La Fageda: Business Serving People | Spanish B2
A B2 Spanish reading about La Fageda, its history, products and social mission in Catalonia.
La Fageda: una empresa al servicio de las personas
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What you'll learn
Social enterprise vocabulary, historical narration, purpose clauses and nuanced contrast.
A factual profile with no invented scenes. It follows La Fageda from its 1982 start in Olot through gardening, a rural estate and yogurt production, explaining how commercial activities support work for vulnerable people.
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.
sin ánimo de lucro
newnonprofit
The organization does not distribute profit as its main purpose.
Useful for describing social organizations.
trabajos por encargo
newwork commissioned by others
Work requested and paid for by another organization.
Common in professional contexts.
dar trabajo a
newprovide work for
To create employment for a person or group.
Useful when discussing social impact.
se puso en marcha
newgot underway
Here ponerse en marcha means to begin operating or developing.
Useful for describing the start of a project or activity.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Cooperative
cooperativa
cooperative
An organization owned or managed collectively by its members.
Central vocabulary for this business model.
Commission
encargo
commission
A task formally requested from a person or organization.
Helps explain the first activities of La Fageda.
Nursery
vivero
plant nursery
A place where young plants are grown.
Useful for agriculture and environmental work.
Estate
finca
estate
A rural property with land and buildings.
Helps locate the project.
Vulnerability
vulnerabilidad
vulnerability
A situation of greater exposure to social or economic harm.
Important vocabulary for social policy.
Dairy products
lácteos
dairy products
Foods made mainly from milk.
Useful for describing the cooperative products.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Imperfect with había
Había personas que necesitaban
There were people who needed...
Había presents an existing situation in the past.
Useful for giving background.
Consistir en
no consistía en esperar
did not consist of waiting
Consistir takes the preposition en before an activity.
Useful for defining what something involves.
Purpose with para que
para que muchas personas pudieran
so that many people could
Para que introduces a purpose with a different subject and takes the subjunctive.
Useful for explaining aims.
Aunque with indicative
aunque su propósito no se reduce a vender
although its purpose is not limited to selling
Aunque takes the indicative here because the statement is presented as a fact.
Useful for factual contrast.
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