming on…" y "My mom is arriving on…", que es además la frase que la carta obliga a retirar. Y es el tiempo del mensaje que A tiene que decirle a la tía en el cierre: "So: he's coming on…, and he's sleeping…, right?".
- El Primer Condicional en Inglés A2a2
La condición que desbloquea el acuerdo: "If…, I'm OK with it".
- El Futuro con Will en Inglés A2a2
Solo hay un will escrito, y es el que cierra la franja de la mañana: "I'll finish at eleven". El de la firma no está escrito en ninguna ficha: sale solo en cuanto alguien le pone fecha al papel.
- Cuantificadores en Inglés A2a2
Lo que se reparte no es dinero, es un número de noches y una franja de horas: "How many nights?", y la respuesta —diez— contra "the whole morning".
- Conectores en Inglés A2: because, so, although, however, buta2
Nadie cierra la puerta y todos ponen lo suyo con el mismo but: "I'm not saying no, but…".
- Going to en inglés A1a1
La mala noticia se da en futuro planeado, y eso es lo que la hace sonar a hecho consumado: "He's going to sleep…"; y la pregunta que la desmonta: "What's he going to do all day?".
- There is / There are en inglés A1a1
La segunda salida de Dani se ofrece con there is, y por eso suena a inventario y no a exigencia: "He can sleep… There's a mattress".
- Preposiciones de tiempo en inglés A1a1
El reparto se dice con on/at: "He's coming on…", "at nine in the morning". Nunca con by de tiempo, que no está en el registro. (from…to, before y until se usan como léxico: el tema no los cubre.)
- El imperativo en inglés A1a1
Frenar al otro a mitad de una noticia es un imperativo, y aquí ocurre tres veces: "Wait — when?", "Let's leave [what] for…", y los dos de la caja del nivel ("Hold on.", "Let me say that again.").
- Can para habilidad en inglés A1a1
Dani propone dónde duerme y Cris pide otra salida: "He can sleep…", "Can we do it another way?".
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