A Sunday at El Rastro: A1 Spanish Reading
An A1 story about a family visit to Madrid's El Rastro market, with shopping, prices, and opening hours.
Un domingo en El Rastro de Madrid
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What you'll learn
Market, object, price, and time vocabulary; questions with cuánto, simple present forms, and negation with a direct object pronoun.
Leo visits El Rastro with his mother, walks among the stalls, and buys a Madrid postcard. The story includes the official hours, two market locations, and reader questions.
After reading
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Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
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los días festivos
newpublic holidays
Official holidays.
Useful for understanding schedules.
¿Cuánto cuesta esta postal?
newHow much is this postcard?
A question about an item price.
Essential for shopping.
dan las gracias
newto say thank you
A fixed expression for thanking someone.
Useful for being polite.
Antes de salir
newBefore leaving
«Antes de» plus an infinitive marks an earlier action.
Useful for ordering actions.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
stalls
puestos
stalls
Small places where goods are sold.
A basic market word.
postcards
postales
postcards
Picture cards sent or kept as souvenirs.
Useful when traveling.
seller
vendedor
seller
A person who offers goods for sale.
A basic shopping word.
old or antique
antiguo
old or antique
It describes an object from another time.
Useful for market objects.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
«Ir» with they
Leo y su madre van
Leo and his mother go.
A plural subject takes «van».
Useful for saying where a group goes.
Plural present
Los puestos abren
The stalls open.
«Abrir» takes «abren» with they.
Useful for schedules.
«Cuánto» for prices
Leo pregunta: «¿Cuánto cuesta esta postal?»
How much is this postcard?
«Cuánto» asks about an amount.
Useful for asking the price.
Negation with «la»
Ella no la compra
She does not buy it.
«La» replaces «la taza» and comes before the verb.
Avoids repetition.
Asking what time
¿A qué hora prefieres ir?
What time do you prefer to go?
«A qué hora» asks for a time.
Useful for plans.
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