A Toy Track from a Chest: Spanish A1
Read a short Spanish A1 activity about building a toy-car track with blocks, a rope and a chest of toys.
Los juguetes del baúl
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What you'll learn
The words baúl, bloques, coche and puente, hay for existence, se cae, and gustar + infinitive.
Alba and Mateo build a track for a toy car. The story models a concrete play plan, the accent in «baúl» and three reader questions.
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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.
¿Qué hay dentro?
newWhat is inside?
«¿Qué hay?» asks what exists in a place.
It is a useful question when you open a box or bag.
Dentro hay bloques, una cuerda, una pelota y dos coches.
newInside there are blocks, a rope, a ball and two cars.
«Hay» does not change when the list has one item or several items.
It helps you name what is in a place.
Baúl lleva tilde.
newBaúl has an accent mark.
The written accent in «baúl» shows stress on the final syllable.
It helps you read and write this word correctly.
Hacen un puente pequeño para el coche.
newThey make a small bridge for the car.
«Hacen» means «they make». «Para» tells what the bridge is for.
It describes a simple building activity.
El coche pasa por debajo del puente.
newThe car goes under the bridge.
«Por debajo de» means «under».
It adds a useful location phrase to the activity.
No pasa nada.
newIt is okay.
Say «No pasa nada» when something small goes wrong and it is not important.
It is a kind response when a toy structure falls.
Empiezan otra vez.
newThey start again.
«Otra vez» means «again».
It is useful when you try an activity one more time.
¿Te gusta construir pistas?
newDo you like building tracks?
«Te gusta» asks one person what they like.
It starts a conversation about toys and activities.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
A chest
el baúl
a chest
«El baúl» is a large box for storing things.
It is the central object in the story.
Blocks
los bloques
blocks
«Los bloques» are pieces for building things.
They are used to make the bridge and tower.
A red car
el coche rojo
a red car
«El coche rojo» is a red toy car.
It is the toy that uses the track.
A rope
una cuerda
a rope
«Una cuerda» is a rope or cord.
It marks the path for the car in the story.
A bridge
el puente
a bridge
«El puente» is a bridge.
The car goes underneath it in the activity.
A tower
la torre
a tower
«La torre» is a tall structure.
The tower of blocks falls and they build again.
A ball
la pelota
a ball
«La pelota» is a ball.
The toy car reaches the ball at the end of the bridge.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Hay for existence
Dentro hay bloques, una cuerda, una pelota y dos coches.
There are blocks, a rope, a ball and two cars inside.
Use «hay» for both singular and plural things that exist in a place.
It is a core A1 pattern for describing what there is.
The form se cae
La torre de bloques se cae.
The tower of blocks falls.
«Se cae» means that something falls over. It uses the third-person form with «se».
It helps describe what happens to an object.
Gustar plus infinitive
Me gusta construir con bloques.
I like building with blocks.
Use «me gusta» plus an infinitive to say that you like doing an activity.
It lets you talk about a preference.
Poder plus infinitive
¿Qué puedes hacer con un baúl de juguetes?
What can you do with a chest of toys?
«Puedes» means «you can», and «hacer» is the following infinitive.
It helps ask about possible activities.
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