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Don Juan Tenorio: read in Spanish (B1)

Read Don Juan Tenorio retold in Spanish prose: a MovaReader adaptation of Zorrilla’s 1844 verse drama for level B1, with all tenses and word translation.

Don Juan Tenorio (adaptación, José Zorrilla)

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Level B1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Pluperfect, conditional and past subjunctive in narration (si lo hubiera visto, no lo habría creído), reported speech and questions with si, the old courtly vos with vosotros verb forms, vocabulary of carnival, duels, convents and tombs

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of José Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio (1844), retold in Spanish prose in 14 chapters that cover both parts of the drama, with a few famous lines quoted verbatim. Level B1 suits learners who know the past tenses and are learning the subjunctive and the conditional: sentences of about 11 words, the pluperfect, the past subjunctive and plenty of reported speech. You will also meet the old courtly vos with vosotros verb forms and the vocabulary of masks, duels and convents.

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