My Sneakers in the Retiro: Spanish story (A1)
Alba wants to break in new blue shoes by walking from the Estanque Grande to the Palacio de Cristal. Her heel hurts, so they stop at the pond. A1 reading.
Mis zapatillas en el Retiro
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What you'll learn
Present tense, querer plus an infinitive, and shoe words: zapatillas, cordones, talón, estrenar.
Alba wants to wear her new blue shoes from the Estanque Grande to the Palacio de Cristal, both in the Retiro in central Madrid. Boats are on the pond. Her heel hurts, so she and Jimena stop at a bench and do not reach the glass palace. She loosens the shoe and goes home. Clear present-tense Spanish for A1.
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.
un parque de Madrid
newa park in Madrid
De links the park with the city where it is located.
Useful for saying where a place is.
Junto al Estanque Grande
newbeside the Great Pond
Junto a means very near; a plus el becomes al.
Useful for locating something near a landmark.
un momento
newfor a moment
Here un momento expresses a short period of time.
Useful for describing a brief pause.
Al final del paseo
newat the end of the walk
Al final de places an event at the last part of an activity.
Useful for closing a short story.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Sports shoes
zapatillas deportivas
sports shoes
Shoes designed for sport or physical activity.
The central clothing word in the article.
Shoelaces
cordones
shoelaces
Thin cords used to fasten shoes.
Useful when describing how shoes close.
Sole
suela
sole
The bottom part of a shoe that touches the ground.
Useful for describing a basic part of a shoe.
Pond
Estanque
pond
A body of still water smaller than a lake.
Useful for understanding a park landscape.
Boats
barcas
boats
Small vessels used to travel on water.
Useful for describing what can be seen on a pond.
Footwear
calzado
footwear
Shoes and other items worn on the feet.
Useful as a general word for shoes.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Tengo for possession
Tengo unas zapatillas deportivas azules
I have blue sports shoes
Tengo is the yo form of tener and states what the speaker has.
Useful for talking about personal belongings.
Las as a direct object
las llevo
I wear them
Las replaces the feminine plural noun zapatillas and goes before llevo.
Useful for avoiding repetition.
Tiene with a singular subject
El parque tiene jardines
the park has gardens
Tiene is the él, ella or usted form of tener; here the singular subject is el parque.
Useful for describing what a place has.
Nos with sentarse
Nos sentamos
we sit down
Nos sentamos is the nosotros form of the pronominal verb sentarse.
Useful for describing a shared action.
A question with tú
¿Qué llevas en los pies para caminar?
What do you wear on your feet for walking?
Llevas is the tú form of llevar, and qué asks for information.
Useful for asking another person about clothing.
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