"El día de engañar en Menorca" has been shared to the blog from the Spanish reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your Spanish listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the Spanish listening exercises section.
Spanish online reading and listening practice – level A2
Many of you are probably gearing up for the practical jokes that take place tomorrow for April Fool’s Day. But did you know that the Spanish-speaking world doesn’t celebrate it? For Spain and Latin America “prank day” is on 28 December: El día de los inocentes.
In fact, that’s not strictly true, there is ONE place that DOES celebrate April Fool’s Day, and that’s the Balearic island of Menorca. Find out why!
This reading and listening exercise can help you practise indefinite adjectives, the preterite, and modal verbs.
If you are a premium member you might also want to try this writing challenge about El día de los inocentes.
Text by Inma Sánchez and audio by Maria Cardoso (using her native Argentinian accent).
Exercise: El día de engañar en Menorca
Listen to the audio, 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.
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Shui is Kwiziq's COO and Head of Languages. She is an experienced technical writer, translator and project manager. Shui grew up bilingual English-Spanish in the UK, completing her studies in London, Madrid and Paris where she now lives. She speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian. Her love of languages and technical knowledge make her a perfect fit for Kwiziq.