Three Foods from the Market: Spanish A1
Read a short Spanish market and salad story. Practise colors, food words, ser, tener, gustar and simple sequence words.
Tres alimentos del mercado
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What you'll learn
market food, colors, ser and tener, gustar, sequence words, personal questions
At the market, Nora buys a carrot, tomato and broccoli. She learns that a carrot is a root, broccoli has unopened flower buds, and a tomato is botanically a fruit but is often used as a vegetable in cooking.
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Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
Nora va al mercado con su padre.
newNora va al mercado con su padre.
Ir al mercado means to go to the market. Con su padre means with her father.
The phrase introduces a place and companion in a simple story.
En una bolsa ponen una zanahoria naranja, un tomate rojo y un brócoli verde.
newEn una bolsa ponen una zanahoria naranja, un tomate rojo y un brócoli verde.
Naranja is invariable. Rojo and verde agree with the food nouns.
It helps you describe the colors of food.
La zanahoria es una raíz. Crece bajo la tierra.
newLa zanahoria es una raíz. Crece bajo la tierra.
Raíz means root. Crece comes from crecer, to grow.
The phrase gives a simple fact about carrots.
El brócoli tiene muchas flores pequeñas que todavía no están abiertas.
newEl brócoli tiene muchas flores pequeñas que todavía no están abiertas.
Todavía means not yet. No están abiertas means they are not open.
This is a memorable fact about broccoli.
Para la botánica, el tomate es una fruta.
newPara la botánica, el tomate es una fruta.
Botánica is the study of plants. Es una fruta gives the botanical group of the tomato.
It explains an interesting tomato fact.
En la cocina, muchas personas lo usan como verdura.
newEn la cocina, muchas personas lo usan como verdura.
Lo replaces el tomate. Como verdura means as a vegetable.
It shows why tomatoes are often called vegetables in food.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
a root
una raíz
una raíz
Raíz is the part of a plant that grows in the soil.
The word helps explain the carrot fact.
under the ground
bajo la tierra
bajo la tierra
Bajo means under and tierra means ground or earth.
The phrase describes where the carrot grows.
small flowers
flores pequeñas
flores pequeñas
Flores is the plural of flor, flower. Pequeñas agrees with flores.
The phrase explains the broccoli fact.
seeds
semillas
semillas
Semillas is the plural of semilla, seed.
This word explains the tomato's botanical group.
botany
la botánica
la botánica
Botánica is the study of plants.
The word helps explain the tomato classification.
it
lo
lo
Lo is a masculine direct-object pronoun. Here it replaces el tomate.
It helps you avoid repeating tomate.
an adult
un adulto
un adulto
Adulto means adult. Un adulto means one adult.
The word shows who cuts the food in this simple scene.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Ser for naming a category
La zanahoria es una raíz.
La zanahoria es una raíz.
In La zanahoria es una raíz, es is a form of ser and names the object's category.
It helps you say what an object is.
Nora's father likes broccoli
Al padre de Nora le gusta el brócoli.
Al padre de Nora le gusta el brócoli.
Al padre de Nora says who likes the food. Le gusta is singular because brócoli is singular.
The pattern lets you say what someone likes.
then or after
Después
Después
Después means then or after. Later in the text, al final marks the last step.
The word helps you tell actions in order.
Do you like tomato or broccoli?
¿Te gusta el tomate o el brócoli?
¿Te gusta el tomate o el brócoli?
Te gusta is the form for tú. Gusta is singular because the food named is singular.
The question speaks directly to the reader.
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