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Spanish Grammar Podcast
In our “Palabras al vuelo” podcast series, you’ll listen to KwizIQ teachers Inma and Silvia’s light-hearted chats in Spanish about fun topics that are focused on useful and interesting vocabulary. To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocabulary and interesting links to explore the topic further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the full learning experience.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: Tareas domésticas 🎧
In today’s podcast, Silvia and Inma talk about their preferences when it comes to doing chores at home. Follow their conversation, where you’ll hear lots of useful vocabulary related to this theme.
Check out our lessons and test yourself with the activities at the end of this page.
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📚 Vocabulary
Here are some of the most interesting words and phrases used in our podcast:
- las tareas domésticas = household chores
- mantener la casa limpia y ordenada = to keep the house clean and tidy
- hacer limpieza = to clean (do the cleaning)
- ¿por dónde empiezas? = where do you start?
- ordenar = to tidy / to put in order
- guardar las cosas = to put away things
- poner cada cosa en su sitio = to put everything in its place
- me da pereza = I can’t be bothered
- quitar el polvo = to dust
- limpiar el suelo = to mop the floor
- barrer = to sweep the floor
- pasar la aspiradora = to vacuum
- la moqueta = carpet
- la alfombra = carpet/rug
- no me gusta nada = I don’t like it at all
- soy más de barrer = I’m more of a sweeping person / I prefer sweeping
- fregar el suelo = to mop (wash) the floor
- limpiar el baño = to clean the bathroom
- el lavabo = the sink / washbasin
- la ducha = shower
- el espejo = mirror
- el inodoro = toilet
- el cesto lleno de ropa sucia = the basket full of dirty clothes
- poner una lavadora = to put a load of laundry on / to do a wash
- darle a un botón =to press a button
- tender la ropa = to hang out the washing
- odio planchar = I hate ironing
- repartirse las tareas = to share out the chores
- qué lista eres, ¿no? = you’re very smart (clever) aren’t you? (sarcastic tone)
For a more extensive list of household chores vocabulary, take a look at our vocabulary list: Household Chores vocabulary
✏️ Practise More!
Try these awesome KwizIQ activities to practise more about chores:
Fill-in-the-blanks:
Tareas domésticas (A2)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only)
Mi turno de limpieza (A2)
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Author info
After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.
Silvia is a multilingual educator with expertise in English, French, and Spanish, and a passion for helping students excel in language learning. After gaining extensive international teaching experience in the UK and other countries, Silvia returned to her hometown of Vitoria in 2019. Since then, she has been sharing her knowledge and love for languages with learners of all levels. With over a decade of experience, Silvia’s creative and dynamic teaching methods make language acquisition both fun and accessible.
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