A Walk with My Dog: Spanish A1
Read a short Spanish A1 walk with Max through a neighbourhood square. Learn present-tense actions and words for places, movement and body parts.
Pasear con mi perro
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A Spanish A1 observation follows a calm walk with Max around a local square. It models first-person, third-person and reflexive present-tense forms in a concrete setting.
Yo camino despacio y Max camina conmigo. Pasamos por una fuente pequeña. Max mira el agua y una hoja seca. Yo observo sus pasos. Cada vez que se para, yo también me paro.
Llegamos a un banco verde. Me siento un momento y Max se sienta a mi lado. Un niño pasa en bicicleta y una mujer lleva una bolsa amarilla. Max mira la bicicleta y después mira la bolsa. La plaza tiene luz y la gente camina por caminos diferentes.
Al final, volvemos por la misma acera. En casa, Max bebe agua y se lame los labios. Yo miro el reloj: la tarde todavía es clara. Pasear con Max me ayuda a mirar mi barrio con calma.
Ahora piensa en una caminata.
¿Con quién te gusta pasear?
¿Qué ves en una plaza o en una calle?
¿Puedes describir una cosa de color en tu barrio?
About this article
What you'll learn
present-tense walk actions, pasear con, places in a neighbourhood and dog body-part vocabulary
A Spanish A1 observation follows a calm walk with Max around a local square. It models first-person, third-person and reflexive present-tense forms in a concrete setting.
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.
Pasear con Max me ayuda a mirar mi barrio con calma
newWalking with Max helps me look at my neighbourhood calmly
Pasear is an infinitive used as the subject. Con Max means with Max, not walking Max.
It helps you talk about an activity that has a personal effect.
Yo camino despacio y Max camina conmigo
newI walk slowly and Max walks with me
Camino and camina are present forms of caminar. Conmigo means with me.
It gives you two useful present-tense subjects in one sentence.
Max mira el agua y una hoja seca
newMax looks at the water and a dry leaf
Y connects two things that Max observes.
It helps you describe two things in one simple sentence.
Cada vez que se para, yo también me paro
newEvery time he stops, I stop too
Pararse means to stop. The pronoun changes with the subject: se para for Max and me paro for yo.
It lets you compare two people or animals in the same action.
Me siento un momento y Max se sienta a mi lado
newI sit down for a moment and Max sits next to me
Me siento and se sienta are present forms of sentarse for two different subjects.
It helps you contrast yo and él in a useful reflexive verb.
volvemos por la misma acera
newWe return along the same sidewalk
Volvemos is the nosotros form of volver. Por shows the route of the walk.
It introduces a useful we form for talking about a route.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Ears
orejas
ears
Orejas are ears. The text says that Max has long ears.
It gives you a body-part word for describing an animal.
Sidewalk
acera
sidewalk
An acera is the part beside a street where people walk.
It names a place on the route in the story.
Fountain
fuente
fountain
A fuente is a fountain with water in a public place.
It adds a concrete place word to the walk scene.
Bench
banco
bench
A banco is a seat in a square or park.
It helps you describe where someone sits outside.
Lips
labios
lips
Labios are the body parts around the mouth.
It prepares you to understand the last observation about Max.
Licks his lips
se lame los labios
he licks his lips
Lamer means to lick. In se lame los labios, se points back to Max and los labios names the body part. Lamer itself is not a reflexive verb.
It helps you understand a body-part construction without misclassifying the verb.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Present tense: paseo
Esta tarde paseo con Max por la plaza del barrio
This afternoon I walk with Max through the neighbourhood square
Paseo is the yo form of pasear. Con Max means that Max walks with me.
It helps you describe a walk that you share with someone.
Reflexive verb: se sienta
Max se sienta a mi lado
Max sits down next to me
Sentarse means to sit down. In se sienta, se refers to Max as the person who sits down.
It shows a useful reflexive form in the present tense.
Tener: tengo
Tengo un perro marrón
I have a brown dog
Tengo is the yo form of tener. Spanish uses tener to say that you have an animal or an object.
It gives you a basic way to talk about what you have.
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