A coat for a southern winter, Spanish A1
Elena packs summer clothes for her grandmother in the south, but it is cold there. The Earth's tilt explains the seasons.
La Tierra se inclina y cambian las estaciones
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What you'll learn
Present tense, a short question, and words for summer, winter, north, south and the sun.
Elena wants to pack only summer clothes for a visit to her grandmother in the south. The grandmother asks for a coat. Her mother says the Earth goes around the sun and is tilted on an imaginary axis that points the same way during the trip. Right now the north faces the sun more, so days are long and warm, while the south is in winter. Half a year later it is the other way around. In the north, Earth is farther from the sun in summer than in winter. Elena packs the coat and closes the suitcase.
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alrededor del Sol
newaround the Sun
Alrededor de describes movement surrounding another object.
Useful for talking about orbits and routes.
hacia el Sol
newtoward the Sun
Hacia indicates the direction of movement or orientation.
Useful for describing direction.
Unos seis meses después
newabout six months later
Unos makes the number approximate and después places the event later.
Useful for ordering events in time.
más lejos del Sol
newfarther from the Sun
Más lejos de compares two distances.
Useful for comparing the position of places or objects.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
eje imaginario
eje imaginario
imaginary axis
An axis is an imaginary line around which an object rotates.
Useful for understanding how Earth rotates.
inclinado
inclinado
tilted
Inclinado means not completely straight or vertical.
Useful for describing position and angle.
hemisferio
hemisferio
hemisphere
It is one half of a sphere such as Earth.
Useful for locating seasonal changes on the planet.
directa
directa
direct
Direct sunlight reaches a surface at a steeper angle.
Useful for understanding explanations about sunlight.
cantidades parecidas
cantidades parecidas
similar amounts
Parecidas means similar but not necessarily identical.
Useful for making a careful comparison.
distancia
distancia
distance
It is the space between two points or objects.
Useful for describing position and travel.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
está inclinado
está inclinado
is tilted
Estar describes the position of the axis.
Useful for describing the state or position of an object.
recibe luz más directa
recibe luz más directa
receives more direct light
Recibe is the third-person singular present of recibir.
Useful for stating what a place or object receives.
es verano
es verano
it is summer
Ser is used to name the season.
Useful for saying what season it is.
no dependen
no dependen
do not depend
No comes before the conjugated verb to make the sentence negative.
Useful for denying a causal explanation.
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