What is in the Court of the Lions?
Practise Spanish hay and no hay at A1 while discovering the fountain, lions, water and poetry in the Alhambra.
¿Qué hay en el Patio de los Leones?
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A short A1 visit to the Court of the Lions uses hay to identify its central fountain, twelve marble lions, water channels, arches and engraved poetry.
En el centro hay una fuente de mármol blanco. Su gran taza tiene doce lados.
Debajo de la taza hay doce leones de mármol. Los leones parecen sostener la taza y el agua sale por sus bocas.
Hay agua en la fuente y en los canales del suelo. Los canales forman una cruz en el patio.
Alrededor del patio hay una galería. La galería tiene muchos arcos y columnas finas.
En el borde de la taza hay versos de un poema de Ibn Zamrak. Las palabras forman parte de la decoración.
No hay doce figuras iguales. Hay diferencias en sus caras, sus patas y su pelo.
El palacio es del siglo XIV. Este espacio es obra del sultán Muhammad V.
¿Qué hay en el centro del patio y qué ves tú alrededor? ¿Qué león te gusta más? ¿Hay una fuente famosa en tu ciudad?
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What you'll learn
hay, no hay, ¿hay...?, Alhambra place words and simple monument vocabulary
A short A1 visit to the Court of the Lions uses hay to identify its central fountain, twelve marble lions, water channels, arches and engraved poetry.
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.
En el centro
newin the centre
En el centro locates something in the middle of a place.
Useful for describing rooms, squares and pictures.
Debajo de la taza
newunder the basin
Debajo de indicates a lower position in relation to another object.
Useful for giving clear locations.
Alrededor del patio
newaround the courtyard
Alrededor de describes a position surrounding a place or object.
Useful for describing layouts and routes.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
fountain
fuente
fountain
A structure from which water flows.
Common word for parks, squares and monuments.
marble
mármol
marble
A hard stone often used in sculpture and architecture.
Useful in museums and descriptions of historic buildings.
gallery
galería
covered gallery
Here galería is a covered passage along a building or courtyard.
Useful for architecture and museum spaces.
arches
arcos
arches
Curved architectural structures over an opening.
Useful for describing historic buildings.
lines of verse
versos
lines of verse
Lines that form part of a poem.
Useful for literature and inscriptions.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
A singular object with hay
hay una fuente
there is a fountain
Hay introduces the existence of one object and does not change form.
The basic pattern for saying what exists in a place.
Plural objects with hay
hay doce leones
there are twelve lions
Hay keeps the same form before a plural noun.
Shows that Spanish hay works with both one and many objects.
Negative existence with no hay
No hay doce figuras iguales
there are not twelve identical figures
No placed before hay says that something does not exist in the stated form or number.
Essential for contrasting what exists with what does not.
Question with qué hay
¿Qué hay en el centro del patio y qué ves tú alrededor?
What is in the centre of the courtyard, and what do you see around it?
Qué hay asks which thing or things exist in a place.
A direct question for asking about an unfamiliar place.
Yes or no question with hay
¿Hay una fuente famosa en tu ciudad?
Is there a famous fountain in your city?
Putting hay in a question asks whether something exists.
Useful for asking about services, objects and places.
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