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The Three-Cornered Hat: read in Spanish (A2)

Read Alarcón’s The Three-Cornered Hat retold in simple Spanish: a MovaReader adaptation of the 1874 comic novella for level A2, with word translation.

El sombrero de tres picos (adaptación, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón)

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Level A2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Pretérito indefinido and imperfecto in narration, the imperfect for portraits and the pluperfect (había nacido, había enseñado), polite address with usted and Su Señoría and usted commands (siéntese, váyase, entréguese), a few subjunctives (aunque quemen la casa, si yo fuera), vocabulary of the mill, the village and local authority (molinero, alcalde, alguacil, corregidor), jealousy and trust

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of El sombrero de tres picos, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s comic novella of 1874, retold in simple Spanish in 14 chapters. Around 1805, near a town in Andalusia, the ugly and clever miller Lucas and his beautiful wife Frasquita receive the town’s gentlemen under their vine, and the old Corregidor Don Eugenio, who is in love with Frasquita, plots with his constable Garduña to get the miller out of the house for one night. Level A2 suits learners who know the past tenses: sentences of about 10 words, the pretérito indefinido and imperfecto, and plenty of dialogue with usted. About 8,000 words.

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