"Disfraz de Calavera Mexicana para Halloween" has been shared to the blog from the Spanish reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
Spanish online reading and listening practice – level B2
It’s Halloween and also time to celebrate the Day of the Dead! This reading and listening exercise shows you how to recreate the make-up for the Mexican Día de Muertos skull, also known as Catrina. It can help you practise relative clauses with the Indicative and the Subjunctive.
Exercise: Disfraz de Calavera Mexicana para Halloween
Watch the video, then read the transcript. Click any phrase for the translation and links to related grammar lessons which you can add to your Kwiziq notebook to practise later.
The woman in this video speaks pretty quickly in the introduction! If you would like to slow down her speech, click the cog symbol below the video, then choose speed > 0.75. Note that after the 1min26 mark she stops speaking so fast, but keep it slowed to 0.75 if it makes it more comfortable for you.
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