Snow in winter
On a winter morning Inés steps out to touch the snow. On her warm hand the white snow turns back into a drop of water.
Nieve en invierno
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What you'll learn
Present-tense Spanish for a winter morning: querer, caer, and nieve, hielo, agua, and calle.
Inés wants to know if the snow on her street is really water. A weak sun makes it bright, her shoe slides a little, and the snow on her warm hand melts into a drop.
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.
agua blanca
newwhite water
Agua blanca places adjective blanca after noun agua.
Describes snow in simple words from the opening paragraph.
en invierno
newin winter
En invierno names the season when snow falls.
Repeats in the text about snow and animals.
van despacio
newthey go slowly
Van despacio is ir in third person plural + adverb despacio.
Important safety note on snowy streets.
con cuidado
newcarefully / with care
Con cuidado is an adverbial phrase after caminar.
Describes how people walk on snow.
les encanta la nieve
newthey love the snow
Les encanta works like gustar: les + encanta + la nieve.
Key emotion of children in the play section.
muñecos de nieve
newsnowmen
Muñecos de nieve literally means snow dolls or snowmen.
Typical winter game from the article.
bolas de nieve
newsnowballs
Bolas de nieve are balls of snow for playing.
Second winter game children do in the text.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Snow
nieve
snow
Nieve is the main topic; feminine noun.
Central word of the title and all sections.
It snows
nieva
it snows
Nieva is third-person form of nevar in the present.
Explains when everything turns white on the street.
Cold
fría
cold (fem.)
Fría uses estar + adjective for snow temperature.
Describes how snow feels in the opening paragraph.
Skis
esquís
skis
Esquís is the equipment for skiing on snow.
Key word from the skiing section.
Mountains
montañas
mountains
Montañas are where skiers go downhill.
Appears in the sentence about skiing.
Ice
hielo
ice
Hielo is frozen water; penguins live where there is ice.
Appears in the final animals section.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Ser: es
La nieve es agua blanca
snow is white water
Es + noun/adjective defines what nieve is (agua blanca).
Ser for describing what snow is.
Cuando + present
Cuando nieva, todo es blanco
when it snows, everything is white
Cuando nieva means when it snows; then todo es blanco in the present.
Shows cause and result in the winter scene.
Encantar: les encanta
A los niños les encanta la nieve
children love the snow
A los niños les encanta: encantar agrees with la nieve; les refers to niños.
Encantar/gustar pattern from the children section.
Reflexive: se ríen
Se ríen y juegan mucho
they laugh and play a lot
Se ríen is the reflexive form of reír; juegan is a regular verb in the same person.
Reflexive verb pattern in the play section.
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