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Jack and the Beanstalk: read in Spanish (A1)

Read Jack and the Beanstalk in simple Spanish: a MovaReader retelling of Joseph Jacobs’s English fairy tale for level A1, in the present tense, with word translation.

Juan y las habichuelas mágicas (adaptación, Joseph Jacobs)

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense, everyday vocabulary (home, food, farm animals, numbers), polite requests with poder, ir a + infinitive, commands with attached pronouns (tráeme, ásame)

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Joseph Jacobs’s English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk (English Fairy Tales, 1890), retold in simple Spanish. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn everyday words for the home, food and farm animals, polite requests with puede, and ir a with an infinitive.

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