Pan con tomate: A1 Spanish Reading
Read an A1 Spanish morning routine about pan con tomate, a typical food of Catalonia made with bread, tomato, olive oil, and salt.
Pan con tomate por la mañana
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A child prepares pan con tomate with a parent. The text names its four simple ingredients, notes that the dish is typical of Catalonia and is also called pa amb tomàquet, and ends with three personal questions.
El pan con tomate es típico de Cataluña. Allí también se llama pa amb tomàquet. Para hacerlo, frotamos medio tomate maduro sobre una rebanada de pan. Después ponemos un poco de aceite de oliva y sal.
Mi padre corta el pan y yo lavo los tomates. Tenemos dos tomates rojos y una botella pequeña de aceite. No necesitamos muchas cosas.
Primero preparo mi rebanada. Me gusta poner mucho tomate. Mi padre prefiere poca sal. Mi hermana quiere queso encima. Cada persona elige su propia rebanada.
En la mesa hay leche, agua y fruta. Yo tomo una pera. Mi padre toma café. Cada persona elige lo que quiere comer.
Después de comer, recogemos la mesa. Yo llevo mi plato a la cocina y mi hermana limpia las migas. Luego nos lavamos los dientes.
El domingo quiero preparar pan con tomate otra vez. Ahora sé que es una comida típica de Cataluña y que pa amb tomàquet es otro nombre para el mismo plato.
¿Te gusta el pan con tomate?
¿Qué pones en una rebanada de pan?
¿Prefieres tomate, queso o solo aceite?
About this article
What you'll learn
Breakfast vocabulary, food choices with gusta and prefiere, regular present-tense verbs, and the expression pa amb tomàquet
A child prepares pan con tomate with a parent. The text names its four simple ingredients, notes that the dish is typical of Catalonia and is also called pa amb tomàquet, and ends with three personal questions.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
pan con tomate para el desayuno
newpan con tomate for breakfast
Pan con tomate is bread with rubbed tomato, olive oil, and salt.
The phrase names the dish and its four simple ingredients.
Es una comida sencilla
newit is a simple meal
Sencilla means simple. It agrees with comida, a feminine noun.
Use it to describe food without complex details.
El pan con tomate es típico de Cataluña
newpan con tomate is typical of Catalonia
Típico de means characteristic of. Here it links the dish with Catalonia.
The phrase gives a verified cultural fact about Spanish food.
también se llama pa amb tomàquet
newit is also called pa amb tomàquet
Pa amb tomàquet is the Catalan name for pan con tomate.
The phrase shows another name for the same dish.
frotamos medio tomate maduro sobre una rebanada de pan
newwe rub half a ripe tomato onto a slice of bread
Frotamos means we rub. Rebanada means a slice of bread.
The phrase describes one simple preparation step.
Cada persona elige su propia rebanada
neweach person chooses their own slice
Elige means chooses. It is the he, she, or it form of elegir.
Use the phrase to talk about a personal choice.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Slice
rebanada
a slice of bread
Rebanada is a thin slice of bread or another food.
It is useful when ordering or describing food.
We rub
frotamos
we rub
Frotamos is the we form of frotar, to rub.
The verb is useful for simple food-preparation actions.
Olive oil
aceite de oliva
olive oil
Aceite de oliva means olive oil.
It names a common ingredient in many dishes.
Crumbs
migas
crumbs
Migas are small pieces of bread left on a table.
The word is useful for chores after a meal.
We brush our teeth
nos lavamos los dientes
we brush our teeth
Nos lavamos los dientes means we brush our teeth. It uses the reflexive verb lavarse.
The phrase is useful for describing a daily routine.
Pa amb tomàquet
pa amb tomàquet
pa amb tomàquet
Pa amb tomàquet is the Catalan name for pan con tomate.
It introduces a food name from another language of Spain.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Preparamos: we prepare
preparamos
we prepare
Preparamos is the we form of the regular verb preparar. The ending -amos marks we.
The card shows a useful form of a regular -ar verb.
I like to add lots of tomato
Me gusta poner mucho tomate
I like to add lots of tomato
Me gusta plus an infinitive means that someone likes doing something. Me means to me.
Use this construction to talk about preferences.
Do you prefer tomato, cheese, or only oil?
¿Prefieres tomate, queso o solo aceite?
do you prefer tomato, cheese, or only oil?
Prefieres is the you form of preferir. The e changes to ie: preferir, prefieres.
The question helps ask another person about a choice.
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