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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: read in Spanish (A2)
Read Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves retold in simple Spanish: a MovaReader adaptation of Galland’s tale for level A2, in the past tenses, with word translation.
Alí Babá y los cuarenta ladrones (adaptación, Antoine Galland)
Pretérito indefinido and imperfecto in narration, the pluperfect in simple sentences, polite commands with usted, commands with attached pronouns such as ábrete and ciérrate, vocabulary of the house, the market and trade explained in the text
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the tale that appeared in 1717 in Antoine Galland’s French Thousand and One Nights, retold in simple Spanish in 9 chapters. It is written for level A2: sentences of about 10 words, narration in the pretérito indefinido and imperfecto, and a lot of dialogue. You will learn the vocabulary of the house, the market and trade, polite commands with usted and the verb saber in the past.