An afternoon in a Madrid community garden
Read an A2 Spanish story about helping in Madrid's municipal community garden programme.
Una tarde en un huerto comunitario de Madrid
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What you'll learn
Community garden vocabulary, sequencing with primero and después, present-tense forms and questions with prefieres.
A clearly fictional visit introduces Madrid's real municipal community garden programme, its associations, seedlings, training and environmental aims.
After reading
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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.
uso temporal y gratuito
newtemporary and free use
The phrase says that something may be used without payment for a limited period.
Useful when reading about public spaces and agreements.
sin ánimo de lucro
newnonprofit
Sin ánimo de lucro describes an organisation whose purpose is not to make profits for owners.
Useful for understanding associations and community projects.
una zona de cultivo
newan area for growing plants
It names the part of a garden used for crops.
Useful for describing how a garden is organised.
por turnos
newtaking turns
Por turnos means that people do the same task one after another.
Useful for organising shared work.
Al final de la tarde
newat the end of the afternoon
It locates an event in the final part of the afternoon.
Useful for ordering events in a story.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Compost
el compost
compost
Compost is decomposed organic material used to improve soil.
Useful vocabulary for gardening and recycling.
Seedling
un plantón
a young plant
A plantón is a young plant that can be planted in the soil.
Useful when talking about starting a crop.
Watering can
una regadera
a watering can
A regadera is a container with a spout used to water plants.
Useful for naming a common gardening tool.
Tools
las herramientas
the tools
Herramientas are objects used to carry out a job.
Useful in work and practical activity vocabulary.
Harvest
una cosecha
a harvest
A cosecha is the produce collected from cultivated plants.
Useful when talking about farming and food.
Neighbourhood
el barrio
the neighbourhood
A barrio is an area of a town or city where people live.
Useful for locating community activities.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Present tense with también
También entrega materiales para apoyar el trabajo de los huertos.
It also provides materials to support the gardens.
Entrega is a present-tense form, and también adds another action.
Useful for adding information about what an institution does.
Indirect question with cómo
La asociación decide cómo participa cada persona.
how each person takes part
Cómo has an accent because it introduces an indirect question.
Useful for reporting how something happens.
First for the first action
Primero llevamos hojas secas al montón de compost.
First we carry dry leaves
Primero marks the action that happens before the others.
Useful for giving instructions in order.
Afterwards for the next action
Después plantamos lechugas en una fila.
Afterwards we plant lettuce
Después connects this action with the one before it.
Useful for telling a process step by step.
Question with prefieres
¿Qué tarea prefieres hacer?
What task do you prefer to do?
Prefieres is the tú form of preferir in the present tense.
Useful for asking another person to choose.
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