Nuria wants to enter Santa María del Mar (A1)
A1 Spanish reading. In La Ribera, Barcelona, Nuria wants to go inside the old church Santa María del Mar before the rain. It is Gothic and more than six hundred years old.
Nuria quiere entrar
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What you'll learn
Present tense, querer and hay, to say what Nuria wants to see inside the church.
Nuria and her mother Rosa are in La Ribera, in Barcelona. Nuria wants to enter Santa María del Mar before it rains. The stone church is Gothic, with very tall columns, and it is more than six hundred years old. Rain starts, they go in, and Nuria looks up.
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.
En el centro de mi pueblo
newin the center of my town
A place phrase with en for location.
Useful for saying where something is.
Tiene muchos años de historia
newit has many years of history
Tiene describes age or possession.
Useful for talking about old places.
La puerta principal
newthe main door
A simple noun phrase for a building part.
Useful in descriptions of houses and monuments.
por la mañana
newin the morning
A common time phrase with por.
Useful for saying when you visit or see something.
un lugar perfecto
newa perfect place
A reusable phrase for recommending a place.
Useful for simple opinions about places.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Church
iglesia
church
Iglesia names the main place in the text.
A key word for towns and travel.
Stone
piedra
stone
Piedra is used after de to name a material.
Useful for describing what buildings are made of.
Bell
campana
bell
Campana is the object in the tower that makes sounds.
Useful for churches and town descriptions.
Benches
bancos
benches
Here bancos means seats inside the church, not banks.
Helps avoid a common false friend.
Neighbors
vecinos
neighbors
Vecinos are people who live in the same town or area.
Useful for talking about local people.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Hay for existence
hay una iglesia antigua
there is an old church
Hay means there is or there are.
It is essential for describing what exists in a place.
Ser for description
El edificio es grande y bonito
the building is big and beautiful
Es describes a stable quality of the building.
Useful for simple descriptions with ser.
Present regular action
La gente local la visita todos los domingos
local people visit it every Sunday
Visita is present tense for a regular -ar verb.
Useful for habits and repeated actions.
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