Corrected Dictation Exercises Units 2 & 3 — English Grammar

Unit 2: Dictation — WITH

Unit 2: Dictation — WITH
He dedicated his victory to his friends, as they had supported him throughout the judo competition. The prize was a trophy, which weighed four kilos, granted by the government of the Generalitat. Then they went to celebrate by eating sausage sandwiches and other embotits (cured meats); for dessert they asked for chocolate cake and nougat.

Since I found out I was pregnant, I could not sleep; my nerves were frayed and I often had to run to the toilet to vomit. Not that I did not want the baby—of course I wanted it—but I wondered how I could provide for it, sewing clothes day and night. I did not think I could manage without crying and needing comfort.

Úrsula was the daughter of the Romanian consul. Her fiancé was a naive man who worked as a night porter at the Liceu and as a postman in the morning. He was given a necklace with emeralds and rubies by a jeweler who had a few shops in the old city. When the consul found out, he slapped him, leaving him stunned.

Joan was a scrupulous, careful and incorruptible man. He lived in a small town in Girona where the north wind blows and people eat the best mussels and the finest tuna offshore. He was a lawyer and worked in two offices. During his free time he took long rides up the mountain until exhausted.

Unit 3: Gender and Number of Nouns and Adjectives

Unit 3: Gender and Number of Nouns and Adjectives
Albert, a neighbor, and another neighbor were very original: one was an archaeologist and the other a psychologist. They were called Marcel and Marcel and lived with a dog—a very ugly dog. They had the habit of going for walks on the outskirts of town, down a slope so steep that dust rose as if at a hundred kilometers per hour.

Claude loved desserts most of all, especially cream profiteroles with hot chocolate, but now he could not eat them because, after becoming a doctor, his tests had forbidden them. Nor could he abuse pepper, salt, or pulses. For him this was the end of the world, because he liked them a lot.

She was a precocious child for her age, and everyone knows that precocious children are not always well regarded. Nevertheless, she was a happy girl: autonomous and fully capable of living alone. She worked in a publishing house specializing in sports books, so she had canoed in calm waters and among very dangerous rocks.

I never know whether to say "disc" or "disco," and I hesitate when I describe adjectives: crazy, ugly or "stockings." I invent tricks to remember words, such as this sentence: some Russian men, wearing robes and with blond hair, were fat because they ate too much rice and cake. These tricks are quite effective and were shown by a Catalan master.