Classroom speaking activity...please help

Question

please today I have to present a speaking activity! in the class so my classmate they are suposed to be my students ok! so the the objective is to talk about making and responding to requests..................... can you lend me---------------? can I borrow.....?

but I don't know how to start I mean, I would like to start with something funny in order to get entertained my students.............. bye thank you and another thing is : to differenciate lend and borrow! something easy please bye thank you so much,.,,,,

Answer 1

I agree with Mariana. In Spanish, there is no verb for "to borrow". We always ask "Would you lend me something." If I want to say that I borrowed something, I say in Spanish that "I took it on loan" - "Lo tomé prestado" or "Lo pedí prestado".

Answer 2

Can you lend me your book? (Can I borrow your book) = Me prestas tu libro?

Answer 3

Marianna and gintar are correct (I believe). Here is a related link that I remember. Also, there is another link where Lazarus (I think) made some comments.

Check this out.

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Here's the link with the Lazarus comment.

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