An Evening at Cine Doré | Spanish A1
Read about a visit to Madrid's historic Cine Doré and learn basic Spanish for talking about films and cinemas.
Una tarde en el Cine Doré
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What you'll learn
Cinema vocabulary, hay, estar for location, present forms of ver and querer, and the contraction al.
A short visit explains where Cine Doré is, when its current building appeared, what rooms it has, and what Filmoteca Española presents there.
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.
vamos al Cine Doré
newwe are going to Cine Doré
Vamos means "we are going". Here it describes a shared trip to the cinema.
Use it to talk about going somewhere together.
Desde 1989
newsince 1989
Desde marks the starting point of an action or state that continues later.
Use it to say when a period began.
música en directo
newlive music
En directo means that the music is performed live during the event.
Useful for concerts and film screenings with musicians.
Después hablamos de la historia
newafterwards we talk about the story
Después places this action after watching the film.
Use it to describe a sequence of activities.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Screening room
la sala de proyecciones
screening room
A sala de proyecciones is a room where films are shown.
A key place word for talking about cinemas.
Building
El edificio
building
Edificio is a masculine noun, so it is used with el.
Useful for describing places in a town or city.
Outdoor screening room
La sala exterior
outdoor screening room
Exterior here describes a room outside the main enclosed part of the building.
Useful for contrasting indoor and outdoor spaces.
Lobby
el vestíbulo
lobby
A vestíbulo is the space just inside the entrance of a building.
Useful for finding your way around public buildings.
Display cases
vitrinas
display cases
A vitrina is a glass case used to display objects.
Useful for talking about exhibitions and museums.
Bookshop
una librería
bookshop
A librería sells books. A biblioteca is a library.
Useful for distinguishing two commonly confused place words.
Tickets
las entradas
tickets
Entrada can mean a ticket that allows access to an event.
Essential for visits to cinemas, theatres and museums.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Estar for location
Está en la calle Santa Isabel
is on Santa Isabel Street
Use estar to locate a person or place: está en Madrid.
It helps you say where something is.
Hay for existence
Hay dos salas interiores y una sala exterior
there are two indoor rooms and one outdoor room
Hay says that something exists or is present, and its form does not change before singular or plural nouns.
Use it to list what a place contains.
Vemos: the nosotros form
vemos una película española
we watch a Spanish film
Vemos is the present-tense nosotros form of ver.
Useful for saying what you do together with other people.
Quieres: e changes to ie
quieres ver
you want to watch
In quieres, the verb querer changes e to ie. It is followed here by the infinitive ver.
Use it to ask another person what they want.
Al: a plus el
al cine
to the cinema
Al is the required contraction of the preposition a and the article el.
Useful when describing movement to a masculine place noun.
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