Sant Pau: A Hospital Like a City | Spanish B1
Read a B1 Spanish text about Sant Pau, Barcelona's modernist hospital complex.
Sant Pau: un hospital que parece una ciudad
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What you'll learn
architecture and healthcare vocabulary, passive structures, and describing a place
This B1 text takes the reader through Sant Pau in Barcelona. It explains who designed the hospital, how its pavilions were arranged, and when it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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.
llevo una libreta
newI carry a notebook
This phrase says that you have a notebook with you.
It helps you talk about things you carry.
como él lo imaginó
newas he imagined it
This phrase compares a present view with someone's idea.
It helps you compare an idea and reality.
Las obras de los primeros diez edificios
newthe construction of the first ten buildings
Here, obras means construction work.
It helps you talk about construction.
rodeados de jardines
newsurrounded by gardens
This phrase describes what is around a place or object.
It helps you describe space.
entre un edificio y otro
newbetween one building and another
This phrase shows movement or a link between two places.
It helps you describe a route.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
site or complex
recinto
site or complex
Recinto means a defined area or a group of buildings.
It helps you talk about large places.
architect
arquitecto
architect
An arquitecto plans how buildings look and are built.
It helps you talk about design.
construction work
obras
construction work
In this text, obras means construction work.
It helps you understand a text about a building.
pavilions
pabellones
pavilions
Pabellones are separate buildings in a larger complex.
It helps you describe the layout of a hospital.
gardens
jardines
gardens
Jardines are spaces with plants where people can walk.
It helps you describe outdoor space.
tunnels
túneles
tunnels
Túneles are passages under the ground.
It helps you talk about links between places.
specialty
especialidad
specialty
Especialidad means a particular area of knowledge or work.
It helps you talk about medicine and jobs.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Fue encargado
El proyecto del hospital fue encargado al arquitecto Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
The project was entrusted to the architect
Fue + participle shows an action received by the subject.
It helps you describe events without naming the doer.
Se construyeron 27
solo se construyeron 27
27 were built
Se + a plural verb can say what was built without naming the people who built it.
It helps you describe a construction result.
Estaban conectados
Los pabellones estaban conectados por una red de túneles subterráneos.
were connected
Estar + participle describes the state of the pavilions in the past.
It helps you describe past conditions.
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